SS Side Project

[leopard]

Due to the likely length of this one its getting its own thread.

Anyway, on with the show, 15mm Battlefront metal SS Panzergrenadiers...

1. Starting point


Cleaned up, primed black, airbrushed NATO black as a base

2. Pre-Shade


Dry brushed white to pre-shade for later colours

3. Skin Tones - first pass


Dry brushed with Flat Flesh

4. Skin Tones - wash


Washed with Sepia Shade, puts a nice tone on the flesh thats better than the actual flesh wash

5. Skin Tones - first highlight


Basic layer highlight with flat flesh

6. Skin Tones - second highlight


Light glaze, flat flesh lightened slightly and a bit of red added

7. Field Grey - Base


A few bits are destined to be in field grey, the base is 'extra dark green'

8. Field Grey - first highlight


Layer with field grey, final highlight with a bit of grey grey added

9. Uniform - base



Dry brush of US Field Drab as the base for the main uniform

10. Uniform - wash


Sepia wash to blend it all together

11. Uniform - first highlight



Layer with more US field drab

12. Uniform - second highlight



Final highlight, US field drab with a bit of camo beige added.

And thats it for the day, looks complex but this is basically just dry brushing and washing, have enough models for a platoon plus a 7th Panzerfaust MG team to swap in, took a few hours total to get this far.

[Baldie]

Good start.
Plan on starting my Germans when exams are over, black base oat and a nice grey dry rush will be first steps and prob stay there.

Your black and first highlight is pretty much done for winter theme.

[leopard]

Did occur to me that a winter theme was possible when I did the flesh tones over that, a white glaze wash would pretty much nail it, possibly with a dark grey base in place of black.

[leopard]

Bit more today.

Camo, stage one - dark green splotches



Camo, stage two - light sand splotches



These are the basis for the dot patterns which will go on tomorrow

[Baldie]

Pah you make it look to easy it is obviously no effort.

Dirty SS on the field any day soon I presume.

[leopard]

Little while before they are ready, but at some point yes.

mwwhahhhahahhhhahhahhahaaaa

[leopard]

Bit more work.

Bright Green Dots



German camo bright green, applied using a pin with the head clipped off that was laying about, whats left after pinning a model somewhere. Dots applied roughly in pairs, aiming so that ever angle you view you can see some on the helmet, arms, torso and legs.

Dark Green Dots



Luftwaffe camo green, applied the same way

Sand coloured dots



Applied using flat flesh of all colours but it seems to work, same method as before. This is it for the dots, in theory there should also be dots in the base field drab and extra dark green colours, but they are not really needed.

Black base coat



Flat black over the weapons, wood and boots

Gaiters in Russian Green



Simply brush paint of the gaiters in a slightly thinned Russian Green to use the pre-shading as the highlight stage for this small area

Small details




Panzerfaust painted middle stone, weapons brushed with oily steel, canteens painted in field drab, bread bags and pouches in Russian Green, highlighted Green Grey.

Final group shot



Platoon painted, ready for varnishing then basing.

Took a lot less time that I was expecting and while far from perfect they seem to have the right feel to them so happy enough.