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Spraying German Armour

Spraying German Armour

Postby berger15 » Mon Dec 10, 2012 4:56 pm

Hello all,

Quick question - how close to middlestone, is the German Armour (Desert) spray by Flames of War? I really do not want to hand paint tanks as I have a fear of the "brush-stroke" look! And the Schurzen means there is quiet a bit of flat armour to paint. :?

Also, does anyone use a "wash" on the infantry, and if so, which one(s)? I have tried a black wash on the clothes and flesh wash on the skin. The skin was fine, but the black wash was either too watery to sit in the creases and had no effect, or dulled the field grey so much it looks very dark.

Cheers! :D
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Re: Spraying German Armour

Postby markb » Mon Dec 10, 2012 5:42 pm

I'm not sure about the new stuff but before they changed it it was the same as the colour base coat you would use from the Vallejo paint sets. I've never painted German infantry but I used the Vallejo brown wash on my Soviets. Which wash are you using?
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Re: Spraying German Armour

Postby berger15 » Mon Dec 10, 2012 8:14 pm

Thanks Mark, I may give the spray a go.
I have tried using the quickshade strong tone, but that is too brown, so I have moved over to the GW washes (as I have those right now), but not having much joy. I think I may just stay with them, but lighten the basecoat with some white, so the black wash does not take the tone down too much.
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Re: Spraying German Armour

Postby skywalker » Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:23 pm

The new desert yellow is a lot lighter than middlestone. I tried it on a few tanks and was not happy with the colour so I gave them a wet brush of middlestone which has brought it closer to the original spray paint colour.
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Re: Spraying German Armour

Postby Taumaul » Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:30 pm

Dont forget guys the dunkelgelb base colour on German armour varied depending on how much petrol was added to thin the paint.
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Re: Spraying German Armour

Postby berger15 » Tue Dec 11, 2012 2:52 pm

Cheers chaps. May just try painting the middlestone on one and spraying another to see how different they are. I have thought about doing a German desert force so the spray would not be wasted!
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Re: Spraying German Armour

Postby DaBoss » Tue Dec 11, 2012 4:33 pm

I was lucky to pick up a Vallejo dunkelgelb/middlestone Primer Bottle (250ml) from Maelstrom last year (next visit I picked up a bottle of Russian Tank Green). This Primer had a much thinner mix than in the small bottles from Vallejo/Battlefront, found that it washed over the Tank Armour very well covering easily and the brush strokes melted away (I always use my GW Tank Brush for this).

Then added Camo colours Green and Brown, finally used the GW wash Devlin Mud very lightly for two coats (plus extra dabs where I wanted deep shadow). Worked a treat in making the dunkelgelb darker and worn.

I've cheated with my British Desert Tanks and early war German Grey by using the spray cans then drybrushing and light ink wash - thinking of using Agrax Earthshade for the British Desert as Devlin Mud might be too dark.

For my German Infantry - I've used the paints shown in the FoW books and then given a light covering of Devlin Mud all over; clothes, guns, flesh - all the same; on the table top you can't see that much difference.
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