Painting snow camo and Basing , Vehicles E.g. Tips ?

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**The Noise Marine**

I have Decided To go with Death korps , I was originally going ot paint em' Muddy but my friend is going to do 'snow Tau' and we thought it would be cool if i Did IG ( I've always wanted death korps ) So I was just asking for tips on snow camo , basing , and vehicles ( how to do them ).

Cheers !

**The Noise Marine**

This is kind of what Im aiming for But with a White coat and grey trousers

**SilverMK2**

Snow is pretty cool. Depending on what kind of snow camo you want to do (as there are lots of different types and colours

).

Snow camo ranges from pure white, to white with greys, white with black, white with greens, white with blues, etc.

Personally I would be tempted to go with a white overcoat, with some mid grey broken patterning, washed with an extremely weak blue wash (just to give the white some depth).

Kind of like this:

I would then go with the reverse colouration for the armour (mid grey armour with broken white patterning).

I would finish with black boots and probably boltgun metals.

For vehicles, I would probably use a scheme similar to this:

But using white, mid grey and light grey instead of the green. If you have an airbrush, masking tape and these colours will make your job very easy

If you don't you could try making a feathered edge to your patterns using a very soft brush with a small amount of paint on it to drag away from the centre of the colour block.

**modelling-mayhem**

For snow basing you could check out my blog on Dakka. If you like my basing I will run a quick tut to explain how I achieved this.

Regards

MM

**The Noise Marine**

SilverMK2 wrote:
Personally I would be tempted to go with a white overcoat, with some mid grey broken patterning, washed with an extremely weak blue wash (just to give the white some depth).

I will probaly do this White over coat ( Maybe grey dots or patches ) with grey trousers ( Codex grey or fortress grey ) Black ammo webbing , boots and gloves , Cream or brown gas mask ( bleached bone or Bestial brown ) Boltgun metal helmets or same as overcoat .

Does that seem good ?

modelling-mayhem wrote:For snow basing you could check out my blog on Dakka. If you like my basing I will run a quick tut to explain how I achieved this.

Regards

MM

Very excellent Basing there , I dont really like Cadians because of the faces , I like Death korps because I like the WW1-WW1 German feel

**modelling-mayhem**

I dont like Cadians due to the faces also. Hence the swap out to PigIron heads with masks. The Death Korps mini's are awesome but Forgeworld - althought they make fantastic mini's - are even more over priced than GeeDubb!

Thanks for the kind comment with regard to the bases.

Regards

MM

**SilverMK2**

The Noise Marine wrote:
SilverMK2 wrote:
Personally I would be tempted to go with a white overcoat, with some mid grey broken patterning, washed with an extremely weak blue wash (just to give the white some depth).

I will probaly do this White over coat ( Maybe grey dots or patches ) with grey trousers ( Codex grey or fortress grey ) Black ammo webbing , boots and gloves , Cream or brown gas mask ( bleached bone or Bestial brown ) Boltgun metal helmets or same as overcoat .

Does that seem good ?

I would go with fortress grey trousers in that case. I would also recommend cardonite grey to use instead of black, then wash the black wash to give you the black colouration. I'd take the bone gas mask and do the helmets the same colour as the coats.

What colour would you be doing the body armour? As I say, using the inverted colours of the coat could look quite good.

**AvatarForm**

SilverMK2 wrote:Snow is pretty cool. Depending on what kind of snow camo you want to do (as there are lots of different types and colours ).

Snow camo ranges from pure white, to white with greys, white with black, white with greens, white with blues, etc.

Personally I would be tempted to go with a white overcoat, with some mid grey broken patterning, washed with an extremely weak blue wash (just to give the white some depth).

Kind of like this:

I would then go with the reverse colouration for the armour (mid grey armour with broken white patterning).

I would finish with black boots and probably boltgun metals.

For vehicles, I would probably use a scheme similar to this:

But using white, mid grey and light grey instead of the green. If you have an airbrush, masking tape and these colours will make your job very easy

If you don't you could try making a feathered edge to your patterns using a very soft brush with a small amount of paint on it to drag away from the centre of the colour block.

This.

Anyone got tutorials, this is brilliant!

