Painting French and German WWI miniatures

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**Lord Castellan**

I'd like to paint some Early WWI era miniatures for wargaming, yet I am unsure as to what colour scheme I should use. For the Germans, would it be okay to used WWII Feldgrau paint schemes? What about the French (note: Bleu Horizon was NOT introduced at this point).

**wana10**

I don't know the proper colours but I do know Osprey have some books on the subject, http://www.amazon.com/The-German-Army-World-War/dp/1841765651/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_y
http://www.amazon.com/The-French-Army-1914-18-Men-at-Arms/dp/1855325160/ref=pd_sim_b_10

**frozenwastes**

Early war Germans should be fine with the grey. The french of the time have a slightly updated version of the Franco-Prussian War uniform. So instead of being the lighter horizon blue, it's pretty much a true blue, on the darkish side, perhaps faded a bit at the elbows and whatnot.

Link about the Germans:

http://www.landships.freeservers.com/german_earlywar_uniforms.htm

**Albeezie**

for my french I used the gw paint regal blue. It's probably a little darker than the true blue they used but it looks quite nice.

Here's how they turned out (I painted the epaulettes gold because it looked cool. Historically those should be blue. Also, I painted the caps red, which would not be common in combat because they would put a light blue cover on the kepi)

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/322148-French%20imperial%20guard.html

**Lord Castellan**

Is that a black or a white primer? And what did you use for the base-coat?

**Albeezie**

For priming I used some cheap black acrylic paint, and for the base coat I used Regal blue. I highlitghted with a mix of regal blue and ice blue. The red was done with scab red. I'm not sure what the equivalent "new" gw paints are for these though.