Sgt. with Partizan camo.

40k scaled version of this:

 Same style as my veterans in my Steel Legion army. Partizan is a copy of flektarn and flektarn is a copy of some of the SS camo in WWII if I am correct. I really like these patterns. Effective and complex (I have tried out flektarn in the bush in australia and it's even good there, but would be amazing if the colours were better suited)

BMD-1 Chimera and first paratrooper finished!!

What do you think of my first weathering powder attempt? too much? too little?

As you can see, I have used some weathering powders.
After all my problems with painting cleanly before, it turns out the paints I were using were too liquidy or didn't have enough pigmens. I used an old codex grey (5 years old maybe?) over a tamiya olive drab spray. I basecoated in chaos black, which then allowed me to drybrush gretchin green to highlight the raised areas. I used fortress grey over the codex grey.

I'm happy with the camoflauge scheme on the BMD. Suitable for urban or natural environments. I was considering using a desert yellow colour aswell, but desert yellow as we know is shit :/ I also didn't want to overwork the pattern.

As for the para I painted, I based it on this:

I need another flesh paint tone.
I painted the scheme (Knarloc Green and bleached bown blobs)
 then used a badab black wash over it. Do you think it's effective?

I can't wait to paint my Hind Valkryie now that I know how!

What the fark am I doing wrong?

HELP! I sprayed my BMD-1 with tamiya colour spray. I didn't use a primer, as apparently you don't need to as the spray itself primes.

I have practically zero experience painting flat colour on tanks. My steel legion armour was easy because it was dry-brushing a lighter colour over black. This time, I am not dry-brushing, merely painting a darker colour over a lighter one (camo and catachan green over khaki) but the thing is, it looks like shit. If I do a single coat the lighter khaki shows through the brush strokes. If I use more paint/ do layers it's too thick and also shit.

The catachan green doesn't even drybrush well at all...

thick and horrible

I'm requesting help on what to do. Do I just add more thin layers and build it up, or buy an air brush.
Also, in either case, to get clean lines for my camo patches I have to mask with blutack /putty right? How do my Imperial Guard comrades paint their camo (if their scheme is dark over light basecoat?)?

Basing 1/3rd of the glorious 2nd Cohort (Building better ash wastes)

Ave!

I have painted all my infantry now!! I now need to base them.

I figured this seems to be a pretty good ash waste look. 

Because-

A- it matches my tanks pretty well

B- it looks cool

C- Ash waste isn't desert. Don't know why GW has the official Steel Legion colour scheme desert, which does not match the tanks.

 That picture above is an actual (mining) ash waste. I figure though, as ash is incredibly fertile, in some parts where the ash isn't constantly falling in Armageddon (not sure how all the ash got there really) plants will be in abundance.

For this, I will mostly use static grass. I plan to make a table to match my army too, at some point. This might be a good static grass to use:

So what I ended up doing was painting a dark brown (scorched brown mixed with black) and watering it down heavily to save SIX DOLLAR game workshop paint. :S  When I started, paints were three Australian Dollars!
Anyway, after dark brown I highlighted with the field grey colour of my infantry. This is a mix of Dark Angels green and Codex Grey.


Here are pics:  
Black/Scorched Brown

 And Fieldgrey (Dark Angels Green + Codex Grey)

Equals this!! All I need now is the dead static grass and a few bitz here and there for the bases.
Now it all makes sense, the troops (who I just finished painting WOOT) now match the tank which matches ash wastes. The troops also match everything because I think field grey is the best all round camo for commonly encountered battlefields. The tanks less so due to the rotting flesh stripes. But they still look heaps industrial therefore awesome.



Adios!