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How do you paint really detailed camo onto figures?

It's not really hard. You find colors that will look right based on photos of real camo, then just paint them in semi-random blotches around the figure. It's better to see it visually:








It's good to find three colors that aren't too close to each other (so I would take a light grey then a slightly lighter grey) and paint them in semi-random yet conjoined blotches around the area you want. After that a wash usually works to tie the colors together a bit better and shade the cloth/armor you're painting on.

What type of camo? Winter, Urban, Woodland, Ash waist?

jungle esqu camo


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If your familiar with tamiya colors than you;ll have an idea of my scheme

Tamiya cockpit interior green for the coat
Tamiya Dark green for armor and weapons
Tamiya olive drab for splotches of camo on the coat

For jungle I paint the fatigues Snot Green, then do blotches of Camo Green, Chaos Black, and I think Snakebite Leather. After that I do a Badab Black wash.

Check this for ideas.

http://www.kamouflage.net/global.php

There are also different patterns of camouflage. There's digital camouflage (which I imagine would be pretty tedious to pull off), the "standard" blotchy camo, chocolate-chip... all different kinds.

This is a handy article to read: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=cat440130a&categoryId=600003§ion=&aId=2400008

Do a blue urban camo!


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Do a blue urban camo!

Figuring out what your paint schemeis for your new cadian pig irons?