Baldie wrote:Looks better than decent mate, they look blooming great.
There are
so many of them though its scary. Building these guys for Chain of Command, so a
minimum of three full squads, a panzershreak team and command team.
Assembled and based them a while back, so no idea who goes with what though, still figure as long as there are enough of them I can run with it.
Love the warlord metals, not so keen on the multi pose plastics which seem to be 'a million poses, none convincing', the metals with just a separate head work pretty well, only really falls over for models with only one basic pose, like the leather coat officer model - but will avoid using them both next to each other.
Bought a book on painting SS figures and trying some of the glazing techniques and a custom flesh tone for these guys, seems to be working so far, not a method I've used before but apart from the actual camo itself is pretty simple.
E.g. flesh is basically:
1. Black base
2. drybrush white
3. drybrush white, again
4, drybrush mid flesh tone
5, brown wash
6, glaze mid flesh tone (could drybrush as well there)
umm thats about it but puts a lot more depth in than just base & wash.
Basic uniform is pretty much the same (different colours), all pretty much a pre-shading method. would work well with a lot of coloured washes (did fine for the Americans that way)