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Painting WW2 German Splinter Pattern Fast!

Posted by big p from gmg on 15 Sep 2010, 17:38

Speed Splinter Camo - A Tutorial


For fast, simple late-war German camo... It wont win awards but it will be quick to do. It took less than ten mins to do the camo on this guy and less than half an hour for the whole paintjob and base.

STAGE 1

GW Scorched Brown base colour on smock...

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STAGE 2

Vallejo Reflective Green 'splotches', random shapes and sizes as many as you feel is enough... and then add one or two more...

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STAGE 3

Vallejo German Camo Beige, more random splotches, place next to the green ones and then follow with groups of three fine lines ('raindrop pattern'), both onto the dark brown and the green. This will suggest the 'splinter' look... and thats it!

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FINISHED MODEL

On the finished model you can see the overall finish. It aint a medal winner, and it sure as hell aint 'accurate' but its quick and it 'looks' right on the tabletop.

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As a final finish, I now wash the camo clothing with 1 part Devlin Mud GW Wash to 1 part water... Helps to define everything.
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Posted by west1871 on 15 Sep 2010, 20:12

Cheers Piers :thumbup: I would be more than happy to shove that in a dio mate :-D Any tips on british DPM and dennison?(pushing my luck :lol: ).
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Posted by big p from gmg on 15 Sep 2010, 23:00

I think I did a DPM tutorial once... Wonder where it is...
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Posted by Peter on 16 Sep 2010, 18:04

Always fun to see a figure that comes to live with a little bit of paint :thumbup:
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Posted by Maurice on 16 Sep 2010, 19:52

Odd, most people would start with the beige as a base color.
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