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Well, they've finally arrived, and I wasted little time getting started with'em. First up is the Company Commander. Beautiful model in every way, stunning amount of detail.

Overall, I'm really happy with the paintjob, although I may end up redoing his sleaves. Possibly making them dark red.

The picture quality isn't that good, first one's I've taken back home, and with my cellphone no less. I'll get better ones when I'm in an environment with decent lighting.

Awesome. The jacket looks so real. I don't think you need to worry about redoing anything.

Damn I wish I could afford Death Korps ...

nice paint-job

Beautiful. How did you do the jacket?

Love the paintjob, love the weathering, love the model. Great job!

The jacket was done with quite a few steps, and a lot of experimentation.

1. First, it has to be on white primer. If it's not, it simply won't work at all.
2. Paint the inner parts of the jacket and the rolled up sleaves Vallejo dark sand.
3. Mix some Vallejo US field drab with some glaze medium, and wash it over the jacket.
4. When the US field drab/dark sand wash starts to dry, wash it again with some Vallejo brown glaze (make sure you do this before the previous wash is actually dry, you want the two colours to mix together)
5. Finally, do one more wash in the same process with some Reaper green liner. Once again, you want the previous washes to still be wet, so the colours mix together.

It's kind of hard to explain, especially since it kind of breaks a lot of painting rules about letting things dry (especially washes), but it works surprisingly well.

Wow, interesting. So there is no base coat, just mixes/layers of wash over white primer?

It looks awesome. I'm having a problem making out the hands, but that may be more because of the photo or sculpt than your paintjob

rwzimmerman wrote:Wow, interesting. So there is no base coat, just mixes/layers of wash over white primer?

Pretty much. I find worry about basecoats and what not on white primer is a waste of time, since white primer allows you to paint directly onto it like a piece of canvas or paper. What you paint on is exactly what shows up, so there's no need to worry about extra layers, so long as you take the time to do it right. I use a similar (yet much simpler) method to paint my orks' skin.

Million wrote:It looks awesome. I'm having a problem making out the hands, but that may be more because of the photo or sculpt than your paintjob

Yeah, that's the part I need to fix. The hands were really hard to make out even when I was painting it, so I need to do a few touchups to make them (and the sleeve) a bit more visible. Might also do some highlights on the sword.

Alternatively:
Roughly the same effect can be achieved using a Graveyard Earth basecoat and alternating layers of Badab Black then Gryphonne Sepia.

Admittedly, it won't get that nice mud splatter effect he's got along the hem

The mud splatter was just US field drab and water. Possibly a little dark sand. Not too sure, it was just the muddiest looking stuff left on my pallet when I was finished.

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very nice.

Kanluwen wrote:Alternatively:
Roughly the same effect can be achieved using a Graveyard Earth basecoat and alternating layers of Badab Black then Gryphonne Sepia.

Admittedly, it won't get that nice mud splatter effect he's got along the hem

Any pics of this alternate method?

Commissar in my gallery has it.

Not gonna hijack Fafnir's thread with photos of my own stuff, that'd be poor taste

(Sorry for the already hijack Fafnir!)