**The Noise Marine**

SilverMK2 wrote:
The Noise Marine wrote:
SilverMK2 wrote:
Personally I would be tempted to go with a white overcoat, with some mid grey broken patterning, washed with an extremely weak blue wash (just to give the white some depth).

I will probaly do this White over coat ( Maybe grey dots or patches ) with grey trousers ( Codex grey or fortress grey ) Black ammo webbing , boots and gloves , Cream or brown gas mask ( bleached bone or Bestial brown ) Boltgun metal helmets or same as overcoat .

Does that seem good ?

I would go with fortress grey trousers in that case. I would also recommend cardonite grey to use instead of black, then wash the black wash to give you the black colouration. I'd take the bone gas mask and do the helmets the same colour as the coats.

What colour would you be doing the body armour? As I say, using the inverted colours of the coat could look quite good.

I'd probably Do the armor Fortress grey , If you have ever played Call of duty 2 in the snow maps as the Germans , That is the sort of scheme im going for , But might change it so theres dots and patches in it , If i cant do it i';; get my girl-friend to do the dots and pacthes

**SilverMK2**

You can use a cocktail stick to apply paint in dots and cluster them to make patches.

**stratassj**

Welcome to the korps. I've actually done a very similar thing to what your talking about wanting to do.

How i've gone about it, the great coats are an off white, trousers are codex grey. Boots/rebreather hoses are done in leather brown. Belts/webbing are done in a slightly brighter brown, vermin brown i think. and the gloves/ammo pouches/leg wrappings/gasmask are kahki with an ogryn flesh wash.

With the helmet and armor panels eg. shoulder pads. I tryed at first doing them white, but i found that doing them as boltgun, then a heavy wash with babbab black makes them look so much better. And they look better without the intercepting camo patchs in my opinion.

As for vehicles, i still havent figuered that one out yet myself.

**Kanluwen**

I would suggest very much not doing a white greatcoat.

You just don't see that ever really done, because greatcoats aren't technically 'part of the uniform' but an accoutrement that's attached to the uniform and worn as a supplement. Anytime you saw the Germans wearing 'white' it was an overall/poncho(or in some cases--tents cut to fit!) and they'd shed the greatcoats for them.

I'd suggest actually using that color used in the photo of the German Grenadier for the greatcoat.
It's called 'German Grey'(fittingly enough, right?

) and the Vallejo Model Color range has it.
If you really want to get across the 'snow' theme, at least on the Guardsmen proper(I wouldn't advise it. Snow camo looks terrible at 28mm scale) rather than on the armored vehicles and bases, using very very very watered down white paint, you can 'whitewash' the armor bits.
You can do the same thing for the armored vehicles.

**The Noise Marine**

Here is my scheme

**Kanluwen**

It's your call, but I'd tried white leather greatcoats as a test scheme for a friend who wanted some Krieg models and it looks terrible as just flat white.

You're going to have to do mud spatters, etc to really make it 'pop'.

**The Noise Marine**

Kanluwen wrote:It's your call, but I'd tried white leather greatcoats as a test scheme for a friend who wanted some Krieg models and it looks terrible as just flat white.

You're going to have to do mud spatters, etc to really make it 'pop'.

Maybe from them sprinting and their feet pushing down on the snow to flick the mud up but considering this is a icy planet ( Me and my mate are doing Snow Tau and Snow korps ) i probably wont do mud splatters but a wash of some sort of it.

**Kanluwen**

The Noise Marine wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:It's your call, but I'd tried white leather greatcoats as a test scheme for a friend who wanted some Krieg models and it looks terrible as just flat white.

You're going to have to do mud spatters, etc to really make it 'pop'.

Maybe from them sprinting and their feet pushing down on the snow to flick the mud up but considering this is a icy planet ( Me and my mate are doing Snow Tau and Snow korps ) i probably wont do mud splatters but a wash of some sort of it.

"Ice" is very different from snow in terms of how it works.

You don't really see very much done for "ice" camouflage--simply because it just can't effectively work.
Ice is shiny and distracting....but you can still see what's underneath of it. The best option is just whitewashing everything and hoping that nobody spots it before engagements.

Not trying to be a downer, just calling it like I see it.