All painted, I see so many flaws but I'm done. Just need to base them tomorrow, add unit type colour stripes on the back and spray Matt varnish for a game on Sunday at League of Ancients. I can't do my 1100 point army because I have not put 3 plastic Bren Gun Carriers together, so I'm going for a more elite veteran force.
My painting guide is here.
The Bayonets are all bent or doomed to break off If I ever do another army, no Bayonets!
The Army Painter Speedpaints 2.0 are SO much faster than my old Citadel paints and nicer to use in drop bottles. I just wish there was a brown that was WW2 British Uniform Khaki. They shade and highlight very well, though the lighter paints are so transparent they won't go over darker ones. You need to be careful leaving space for the very light colours. Though having Western Europe Khaki and light Desert colored helmets and packs was always going to make it hard. The Army Painter Shaders arn't quite like the Washers they have now, but I very much like them.
I avoided mixing paints as I will need to add to this force in the future.
I probably didn't need to have different colours for the Puttee's and Boots as they are so close to be identical.
There's very little different between the Pale Bone backpack and Howling Sand gas mask bag, I don't think I'll bother using the Howling Sand next time.
The Great Coat is too dark, it looks like it's made of leather instead of wool. Nuts.
Some of them have crusader skin instead of tanned skin but that was a tad too dark.
The Pale Bone is so transparent it won't show up over the very dark great coat unfortunately, and my painting skills are not good enough to leave them unpainted when doing the coat.
With the very dark overcoat I don't think I actually got any point to spending the time to do a Zenithal highlighting :(
The great coat and pants were the most time consuming and unfun part of it. I switched to a Army Painter Monster brush from a Regiment brush afterwards and this made everything else much faster.
Doing the washes and slapping them over the paint was the best and most enjoyable part.
I didn't do any drybrushing on the infantry as I don't think they need it.
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| 50 troops and objectives at the back with 2 Matilda II's |
I am tried of painting brown!
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