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Paint color for germans

Post by tosborne3 » Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:39 am

Hey fellas, exactly what shade of green are the german uniforms and is it available as an acrylic model paint? I've been doing a lot of customs recently but I need the green of the german uniform to complete some of them. Other colors I've been able to mix but the green seems very hard to come by. Any help would be appreciated, thank you. :D
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Post by Col.Pickle » Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:53 am

well I use a tamiya paint called....here it comes...German Grey. It is more gray then green but it works and is only about 3 bucks for a small bottle.
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Post by flpickupman » Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:08 am

Which German uniforms are you trying to replicate?
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Post by tosborne3 » Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:11 am

The Germans that I want to repaint are the first camo guys from the 18 new ones that just came out and a couple of the BOB guys in camo snow uniforms. Jackets with camo pants, etc. I did a few different customs of some of them but I wanted to do a green one. I'll try to post pictures sometimes today when I get them done. Thanks guys!
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Post by flpickupman » Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:50 am

Well, PolyScale has a Panzer Olive Green that might be useful.
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Post by tosborne3 » Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:44 pm

Thanks fellas, I'm going to order some online. :D
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Post by Panzer_M » Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:40 pm

XF-65 Field Grey(Actually a green) for Mid-Late War Uniforms(Heer) and XF-63 German Grey for early campaign grey, Tamiya Paints. Panzer Lehr HBT Panzer Wraps were closer to Olivegrun than Field Grey IIRC.

but really Uniforms were rarely uniform in color, esp in the later years...different materials and different makers all made variants of standard colors.
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Post by tosborne3 » Sat Sep 15, 2007 4:13 pm

Here's the new germans I did. Please tell me what you think!

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A few of them are just head swaps but some of them are painted. Thanks everybody! :D
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Custom painted figures !

Post by MG-42 » Sat Sep 15, 2007 5:48 pm

Excellent job dude ! ... 8)



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Post by Col.Pickle » Sat Sep 15, 2007 7:05 pm

that german in the great coat is awesome!
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Post by tosborne3 » Sat Sep 15, 2007 8:28 pm

Col.Pickle wrote:that german in the great coat is awesome!
Thanks. That dry-brushing works wonders. :D
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Post by immeww2 » Sat Sep 15, 2007 8:49 pm

Looks pretty good to me!! :D
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Post by normandy » Sun Sep 16, 2007 9:03 am

They look Great!
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Post by Col.Pickle » Sun Sep 16, 2007 9:22 am

tosborne3 wrote:
Col.Pickle wrote:that german in the great coat is awesome!
Thanks. That dry-brushing works wonders. :D
Sorry for being naive when it comes to painting techniques but dry brushing is when you wipe of most of the paint before right?
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Post by tosborne3 » Sun Sep 16, 2007 10:36 am

Col.Pickle wrote:
tosborne3 wrote:Thanks. That dry-brushing works wonders. :D
Sorry for being naive when it comes to painting techniques but dry brushing is when you wipe of most of the paint before right?
Yes, that's exactly what dry brushing is. :D
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Post by Panzer_M » Sun Sep 16, 2007 6:08 pm

The Middle Man in the first pic..Red or Pink Piping?

Trying to figure if you gave him a panzer crusher or if he's Sturmartillerie

might just be my screen is off on the color.
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Post by tosborne3 » Sun Sep 16, 2007 6:34 pm

Panzer_M wrote:The Middle Man in the first pic..Red or Pink Piping?

Trying to figure if you gave him a panzer crusher or if he's Sturmartillerie

might just be my screen is off on the color.
It's red, but the brightness of the flash gave em a pink glow. :lol: With that fig I just did an arm swap with a 21st panther commander. the other officer is a head swap and the regular soldier is a melding of a Dragon fig and one of the new 21st guys.The two Dak guys are also Dragon and 21st combos. I'm really just starting to get into doing soldier customs, many of course are only head swaps. I wanted some different uniform designs so I painted on thse bob guys. I got the idea for the bob guys when I went to build-a-rama's page and seen some of the painted figs they had posed with thier dios. www.build-a-rama.com Those machine gun crews are awesome. 8)
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