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Hi I want to put camo on my Leman Russ vanilla. Was wondering what to use to for the stripes. Like putty,tape,paper? Want it to look fairly similar to the camo on GW site! I will use different colors, but same pattern. Any ideas are appreciated thanks!
[/img]http://cdn.librarium-online.com/2010/03/Imperial_Guard_Cadian_Leman_Russ.gif[/img]

i want it to look like that.

could you maybe show a photo of the style your trying to achieve?
I've found that tape gives a really sharp line, whilst draping paper over the model allows the spray
to bleed under the paper a little giving a slightly softer edge.
Naturally, I'm sure there's someone on here that reeeally knows what there doing, but thats my
experience.

hmmm having trouble putting pic up... but if you look up that link thats how i want it to look.

Take away the backslash on the first img tag. That should fix it for you. Also you should generally try to rehost images on Tinypic or Imageshack, as leeching is frowned upon.

E: After looking at the image, it looks like a pretty standard camo scheme. You can pull this off by masking off areas of the tank with putty and using an airbrush. So for this you could airbrush the whole tank tan, then mask off the areas you wanted to keep tan and airbrush it green. Then you'd just highlight as normal. Hope that helps!

Posted.

hmmm well i dont have an airbrush so could i still use that technique with a hand brush?


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Brother SRM wrote:Take away the backslash on the first img tag. That should fix it for you. Also you should generally try to rehost images on Tinypic or Imageshack, as leeching is frowned upon.

E: After looking at the image, it looks like a pretty standard camo scheme. You can pull this off by masking off areas of the tank with putty and using an airbrush. So for this you could airbrush the whole tank tan, then mask off the areas you wanted to keep tan and airbrush it green. Then you'd just highlight as normal. Hope that helps!

what do you mean by leeching? stealing? and how does uploading it through a different source change it?

Alternatively you can pull that off easily with a simple brush. It will take a bit longer, but its a lot less expensive in equipment

So again, a tan base coat followed up with various layers of green to get a good colour. I would recommend a Knarloc Green basecoat and maybe Catachen green? There also seems to be a darker (dark green or black?) hard edge to the green portions to provide further contrast to the tan.

Thanks for the help!

Although I'm not using that color scheme I'm using one similar to those colors.

Here is what I did for IG Vehicle Camo. The main green color was Krylon Camo Green Spray Paint (very close to GW Catachan Green). Then the tan was first GW Dheneb Stone and then GW Kommando Khaki on top. It is hard to get a clean line without tape so I used a thin line of Black to seperate the two colors. This is what it looks like.

Traditional camo usually works best. What I did for my first Catachan vehicles was an individual leaf paint job. Looked pretty good, but each leaf was the width of a regular brush, not something I would do again or even recommend.

The one thing to remember for good camo on vechiles is color placement. It is not about randon color, it is breaking up the outline of the vehicle and those colors must run the all the way thorugh. As you are painting rotate the vehicle and carry the pattern up into the turret. If it stops before the turret it will look weird like a green blob sticking out of the sand.

Hmmm i like all these ideas will keep them in mind! thanks!

wondering what I could use to make not to perfect lines but choppy i guess or natural besides putty?

IHEARTLARGEBLASTTEMPLATES wrote:hmmm well i dont have an airbrush so could i still use that technique with a hand brush?


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Brother SRM wrote:Take away the backslash on the first img tag. That should fix it for you. Also you should generally try to rehost images on Tinypic or Imageshack, as leeching is frowned upon.

E: After looking at the image, it looks like a pretty standard camo scheme. You can pull this off by masking off areas of the tank with putty and using an airbrush. So for this you could airbrush the whole tank tan, then mask off the areas you wanted to keep tan and airbrush it green. Then you'd just highlight as normal. Hope that helps!

what do you mean by leeching? stealing? and how does uploading it through a different source change it?

It means you're stealing their bandwith. Just reupload the image to a different host and that's all. Some forums are really hard on this practice, this one less so. Just a good habit is all

Do real tank camo. Just pick a real tank and copy its camo. Real militaries do it right, so why shouldn't you?

My friend makes heavy use of late WWII German Army camo for his IG. For his tanks he uses a very simple yet good-looking scheme used by the King Tiger tanks during the last years of the war. Pic related.

hmmm ailaros i dont even see the scheme very well haha and corvus im not sure im in to that but thanks for the suggestion!

hmmm ailaros i dont even see the scheme very well haha and corvus im not sure im in to that but thanks for the suggestion!

That's sort of the point, actually.

Real tank camo is very subtle. If you do a google image search for "tank camo" you will find that the only thing that looks really camo-ed are artist representations of camoflaged tanks (like the above picture, or toys from hasbro, etc.). Real tanks don't look like that.

Real tanks use camo with camo netting, or, at most, use something really subtle, like this guy

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet or not but one way I've done a two colour scheme, like the cadian Russ you posted, was to spray the tank one colour (The tan) then use blu tack over the sections you want to remain that colour in the pattern you're after then spray the rest of it the second colour (Green).

