RAY GUN!!

[Martin2556]

I think they look really great. I’ve not tried painting figures as I don’t think I could do a realistic enough job on them, top marks to you for your results. Like most things the more you do the better you get, keep it up.

[HERMAN BIX]

Cheers lads, its a chore let me tell ya.
Speaking of which, im getting my pea-dot on..........
Now I have done Pea Dot on helmet covers and caps, with some success, but to go the whole-hog & do a full uniform ?............. never before.
So it is with much trepidation that I do an SS Rifleman in an M42 smock.
This time using a base blend of XF-72 JGSDF Brown and a splash of XF-68 Nato Brown rather than straight XF-52 Flat Earth (see, its flat-they've told us so for Eons & we just dont believe it still, thanks Mr Tamiya for sorting that out ) to enable a better foundation to build from.
Now this figure art/voodoo ritual/exorcism/sado-masochism/self flagellation thing is not my go-to for fun in the hobby let me headline the news .
Its a necessary part of the hobby that does if executed right, make an improvement to a model.
If not.................draws the eye to an object resembling a drunk Clown on his way to or from a Mardi-Gras in a realllll bad way with a poor choice of costume shoved onto your Tank ................

With this in mind, the patches of the light colour was applied to the trousers only for now. If it goes like I predict, at least I have less to recover.
A blend of XF-15 flesh with a dash of XF-69 Desert Yellow in big ísh irregular patches, went on first. Middle of Winter here & its 24C in the sun so no problem getting the paint to cook off ready for the next colour.
Taking Mr Rob59's advice to try and avoid matching patterns over seams, I promptly abandoned hope, began drinking heavily and took my chances
Folks, that guidance while wise and appreciated, is waaaayyyyy harder to follow than the dude makes it out to be !!
A crouching figure with no large surface area and barely discernable seams was a flat HELL NO for me to achieve that.
Next was some blobs of XF-27 Black Green to provide the darker patches. Not going dark enough last time was an error I feel so the Black Green was about the right step up.
Then some dots of Vallejo 70.833 German Camo Bright Green to get the lighter spots that I feel let me down on the Berg crewmans kit.
Straight away it was better. I get the theory of a good Tradesman never blames his tools for a failure, but hey, a tradesman with the wrong tool for the job has a high likelihood of failure without it.
The bright green made a hell of a difference. Would have made the poor ole Berg mechanic a lot better I reckon.
Dots of it, dots of base, dots of Black Green, dots of base light flesh and the pants are basically done.

I reckon his smock might get Planetree

[Martin2556]

Coming along nicely, looking forward to seeing him finished, he’s going to look great.

[Rob59]

As you can see below, there were quite some camo patterns back then:

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So Mr. B, in fact you cannot go wrong on these!
Just go on and you‘ll be fine!
Start with the base color,
Next make larger patches of the darkest color,
Finally start dotting the lightest color.
Do not over do, always try to keep bigger parts of the base color visible.

May I speak freely?
No hard feelings, just trying to get you onto the right track….
That trousers with all the dots….hmm….maybe a bit too much, if I may say so.
No need to change, just add a wash so the colors get a bit flattend, you know what I mean?
It is not that hard to do, I really like that pattern.
Much easier to do compared to that Splittertarn Camo.

Here are the guys laying on ny StuG Project, so you see what I meant about showing that base color:

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[Rob59]

No clue why that jacket shows up underneath both StuG pics.
If I want to edit, that pic isn‘t even there…..

Mr.B about that kneeling soldier.
Been looking at it over and over again, trying to figure out which part makes it too much…..
I think, you shouldn‘t have added that light brown/dunkel gelb color to the trousers.
Just the base color and both green colors and it would have been perfect!
No offense…..

Look at these for example:

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[HERMAN BIX]

Appreciate the input Mr '59, its all about finding a way for me, and any insight you offer certainly is not taken offence to.
The pattern I was going after is Erbsenmuster 44 and it has gazillions of dots!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erbsenmuster.
Again not having a full set of paints designed to do the job, I had to improvise.
I really need this set ;

https://ak-interactive.com/product/pea- ... senmuster/

Hoping to flatten out the starkness with a wash to calm it all down a bit.

[Rob59]

Hi Mr.B
I do have that AK paintset too.
When you put that camo pattern on, maybe you should start with a lighter base coat.

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But as I said before, there were so many patterns you can‘t go wrong in fact!
I enjoy your work, keep on trying so one day you will become the Master Figure Painter on here!
Rob.

[HERMAN BIX]

Well for better or worse, its on.
And I can say I wont be rushing back to do another one!
Still a lot to do on him from here.