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In case anybody doesn't know, I recently started IG. I started painting the infantry with success, and with my vehicles I wanted the camo look. So this is what I concocted. Just give me some feedback, how do you think they look?

pretty good!

if you want to jazz it up, drybrush the edges on the green a lighter green and then the edges on the white a lighter white.

you could also use a stipple(?) brush to soften the edges of the camo.

I like it.

I'd give the whole vehicle a wash of some sort to adda little depth and grime: the "white" areas of the camo look REALLY clean...

Personally I would go with a even black line between the tan and the green. I would go about a brush thickness in width so 2-3/8 of an inch. Hit the green with a black wash and the tan with maybe a graveyard earth wash.

wow how did you paint it so cleanly? when i made an attempt at painting a leman russ it wasn't so good a coverage!


but yeah, do some weathering on the tank, like a wash of watered down chaos black, and then using devlan mud or something. otherwise, great effort!

I use similar colors to those, but I use an airbrush to free-hand my camo patterns. It is pretty quick and easy, although there is a little time involved in the set up and clean up.

Man, Looks good to me! Just throw on some dirt and grime.

I love it!

I like it since it is simple and did not over do it. A bit of clean up on the edges of the tan it would be great.

There could potentiallybe a bit more tan in there, but overall I think you've nailed it with the 2 colour approach. camo is about breaking up outlines, but it doesn't have to be ultra fiddly. I would concur with earlier comments on needing either highlighting or shading to make it really pop, but its a good solid base.

That looks just fine for tabletop.

If you want to do better, then you have to make it look like 1/28th scale sized people did it, rather than looking like it was painted with a giant brush (like it actually was).

That and just doing some more work on it, like adding highlights and grime.

Looks good

dark6spectre wrote:wow how did you paint it so cleanly? when i made an attempt at painting a leman russ it wasn't so good a coverage!


but yeah, do some weathering on the tank, like a wash of watered down chaos black, and then using devlan mud or something. otherwise, great effort!

to answer this, I basecoat the model catachan green then paint a thin line of bleached bone to make sure the lines match up, after that I just thicken the lines, with the tan color you sometimes have to apply more than one coat.

Do you think a light wash of devlan mud on the tan parts would improve it?