Sunday, June 8, 2014

The Desert Rats


Here and there I have put a few spots of paint on the British units from the Medeterranian expansion.  First, an example of the infantry.


I will be taking a few of these and converting them to have berets, which should be fun!


Now some Crusader tanks for support!


I had seen a few reference images of a desert camo scheme, and that seemed to be the best idea, as opposed to simple tan.


I did stumble across a happy accident as I painted them.  As I was painting one of the tanks, I dropped it in my paint water!  This has happened a number of times when I am holding a figure that is not pinned or attached to something else.

While the water was still on the tank, I took some of my darker colors and placed them on the tank, allowing the water to do the blending work for me!  That was a very pleasant surprise.


I also used some of the markings that I had discovered.


I look forward to doing the rest of these, and the terrain sets that will go with them!!!


3 comments:

  1. Those look good, except that the British infantry are wearing Japanese helmets for some reason.... Nice Crusader tanks though,

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  2. Good, point...but as this artist did not sculpt the minis, perhaps remarking to Days of Wonder would make a lot more sense. They are the responsible party. Nice paint jobs, however.

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  3. I'm not blaming the artist for the models, just wondering at the design. The tin hat is a pretty quintessential indicator of British troops, it's strange that it's not modeled accurately. Not a big deal either way I guess.

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