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Painting 15mm - 40knerd99 - 03-10-2012
Has anyone got any advice for painting 15mm infantry? Painting the armour is easy enough, but painting infantry looks hard. I have yet to do so, but I'm getting a rifle company and any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks for reading guys
RE: Painting 15mm - Agincourt - 04-10-2012
(03-10-2012, 03:32 PM)40knerd99 Wrote: Has anyone got any advice for painting 15mm infantry? Painting the armour is easy enough, but painting infantry looks hard. I have yet to do so, but I'm getting a rifle company and any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks for reading guys
My (do as I say not as I do) advice for wargaming figures is to keep things simple. Carefully paint your base colours on, so maybe for a rifle company you paint uniform green, boots black, belt and packs black/brown, flesh paint a flesh colour, etc. Just the basic stuff... but do it tidy.
Then get brown ink, water it down about 50/50 and paint over everything. Let it dry and apply another coat if needed. This is enough for eyes, mouth, shading etc.
I would stop at that for 15mm.
When you have painted your entire army, you might find some time to come back and add a bit of dry brush highlight.
For 25mm then a bit of dry brush highlight makes all the difference.
RE: Painting 15mm - 40knerd99 - 14-10-2012
thanks for the advice. the worst part, I have discovered is painting the face- It was trouble enough with 28mm, but 15mm is almost impossible!