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I recently bought a large amount of Krieg, I don't know how I want to paint them. I plan to put them on red-brown mud with slushy snow on top, I don't know how to colour the snow with out it looking weird any suggestions would be great, or any other ideas for basing as long as they incorporate slushy snow. Also I need help coming up with ideas for the models them selves. I'm thinking a grey or green, though just about any standard Krieg colour will work.

Not sure if a red/brown mud would go well with snow? The problem is that snow is such a stark contrast to the red, going for a more flat grey/brown probably would work better?

As for painting snow (if your not using the snow basing stuff that gets sold) you should always start with a light blue base coat, then heavily over brush that with white. That of course makes a very pure looking snow, so I'm not sure if thats what your looking for? But yeah, experiment? might be worth trying almost a grey base with slushy slightly grey snow on top?

I have snow, it's woodland scenic's snow product, I'm wondering if that's possible to colour.

 baseballclu wrote:
I have snow, it's woodland scenic's snow product, I'm wondering if that's possible to colour.

I wouldn't bother. Paint the bases with an appropriate dirt color, and mix water effect with your snow. If you spread it on thin and patchy you'll have some of the brown base color showing through in spots, and the snow will look like ice and slush. Alternatively, if you want it to look like the ground has been torn up and mixed with the snow, make your water/snow mix, then mix some water effects, sand, and mud-colored pigments, and right before you put it onto the bases grab some blobs of each mix and crush them together onto the base. What you want to have is distinct bits of dirt embedded in the snow (or the other way around, if you want the mud color to dominate), not just brown-colored snow.

As for the models, use a dark color. I did a snow basing scheme for my DKoK, and their dark blue-gray coats contrast very strongly with the white bases. It looks less realistic I guess, but aesthetically the contrast is nicer than an all-white color scheme. If you do go for a lighter snow-color uniform, make sure you use an off-white color so it stands out at least a bit against the white background.

I like that idea, the white uniforms sound awesome though you are correct in the fact it isn't as fluffy.