More Success!Last night I decided to get the basic uniform (base color shirt & pants. So I mixed up some of my "Marine Green" and got to work. Surprisingly it only took a few hours for the 200+ mini's involved. I then started in on some of the helmets.
In doing some more research I noticed a aberration in my previous paint scheme for the brown camo. In one picture I used (from Osprey) the brown camo has some green spots in it. I was using Battlefront's 2nd Armored ETO camo uniform as a base to do my Marines. It also has green in it. But the more I looked, the more I found the brown camo without the green in it. I don't know if the USMC had variations in their camo (it appears the camo for the USMC para's is different from the "regular" Marines); or if different contractors produced variations; or maybe the single Osprey drawing is wrong (Osprey makes more errors than I care to admit). Anyway...I decided to go with the all "brown" brown camo.
My new colors for the Marine camo uniforms are as follows:
Brown Camo
Base: Vallejo German WWII Beige-Camo (faded)
Color 1: Vallejo US Field Drab (medium patches - faded)
Color 2: Vallejo German Camouflage Orange Ochre (medium patches - faded)
Color 3: Vallejo Flat Brown (small patches - faded)
Its not a very good pic, but the pic above has this pattern on the figures helmets.
Happy with my new camo, I went to work on my scouts and snipers. After completing the first two camouflage colors I became concerned about my somnambulistic painting skills and after cleaning my brush, drifted off into the land of Nod.
More painting tomorrow!
Tim, they call him...
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