Very simple and very easy. Once that's done you can drybrush add highlights, details and decals.

Pretty sure there was a White dwarf article about it once... A while ago though.

Jake Bake A Cake wrote:Not sure if this has been mentioned yet or not but one way I've done a two colour scheme, like the cadian Russ you posted, was to spray the tank one colour (The tan) then use blu tack over the sections you want to remain that colour in the pattern you're after then spray the rest of it the second colour (Green).

I already said this on this very page
Regardless, it is the best way to go about doing this. I think I might have the same WD lying around with said tutorial.

Brother SRM wrote:

Jake Bake A Cake wrote:Not sure if this has been mentioned yet or not but one way I've done a two colour scheme, like the cadian Russ you posted, was to spray the tank one colour (The tan) then use blu tack over the sections you want to remain that colour in the pattern you're after then spray the rest of it the second colour (Green).

I already said this on this very page
Regardless, it is the best way to go about doing this. I think I might have the same WD lying around with said tutorial.

Whoops

Only flicked through the thread... Looking back at your post you don't have to use an airbrush. There's a couple of brands of spray paint that work really well.

Airbrush would be preferred though of course.

I don't like that camo look as much as my OP has in mind. I think i will try the technique suggested by Jake and brother SRM

thanks!

Jake Bake A Cake wrote:

Brother SRM wrote:

Jake Bake A Cake wrote:Not sure if this has been mentioned yet or not but one way I've done a two colour scheme, like the cadian Russ you posted, was to spray the tank one colour (The tan) then use blu tack over the sections you want to remain that colour in the pattern you're after then spray the rest of it the second colour (Green).

I already said this on this very page
Regardless, it is the best way to go about doing this. I think I might have the same WD lying around with said tutorial.

Whoops

Only flicked through the thread... Looking back at your post you don't have to use an airbrush. There's a couple of brands of spray paint that work really well.

Airbrush would be preferred though of course.

I'd recommend this Technique using Sprays; specifically, I'd whole-heartedly suggest you look into Army Painter Colour Primers. Even something like Montana Sprays would do the job. Ensure you Paint the Lighter Colour First, though!

Popsicle wrote:

Jake Bake A Cake wrote:

Brother SRM wrote:

Jake Bake A Cake wrote:Not sure if this has been mentioned yet or not but one way I've done a two colour scheme, like the cadian Russ you posted, was to spray the tank one colour (The tan) then use blu tack over the sections you want to remain that colour in the pattern you're after then spray the rest of it the second colour (Green).

I already said this on this very page
Regardless, it is the best way to go about doing this. I think I might have the same WD lying around with said tutorial.

Whoops

Only flicked through the thread... Looking back at your post you don't have to use an airbrush. There's a couple of brands of spray paint that work really well.

Airbrush would be preferred though of course.

I'd recommend this Technique using Sprays; specifically, I'd whole-heartedly suggest you look into Army Painter Colour Primers. Even something like Montana Sprays would do the job. Ensure you Paint the Lighter Colour First, though!

hmm will look in to the sprays because i dont have money to spend on a air brush.

Krylon Camo Green. Place Silly Putty on top of the model in a fairly random pattern. Spray Krylon Kacki. Cover entire model with Army Painter medium tone wash/sealant and you're done!

You should give it a wasteland pattern like the karskirns camoflauge (dont get me wrong the cadian karskirns dont have wasteland camoflauge) so add brown triangles, rectangles, squares (<- be careful on that one), or maybe octagons. But keep the shapes pointy not round

Or you could use a brush

Pipboy101 wrote:Here is what I did for IG Vehicle Camo. The main green color was Krylon Camo Green Spray Paint (very close to GW Catachan Green). Then the tan was first GW Dheneb Stone and then GW Kommando Khaki on top. It is hard to get a clean line without tape so I used a thin line of Black to seperate the two colors. This is what it looks like.

The clean line is very easily acquired by using any sort of "silly putty" to mask off the areas.

I used the yellow kind used to hang posters, etc.

Simply mask off the desired pattern and paint inside the area. Then pull off the putty and you will have very sharp edge lines.

Finished mine last night the pattern looks alot like pipboy!

IHEARTLARGEBLASTTEMPLATES wrote:Hi I want to put camo on my Leman Russ vanilla. Was wondering what to use to for the stripes. Like putty,tape,paper? Want it to look fairly similar to the camo on GW site! I will use different colors, but same pattern. Any ideas are appreciated thanks!


i want it to look like that.

found what was wrong.
in the script [/img]http://cdn.librarium-online.com/2010/03/Imperial_Guard_Cadian_Leman_Russ.gif[/img] there shouldn't be that / after the first [img], just edit that / out and it will work fine.
also i think that that scheme would be fairly easy to do if you have a air brush using putty, lay a base cote of green, then with the puty cover up the green so that only where you want the stripes to be, then air brush desert tan on.