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Bolt Action USMC 1000pts army
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I wanted to try out a paint scheme so I started with this metal .30 Cal team.
Deathguard green primer with Athonian Camoshade wash was the idea. I think it looks fine.
I searched back through an old messenger conversation with a sadly departed friend and they said they had used a Vallejo Green Grey for their USMC or occasionally a Vallejo Russian Uniform green. I didn’t mix the paint well enough, or it’s just old and split in some way, because when I used my Green Grey as a trial on the trousers it came out glossy. I mixed it with some Deathguard green and that blended it and took the worst of the gloss away.
Used Iraqi Sand for the vest of the loader, but think the shirt should be more white.
I used Cryptek Armourshade Gloss on the gun over the Deathguard green and think it looked good, but I used a Leadbelcher Armourshade mix as as a highlight because when ai have seen these guns their either black or shiny metal coloured and wouldn’t be much rust on them even in the tropical humidity.
I think I will return to this later. Add some stubble. Add a tattoo maybe. Add some eyes. The pics make them look fairly sunburnt as a happy accident but will check them again and see if a Barbarian Flesh highlight is in order.
Great work, @dugthefug1644 – especially on the Sand-Variant “Frog Skin” camo covers.
Always love to see Marines featured. Semper fi.
Cheers @oriskany. I absolutely love the helmet cover camo designs and they stood out for me in the “Commando picture library” comic books of my youth and war movies with my grandad. Both the movies and the comics were black and white but the patterns looked cool and iconic. So I did a quick Google for some technicolour and remember the schemes from The Pacific TV series etc. I used drops of washes and let them dry and they came out quite well. Looking forward to getting stuck into this project. The multi pose box looks great. I am right… Read more »
Yeah, @dugthefug1644 – that USMC Pacific “frogskin” camo throws a lot of people off. The reason is the material was usually reversible (as shown in the image below). There’s a green-based version, and a sand-based version (which you seem to have used). Also, sometimes you see it only on the helmet cover, sometimes just the blouse, sometimes the trousers, sometimes all three. In general it was a phased rollout, not really uniform (as the photo below proves). Basically, mid-war Central Pacific you see this on helmets (Tarawa-Peleilu), late war you see blouses as well (Iwo Jima) and very late war,… Read more »
@oriskany thanks. I prefer the sand variant aesthetic, only for the silly reason that some of the cheap knock off toy soldiers as a kid had an ugly green based camo scheme and some green based camo patterns look odd or wrong to me even in a well sourced photo. Lol.
@dugthefug1644 – I definitely agree the sand aesthetic looks better. And is more accurate with the Central Pacific campaigns you seem to be aiming at (with the Amptrack, etc). The jungle frog skin was more coimmonly used in southern Pacific campaigns like New Britain, Cape Glouchester, Bougainville, etc.