Help painting camo

[minig]

I'm looking to paint camo on 15mm khurasan feds but I've never tried it before. I searched youtube/google but couldn't find anything for basic infantry, though i did find Robin's guide for vehicles (cheers). Any ideas for troops, would an airbrush work? Or is there a guide I can follow?

Cheers.

[ski2060]

15mm is going to be pretty small for camo on troops with an airbrush.

Unless you are doing large blotches of differing color with a very precise airbrush, you're probably looking at having to use a regular bristled brush.

What kind of camo pattern are you looking at doing?

Check out the web for 15mm Camo painting. I know I've seen some great WW2 camoflage work out there.

[minig]

I was hoping to keep it something similar to US Woodland or British BPM camouflage. With either brush strokes or blobs of camo, but what I've tried so far looks horrible.

[ski2060]

For woodland camo you're probably going to have to go with just a few patches to suggest the scheme.

At 15mm you won't be able to do the whole model in the scheme without it covering detail on the model and making ita blurry mess at tabletop level.

Try a couple small spotches of the main camo color, with just a small spot of the other color.

I'll see if I can find some examples for you.

[wikkid]

I found this useful..

cracdeschevaliers.blogspot.com/2011/03/painting-british-infantry-part-3.html

[minig]

Cheers Wikkid and ski2060.

[millsy]

I have an excellent PDF article on pea dot camo written by Dave Robotham. It was available online at one point but I can't find it now. PM me if you want a copy mate.

[minig]

Definately millsy, something like that is going to come in handy. Cheers

[inrepose]

When I painted these Hammers Slammers 8 years ago I dotted on some colours to represent a slight camo. Photo here www.flickr.com/photos/inrepose/309797434/

It is not a real camo style but when you see them on the table top, the mottled look does give you the slight impression of camo.