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1. #Army painter strong tone wash skin
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Painting isn’t part of the hobby I would necessarily choose to do – I would much prefer to be playing games.

#Army painter strong tone wash full

Here's the full Type B squad of 13 men with an LMG section.I have probably mentioned several times in the last that I am something of an enforced painted – I paint because I really don’t like the look of bare plastic and metal on the tabletop. I initially felt the highlights were too strong (under my daylight bulb), but they looked balanced on the games table. Some guides recommended 50/50, but that looked too bright. I went over the raised areas with the original base colour - English Uniform - for much of it, then touched up the very highest points with a 75/25 mix of English Uniform and Pale Sand. I decided to press on with highlights to order to make the details pop out better. For my purposes, grubby is good, so this scheme seems promising. At a certain point in the story they clean up and wash their kit and they resemble a light khaki.

#Army painter strong tone wash skin

The actors looked really grubby with their clothes and skin darker than what I achieved above. I recently watched Oba: The Last Samurai, a biopic of IJA troops on Saipan who refused to surrender after the war was over. I was just using the wash, mind you, not the dip.Įven like this they looked pretty good, if you consider grubby to be good. Here's how they looked after the base colours were blocked in:Īfter the wash dried for over 24 hours the figures had a nice rich olive tone, and a tad glossy.

There's probably another hue, but my eyes gave out after a while and, as expected, the Army Painter Strong Tone would deepen the hue substantially. After a week of research on the forums and half an hour eyeballing a full Vallejo paints rack at Wira Hobbies, it seems that Vallejo Model Colour 921 English Uniform comes closest. I'll probably do at least one unit in Vallejo 923 for the China theatre, but the bulk will be in English Uniform green.

#Army painter strong tone wash free

Since there's a consensus that Japanese uniform colours varied over the course of the war due to supply issues and wear and tear, I think I have a pretty free hand within the khaki to green spectrum. It happens to be similar to the khaki worn by Chinese troops of that period, too. I've seen a few people mention that it's closer in colour to the uniforms used in the invasion of China in the late 1930s. There's plenty of debate on forums on whether it's useful or not, with the 'I don't care' camp largely favouring its usage. Vallejo's Model Colour 923 Japanese Uniform WWII is rather yellow and didn't bear much resemblance to those reference pictures. I wanted my Japanese to have the green-hued uniforms that one can see in Osprey Warrior 95 Japanese Infantryman 1937-45 and Ritta Nakanishi's excellent, but hard to find, books on Japanese uniforms and arms. Nakanishi's Japanese Infantry Arms In World War II Hopefully others may find it helpful, too. It'll be a rather long project, so this post is to remind myself what paints I used for the first lot. I'm building my Imperial Japanese Army initially for the Malaya campaign, with an eye towards later use in the South Pacific and the Sino-Japanese War. My IJA LMG section had their first day out last weekend with a try out of Five Men at Kursk