It has taken me a while to finish this and frankly I'm hardly doing anything on the hobby front lately.
Nonetheless here's my Colour Guide on how I do my Fallschirmjäger.
Step 1: As before the figure was undercoated using Vallejo Black Surface Primer.
The trousers were done using my recipe for Feldgrau as detailed in my 'Late War German Colour Guide'. For the Jumpsmock I used:
A VMC German Field Grey + VMC Green Grey (~2/1)
B VMC German Field Grey + VMC Green Grey (~1/2)
C VMC Green Grey
D VMC German Camo Beige
Step 2: Next in line were peaked cap and binoculars. I know it's a Heer peeked cap but I urgently wanted to have a Fallschirmjäger NCO sporting one.
Schirmmütze/ Peaked cap
A VMC German Luftwaffe Uniform
B Foundry Late Field Grey 78B
C Foundry Late Field Grey Light 78C
Feldstecher/ Binoculars and yellow piping
A Citadel Foundation Tausept Ochre
B Foundry Base Sand Shade 10A
C Foundry Base Sand 10B
D Foundry Base Sand Light 10C
Step 3: Paraphernalia like drinking cup, bread bag, Zeltbahn and the black leather on boots and belts were done like in the 'Late War German Colour Guide'
Step 4: The national emblem was done using a light grey. The ammunition pouches as most other German equipment came in myriads of different shades.
Munitionstaschen/ Ammunition pouches
A Foundry Drab Shade 12A
B Foundry Drab 12B
C Foundry Drab Light 12C
Step 5: For skin and metal parts I used the same recipes (well I guess you know by now...) detailed in the 'Late War German Colour Guide'
Again I hope this little guide was of some help for some of you. If there are any questions left feel free to ask in the comments.
Thank you for reading!
Nice guide and great looking figure!
ReplyDeleteGreat tutorial Nick.
ReplyDeleteChristopher
Haha...Nice blog name!!!
ReplyDeleteIt is such a treat to see how you paint your models Nick, thank you for taking the time to share.
ReplyDeleteVery nice tutorial!
ReplyDeleteAnother great and useful guide :)
ReplyDeleteI will use this in the future for sure... it's likely I won't get near your excellent standard!
MASTERCLASS, every time.
ReplyDeleteWonderful! Thanks for the tutorial.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant tutorial!
ReplyDeleteThanks
Matt
Very nice tutorial again! And a great looking end result as well!
ReplyDeleteGreat tutorial!
ReplyDeleteVery helpful tutorial.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks!
Stupendous painting! I could never paint this neatly, or well. :-)
ReplyDeleteGreat paint job and tutorial too. I'm always happy to read any tutorial and pick the minds of better painters than me. Thanks Moiterei!
ReplyDeleteSpitzen-qualität! Du bist ein echter Profi!!!
ReplyDeleteDo you use washes on the uniform?
ReplyDeleteHi Rick,
Deletesorry I've totally missed your question. No, I don't use washes for the uniform.
Cheers,
Nic