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
