2018 painting challenge: reduce the mountain some more!

[petercooman]

So, the models did not fit the bolt action heads, so now i have one with a big head 

The spare helmets from the bolt action kits fitted better, so i have added a few to them. Also made someother conversions, gunslinger terminator, command terminator and some infiltrators using a cut up crawler and 3 resistance models. Also made a t-1000. just made holes in it's body that i have to paint silver, and replaced a hand with a pike.

All in all, worked out ok!

[petercooman]

Painted a test model for my airborne army:






uniform colours look like ok to me. any opinions?

[d_Guy]

Not my area, Peter but as kids all of us had our father's, uncle's, etc, WW2 equipment (save the ranged weapons) to play with. The battle dress color looks very right (brown slightly shadowed toward green and universally called kakhi). The contrast with the web gear looks right as well - it was slightly more green than the "kakhi". The leather bits, Including the boots, where a light mahogany and again your shade looks correct. We had mainly the helmet liners but the helmets I remember had a more blue tinge than brown (but airborne may be different.). The shovel handles were painted OD and yours is spot on. Very old memories.
Don't know if that helps.

The figure is beautifully painted! I really like the low light which shows detail extremely well. Nice!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Really nice work

[petercooman]

Really nice work

thanks!

Not my area, Peter but as kids all of us had our father’s, uncle’s, etc, WW2 equipment (save the ranged weapons) to play with. The battle dress color looks very right (brown slightly shadowed toward green and universally called kakhi). The contrast with the web gear looks right as well - it was slightly more green than the “kakhi”. The leather bits, Including the boots, where a light mahogany and again your shade looks correct. We had mainly the helmet liners but the helmets I remember had a more blue tinge than brown (but airborne may be different.). The shovel handles were painted OD and yours is spot on. Very old memories.
Don’t know if that helps.

The figure is beautifully painted! I really like the low light which shows detail extremely well. Nice!

Thanks!

About the helmet, i painted it VMC brown violet, wich is recommended in various painting guides . i'll try not going over the helmet with the brown wash next time, as i'm guessing that's why it looks too brown. That or i'll re-highlight the helmet afterwards.

This is the original colour



ps: the wash was not fully dry when i took the pictures, so the end result might be a little lighter now.

[lowlylowlycook]

Looks like the test airborne soldier was a success!

[Terry37]

Don't know if this is helpful or not, but if you are doing your paratroopers in the M-42 jump suit for D-Day, then it would be a light khaki color, As you can see in this picture the jacket and pants did not always match, but were made of the same material....probably different lots. This named M-42 uniform from my airborne collection was worn by the S2 of the 502nd at Bastogne when he was wounded in his right hand.  If you look closely you can still see the blood stains.



Here are some other airborne jackets form my collection. Notice the different shades. The jacket on the left is an M-41, which was also worn by the airborne - usually just the glider troops.



If you want them for Bastogne then you would want to do the M-43 which is a green-gray color (but keep in mind the S2 above who still wore his D-Day M-42. Also at this time they were supposed to wear the new buckle boots, but most paratroopers were not about to give up their jump boots and continued to wear them. Also, they were concerned about the buckles snagging lines when they jumped. The glider troops never got the jump boots....unless they could hustle a pair, but a non-paratrooper did not want to get caught wearing jump boots by a paratrooper as they took great pride in them! The jacket in this picture is the M-43 worn by the same S2 officer who wore the full jump suit in the first picture above. The trousers however are not WW2, but Korean War issue. They were the same with very minor differences, thus the darker green color. I obtained those from a different veteran, who served in the Korean War.



Hope this is of some help.

Terry

[petercooman]

Thanks for that! Nice collection!

I am actually doing them up for d-day, so i think the colour is about right!

Easy thing about picking the d-day uniform, is that you can always say they haven't received their new uniform for when you use them in scenarios later in the war.

Only thing i can't decide is to make them 101st or 82nd!

[paulr]

 

Good to see progress on items on the list

[Terry37]

Peter,

Happy to share and glad it helps, but that is only a small part of the collection I had. Have since passed on most of it as there is just not enough room in our downsized home.. A few things - first almost all, if not all jump suits were reinforced for D-Day. so this picture may help give you an idea of colors to paint the elbow and knee patches. these are not mine as I was never able to afford a reinforced suit, even if one had come along as hey started at  $15K USD for just a jacket when I was collecting, but most guys weren't ready to turn lose of one if they had it. I've seen several and will tell you that they had been soaked in some anti-chemical warfare solution and truly smelled awful, even after all these years. They also have a slimy slick feel to them, but collectors want them big time!



Also, to keep things accurate, the 101st did NOT wear flags on D-Day on their uniforms, only the 82nd did. They both wore them for Market garden. Also, only the 101st used the crickets on D-Day.

Terry

[petercooman]

A few things - first almost all, if not all jump suits were reinforced for D-Day. so this picture may help give you an idea of colors to paint the elbow and knee patches.

Didn't even think about those 

Interesting detail, i just noticed the miniatures are sculpted with the buckle boots. I didn't notice and just painted them the unifom colour. So, actually they are not fit for d-day 

That's a bit of a bummer there, and maybe an oversight by warlord games!

[Terry37]

Peter,

Might not be worth worrying about. Or you could just file the buckle boot to look like a jump boot.

Here's a link that will show the jump boot

https://qmfashion.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/paratrooper-jump-boots-americas-first-symbol-of-eliteness-and-fashions-most-experienced-boot/

Here's a link for the buckle bots, but these are shown as "rough outs'. I have seen them with the same finish as the jump boot and as rough outs??? never owned a pair as I was primarily interested in D-Day.

http://www.sofmilitary.co.uk/us-ww2-1943-m43-buckle-boots-by-combat-serviceable-product,4029

Terry

[petercooman]

I'll leave them on and pretend they aren't there i guess. If it's taken me this long to spot it, it's not that much of a problem.

[petercooman]

The painting on the US airborne is done, base texture is drying.

Have to drybrush the bases, apply the decals and put static gras on them.

Guessing  i'll have them done within the week, so i can almost check nr 7 off  the list!

[paulr]