Wehrmacht Uniform Fieldgrey (1 Viewer)

[Wolfgang_UK]

Trying to brighten up a little over my present workbench chaos I started to do some testpainting
on my converted and casted figurines.
Trying to find a somehow matching colour to represent the true figure painters nightmare of the shade of Feldgrau - fieldgrey I just played around with colour-mixes and various hues.
Nothing serious yet. This is the link to my CASTING - Thread.


http://www.treefrogtreasures.com/fo...A-bid-of-sculpting-casting-and-a-little-magic

 

[Mirof]

Humbroll Matt111

 

[theBaron]

It should have just the slightest tinge of green, especially compared to the Feldgrau the old Imperial army used. But once you take weathering and fading into account, you have a lot of leeway.

Your castings are excellent!

Prost!
Brad

 

[Hazebrouck]

The figure on the right looks good Wolfgang.

The Vallejo German Field Grey has a definite tinge of green as Brad suggests.

I wouldn't lose sleep over the colour as there seemed to be a lot of variation due to manufacturer, age and materials.

Scott

 

[Wolfgang_UK]

Thank you all for your likes and comments. All the pictures shown are just test-painting {sm2} they actually ought to document the search for the right kind of paint as well as the right hue of Feldgrau.
None of the colours I used are ready made colours straight from the bottle, but mixes of yellow blue and brown etc. I do not use Enamels nor the standard Acrylics but nitro-based paints or/and acrylic Gouache.
Often insufficient attention is paid to the fact that each hue seems to have a "Scale" somehow meaning a colour might look just right on a 1/72 scale figure but no way good on a 1/30 figure.
Due to my observation it is certainly is not a simple cure just adding white or black to the base-colour.
I am working on my 70mm figures hoping to find just the right colour to look convincing, nice and authentic. After all painting a figurine is more about creating an illusion than pin point accuracy. Most likely the recipe for the "right" colour is the combination of plenty .
Some manufactures choose rather bright hues that sometimes seem to come straight out of a paintbox but with excellent results. Some use stark contrast between medium, light and shadow colours aided by painting thin black (brown) borderlines.
Since there always is room for conducting experiments I wonder where I will end up with my efforts^&confuse.
Meanwhile the second generation of test painted troops is almost done. I am happy with my newly found flesh-colour-mix that finally got my approval.
For obvious reasons I do not own a pad printing machine so there is plenty of room to experiment on how to present sharp and colourful details on a soldiers uniform. Might have been lucky this time.
Hope to get something finished real soon.
Thank you very much for your interest
Regards
Wolfgang
:salute::

 

[Wolfgang_UK]

Just to illustrate the different hues of Feldgrau