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Author Topic: Aden - update 12/04  (Read 7724 times)

Offline Dags

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Aden - update 12/04
« on: February 26, 2020, 12:06:37 PM »
Small project for myself to make a slight change from Olive Drab!



Figs from Eureka
« Last Edit: April 12, 2020, 05:06:52 PM by Dags »

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Re: Aden
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2020, 02:12:57 PM »
Very nice.

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Re: Aden
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2020, 06:19:25 PM »
Very nice.

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Re: Aden
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2020, 07:50:50 PM »
Nice figures. Good positions and proportions. And very clean painting technique. Great stuff.
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Re: Aden
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2020, 07:52:09 PM »
Nice figures, well painted.

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Re: Aden
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2020, 08:35:45 PM »
Lovely :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*

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Re: Aden
« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2020, 12:07:34 AM »
Beautiful!  :-*

Of course if you fancy a bit more olive drab, then you can, as photos show British forces in a mixture of khaki and JG.

If you fancy a dash more colour,  there's always the Argyll's in their glengarries.
Em dezembro de '81
Botou os ingleses na roda
3 a 0 no Liverpool
Ficou marcado na história
E no Rio não tem outro igual
Só o Flamengo é campeão mundial
E agora seu povo
Pede o mundo de novo

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Re: Aden
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2020, 12:47:32 AM »
They're next  ;)

Offline carlos marighela

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Re: Aden
« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2020, 07:34:52 AM »
I wish you luck and much patience, the chequered border on the glengarries is a pain in the arse to paint. That said, they are lovely sculpts. I only wish Kosta had done a few personalities. I’d love a Mad Mitch figure.

Some painting inspiration...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOfF7gjE-IU


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Re: Aden
« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2020, 09:11:08 PM »
Hi love the painting and the figures can I ask for a painting guide I really like the paint scheme

Many thanks
Steve

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Re: Aden
« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2020, 10:01:09 PM »
Hi love the painting and the figures can I ask for a painting guide I really like the paint scheme

Many thanks
Steve

No problem...

Uniform is a base of Vallejo Panzer Aces (VPA) British Tanker with Vallejo Model Colour (VMC) Khaki Grey and VPA British Tanker Highlight added for highlights

Webbing is a base of a 50/50 mix of VMC British Uniform and VPA Canvas with VPA British Tanker Highlight  added


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Re: Aden
« Reply #11 on: February 29, 2020, 08:09:05 AM »
Thanks for posting. Wonderful work.
I have some of the figures & Vodkafan is preparing old
Dinky toy vehicles for me, but I haven't been brave
enough to start painting them. Looking forward to
seeing the A & S. Especially the Glengaries.

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Re: Aden
« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2020, 05:17:22 AM »
Thanks for the uniform painting guide, I've just ordered a few packs for myself - I'm sure yet another small project is about to commence

Many thanks
Steve

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Re: Aden
« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2020, 07:10:57 AM »
My Regiment were in Aden in 1964 on Centurions plus Chieftains , yellow/sand and black colour.

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Re: Aden
« Reply #14 on: March 02, 2020, 07:44:28 AM »
16/5 Queens Royal Lancers? No Chieftains in Aden just Centurions. Black ‘n’ sand is how I painted my Cent and photos bear that out but....beware.

What appears in many b&w photos to be black camo on a sand base on Land Rovers, Ferrets and Saladins etc is more likely sand over Bronze Green. Plenty of colour photos show it to be so and you can still make out the shine of the BG paint which was a satin finish post war. Even some of the colour ones that look black are just showing the tonal change between bronze green, which is a very dark colour and sand. I have a couple of Saladins to repaint.