As there is no Post War photo place, apologies for putting this here. My Falklands Army project. The quality of these Pendraken casts absolutely blows me away. Even the faces show detail. These will be acsection of Paras with their corporal, useful in Falklands but also other scenarios such as Operation Banner.

As these progress I will add more photos for anyone interested.

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Looking good Graham. DPM is a bane to paint at 10mm, but you are getting there. 

Any thoughts on rules to utilise individual basing ? 

You aren't kidding Sunray. This is my first foray into 'modern' and DPM so this is my first experiment in painting. Used Vallejo paints, based in Khakhi, broadly striped with Medium Olive and then spots of German Camo brown.
Haven't thought of rules but was thinking of something very tactical/ section or platoon level hence infividual recommendation. Helpful members of forum yesterday suggested CWC but I don't have a copy to check that out.

Thanks for adding. G

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In future I will probably base layer in black, not white, though!

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Quote from: urbancohort on 05 April 2017, 05:55:12 AM
You aren't kidding Sunray. This is my first foray into 'modern' and DPM so this is my first experiment in painting. Used Vallejo paints, based in Khakhi, broadly striped with Medium Olive and then spots of German Camo brown.
Haven't thought of rules but was thinking of something very tactical/ section or platoon level hence infividual recommendation. Helpful members of forum yesterday suggested CWC but I don't have a copy to check that out.

Thanks for adding. G
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DMP changes tone during its issue due to the manufacture's variation in dye and tactical criticism.  The early 1970s sand was toned down as it bleached with washing to off white,  by the early 1990s the kit had an orange hue.  The last 'ripstop'  issue had the sand restored in a wash resistant dye.  In Banner, the lightweights were commonly worn apart from night and winter.

There are members of this forum better qualified than me, who can give you a good heads up on rules for skirmish style individual basing.

Great work!
Dougie's guide to dpm is a god sent!

Very nice work, that man !

Cheers - Phil

Very nice indeed

Take care

Andy

You could easily go with something like Osprey's "Black Ops" - would work well if you're looking at a dozen a side or so. Might need to trim out/ignore a bit of the chrome, and obviously no ninja's, gangsters and 3rd world militia

Thanks to all. Unfortunately the cruel medium of a mobile phone's camera isn't really doing the paint job justice. On the photos it looks like there are large unpainted areas, which don't appear to the naked eye. Hence this one, cruelly magnifying my paint job but better at showing how I approached the dpm. Basically I painted the whole figure in khakhi, then stripes and blobs of olive green, German cam brown,  and small bits of black. I then washed with a Citadel ink, Earthshade. Beret was Vallejo hull red. I need to work on the face and base. I am going to attempt to 'cam up' the face and will do the base with fine sand stained earth shade and tufty grass from GW range, but still some way to go!

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You are 90% there Graham. Take a  bristle from a hand brush and add a few horizontal strokes of matt black and flecks of sand.   

If Banner - add black NI glovers. And there were still a few wooden stocks around in the 70s, treasured by the old and the bold.  NCO's usually had a SUIT sight - a thin plastic rod will suffice to emulate the Trilux sight.

Cheers

James

Brilliant James! Thank you yet again.

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Not bad at all chap 

Modern camo is really difficult to get right at this scale.

Good job.
I use a 0.1mm pen for the final black swirls.
http://dougieswargamingblog.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Figure%20Tutorial?updated-max=2012-09-14T04:40:00-07:00&max-results=20&start=13&by-date=false

A master class from the not so mad lemmey-  is there any particular  0.1 pen  you would recommend Will ?