Raptors chapter- how to paint?

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**SevenSeasOfRhye**

For some time I've been interesting in the sneaky, non-glorious, tactically oriented chapter of the Raptors. However, I can't seem to find the right colours for painting them. Does anybody know how you get this sort of dull green colour? What sort of basecoat, layer and highlight you'd use? http://s185.photobucket.com/user/plasticfish_photos/media/all_4_tac_raptors.jpg.html

**SevenSeasOfRhye**

Geifer wrote:
Essentially it looks like green on a brown base. What I would do:

Basecoat the model Death World Forest (light olive)
Wash it brown, then black
Stipple Castellan Green (dark olive)
Stipple Death World Forest.
Followed by a lighter shade of green for highlights.

The muted part of the green seems to be coming from darker colors showing through the layer of light olive ever so slightly (or not so slightly the deeper the recesses get).

"Stipple"?

**SevenSeasOfRhye**

ScootyPuffJunior wrote:
Here's my Raptors:

Dude these look awesome, but unfortunately I have 0 vallejo colours and no easy access to them. Do you know the corresponding GW colours?

**SevenSeasOfRhye**

Thanks for the tips everyone. I basecoated my model (a landspeeder) Death World Forest and it looks pretty close to what I want. I'm thinking maybe some Athonian Camoshade over that and then some highlights. Question is, what's a good highlight for Death World Forest?

**SevenSeasOfRhye**

JamesY wrote:
Elyssian green then ogryn camo.

Thanks a lot- I basecoated a marine model with Death World Forest, then layered with Elysian, and then washed it with Athonian Camoshade and the result is just what I wanted.