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Hi guys!

Well, since the time I hesitated to do it, well here they are, my first pictures on dakka ^^

I'm going for a desert camo theme IG, and I've finished my first squad, here they are!

(some of them are different, since I tried different camo painting methods, and was lazy to paint them again :p)

phone camera, so sorry for the bad picture quality

Wow man looks good well done!

Thanks!

Does it actually look like desrt camo?

I mean, it does for me, but I'm not the best judge of my own work, I always prefer to have other people opinion

It looks like a quite realistic desert camo to me.

Therein lies the problem - the miniatures lack definition. When painting a wargames army, realistic camo quite often has to take second fiddle to being visible on the table.

I'd be tempted to do the boots in desert tan, and the armour and helmets in olive drab, something to contrast a bit with the fatigues. Drybrush a little desert dust (bleached bone / khaki) onto them to unify a bit with the rest.

Nice painting, this article on desert camo could help you http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=&categoryId=cat440249a§ion=&pIndex=3&aId=2400008&start=4&multiPageMode=true

winterdyne wrote:It looks like a quite realistic desert camo to me.

Therein lies the problem - the miniatures lack definition. When painting a wargames army, realistic camo quite often has to take second fiddle to being visible on the table.

I'd be tempted to do the boots in desert tan, and the armour and helmets in olive drab, something to contrast a bit with the fatigues. Drybrush a little desert dust (bleached bone / khaki) onto them to unify a bit with the rest.

Well, that was actually the dilemma I had for some time... The more realistic the camo is, the less the minis will be visible on the table (obviously). I still want to keep it as camo as possible, but I might try to Dheneb Stone the armor parts, and see how it looks

These look great What I would suggest just for the photos next time is use more light! ;P

looks real good. You can use the usmc digies as a guide for desert tho.

Hey its not too bad for a phone's camera. Im with Winterdyne in relation to the desert dust, do a real light kahki drybrush onto the boots/pants

I like these as well, looks like some of the unis that the Brits and Aussies ive had the good fortune of serving with in Iraq. (obviously simplified for visibility on the table top)

Ok, thanks for the advice I actually painted the shoulderpads in Dheneb Stone, it loses a bit the camo part, but it seems a bit less messy, I will try to add one or two pictures later

I will try the drybrush on boots, but for some reasons it seems the be the technique I have the most trouble with (either too much paint, or not enough, I can't find the good way to do it)