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Hello!

In thanks to all the people who have helped me, I'm writing up a quick tutorial on a quick and easy camouflage called Flecktarn. I decided to do this because A. I'm featuring this on some models of my own, and think it's good to share ideas; and B. Guardsmen in general are boring. It's nice to spruce them up from time to time.

This is used a lot by German and Scandanavian Forces, and features, instead of tiger stripes or large splashes, or even geometric (Digital) DPMs, small dots.

Here, have an example:



This is a nice, effective, good looking camouflage, and looks great upsized on tanks or jets.

Main Composition

Light Base -> Medium Tone -> Black Splotches -> Different Medium Tone.

Black & the 2nd Medium Tone can be interchangeable, however.

But be careful! The dots/splotches must be well defined! Try dipping just the tip in, then doing the patches. I find it helps to work this out on a piece of card before hand, then looking at examples next to the figure I want to apply it to, bearing in mind the scale difference.

A Few Examples

Woodland - (Personal favourite. It's also worth adding that a more vivid one can be acheived by adding a tiny bit of orange to layer 3.)

1. Camo Green + .5 Rotting Flesh,
2. Camo Green + 2 Rotting Flesh (Direct 2 stage layer for base.)
3. Dotty splodges of Graveyard Earth, medium Spaced,
4. Smaller dotty-er splotches of Chaos Black, spaced loosely,
5. Large splotches of Catachan green, Medium/Close spaced.

Urban A - (This gives a nice satisfying contrast from the dark grey -> light boney colour. Effective if last layer is less closely spaced.)

1. Codex Grey,
2. Codex Grey + .5 Rotting Flesh, (Base highlight again!)
3. Dotty splodges of Codex Grey + .5 Chaos Black, medium Spaced,
4. Smaller dotty-er splotches of Chaos Black, spaced loosely,
5. Large splotches of Rotting Flesh, Medium spaced.

Urban B - (Pretty much the same as before, different top layer)

1. Codex Grey,
2. Codex Grey + .5 Skull White, (Base highlight again!)
3. Dotty splodges of Codex Grey + .5 Chaos Black, medium Spaced,
4. Smaller dotty-er splotches of Chaos Black, spaced loosely,
5. Large splotches of Fortress Grey + .25 Skull White, Medium spaced.

(More when I have more time! )

~sA