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Hello everyone, I am interested in painting up my new Scions in a digital camo pattern and after looking around on here I am unable to find a thread on it. My question to you is:

Is there some way to paint digital camo on a model as small as a Scion infantryman? let me clarify it will only be on the armored portions of the model.

Thanks for your feedback!

There is a company that had a kick starter for this thing. I forgot there name.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1828606900/ttcombat-presents-snappy-stencils

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQVKmzvxDDM

I paint digital camo on tanks, and can honestly say it would cost my sanity to do it on infantry models. (check my blog / gallery).

Stencils are definately the way to go, if you can find any for infantry sized models. You could even make them yourself (which may take a while).

Post pics when you are done, i'd love to see digi camo on infantry!

The salt method works pretty well on small infantry.

I tried the sale method and I ruined the figures.

The problem with digicam is that it would be so small on the infantry that the human eye would not be able to pick it up. You are better just using the colors and painting tiger stipe camo, then going back and puting square dots here and there on the main color and the stripes to represent the occasional pixel.

That's one way. The second way is to paint larger, more manageable blocks, so that we see it as digicam, but in reality it would not work at that scale. The idea is to trick the eyes. Again, try and mimic tiger strip camo, but in squares. Digicam usually is a horizontal pattern, so that makes things a bit easier, but you can do vertical stripes.

For some really good painting tips and discussions on UCP try this site: http://ambushalleygames.com/

As noted, small scale might be moot on a figure, but as an idea:







http://ambushalleygames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9175

It might give you an idea for painting some sort of digicam

Those infinity figures are exactly what I mean by painting the digicam "too big". It gives the impression, but if those figures were real life, the blocks would be too big to work as camo.

I'm going to give it a go myself. I've tried it before on tanks and it came out ok. But I'm not sure wether to do it on armour or fatigues.

General Hobbs wrote:


Those infinity figures are exactly what I mean by painting the digicam "too big". It gives the impression, but if those figures were real life, the blocks would be too big to work as camo.

I agree, I was just using them as examples for ways to try and capture the 'feel'.

Given that even the lasrifle is to big to be carried as a standard rifle (compare it's size to the giant featured guardsman vs. a battle rifle, even the OICW, to a modern infantryman, it is ludicrously sized for effect), sometimes you have to capture the feel vs the function.

I'm afraid I'm not much for expert help, but since I'm currently doing the same thing I'll throw my two cents in.

To start my models I picked the us navy's digital camouflage pattern, so I had a real world example to work from. Once I mixed up the three paint colors I needed I started by basing the area I wanted camo-ed up with the lightest color. Then I put random squares of very small annoyingly uncooperative painters tape in a pattern closely matching my example and painted the next lighter color. Because I'm somewhat impatient the tape was not perfectly secure and the paint bled in some areas, but a more cautious painter could easily prevent this. After the second coat was dry enough to paint over (but not so dry that the tape became part of the model) I did the same thing with the next layer. Once the tape was all off I still didn't love/believe the way it looked and this is where my most helpful advice comes in (at least I think so)
1. Squares look awful, try to make each piece look more like a demented Tetris piece, it looks closer to the pattern real militaries and law enforcement use.
2. Putting tiny spots of contrasting colors inside large areas of one color brake up the blocky awkward feel.

I don't know if this helps you, but it's what's working for me so far.
Best of luck, I hope to see some pictures if you decide to go this route, I think this is pretty much the armor these guys were meant to have

I paint digital cam on my SM scouts' camo cloaks. It's not hard, just time consuming. I use the colors to give them the US Army look:

Catachan Green (yes, I still have an old pot of it, but it works)
Camo Green
and Kommando Kahki as the base.

You'll have to look up the new named equivalents to these, if you're not sure what colors I'm talking about.

With the Kahki base, I paint the darker swaths first. I essentially paint tetris shapes all over the surface. Then I do the same thing with the lighter green around and sometimes overlapping the darker. Then I slap a layer of Anthonian Cammo shade on top of it. Looks just like the ACU pattern used by the US Army.

And it should go without saying, but use a fine detail brush, and don't get too much on the brush. Just use the tip. You'll be returning to the pot a lot, but it's worth it.

EDIT: You want to make sure that the two colored swaths are spaced out to where the khaki base looks like it's a bunch of tan swathes.

You mean the UCP pattern. ACU refers to the actual cut of the uniform. UCP refers to the camo pattern.

For example, in Afghanistan, soldiers wear the ACU in Multicam pattern.

Within the next year or two, we'll probably see the whole Armed Forces adopt the Marpat pattern.