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Painting 15mm
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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.

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My armies!
28mm Ancients:Early Imperial Romans (Roman invasion of Britainnia and Germainia with segmented armour) Legio II Augusta along with Praetorian Guard
15mm ww2: British infantry company (ussaully, thought I got a company of tanks)
28mm Napleonics: Austrain- 1st Landwehr (Silly hats)

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"They were the first Greeks, as far as I know, to charge at a run, and the first to dare look without flinching at Persian dress and the men who wore it; for until that day came, no Greek could even hear the word Persian without terror." -Herodotus


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(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 guysWink

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. Wink
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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!
My armies!
28mm Ancients:Early Imperial Romans (Roman invasion of Britainnia and Germainia with segmented armour) Legio II Augusta along with Praetorian Guard
15mm ww2: British infantry company (ussaully, thought I got a company of tanks)
28mm Napleonics: Austrain- 1st Landwehr (Silly hats)

History lover

"They were the first Greeks, as far as I know, to charge at a run, and the first to dare look without flinching at Persian dress and the men who wore it; for until that day came, no Greek could even hear the word Persian without terror." -Herodotus


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