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PAINTING
THE UNIFORM
Of
the paints that I listed in the materials lesson, take the paint number
830 (German Grey). I believe that this paint most resembles the colour
of the German uniforms, although I should point out that, in reality,
these could be made up of different tones, according to how worn out
it is, how dirty it is, how much exposure it has had to the sun (heat
from the desert or the coldness of Russia in the winter.
In
our case, the figure that we have chosen is one that has been fighting
on the Eastern Front (the siege of Leningrad, Russia in 1941). If
we place him in this era we know that it was cold (start of autumn
of this year), but it hadn't started to snow. Therefore, we don't
have to dirty the figure too much. In other courses, I will show you
how to make the figures look dirty depending on the area and the time
of year.
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Pour
paint number 830 into a plastic container and add a drop of water.
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Now
we are going to paint the officer's uniform with the colour that I
mentioned previously and then we are going to allow it to dry. Sometimes
it can take a long time to dry or sometimes it can look a bit shiny.
To avoid this look I paint the figure, leave it for a few minutes
and then dry it with a hairdryer (you can see it leaves a very matt
colour). As you can see when modeling, you frequently have to use
your imagination.
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Go
over the paint again with another coat of paint 830 and dry it off
again with a hairdryer.
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