WWII Commandos (caution! may contain yummy dip!)

[Remington]

Hello there.

I am not really sure why I am showing you these, with all the amazing "normally" painted miniatures in this forum, but I find that although they are dipped, the results are quite alright. These are the first section of my commandos for our Secrets of the Third Reich-Bellum Europa games. I am still missing my Commando but since we are playing 2 vs. 2, together with the Sherman they should be enough points. The Tank is a Corgi and 1:50. A bit bigger, but what the hey.

They have been dipped, so I can start playing asap and because I have been criticized (and they are right) that my painting takes forever and I always have to borrow painted miniatures for our games.  These guys where painted in batches of 2s and 4s and 4 of them took about 2 hours. I am using the strong tone dip and Rustin's Varnish to take away the shine. The next section with helmets will be painted the "normal" way. Now I got time.  The bases will be changed a bit tho. Not really happy with these. I went for a muddy look, but somehow I am missing structure.

The hedgehogs, sandbags and barbed wire are scratchbuilt.




The guy with the Bren is my favourite. The sculpt has an amazingly bad-ass look.

Anyway... thank you for reading.

[Calimero]

Those minis are great. I think you manage to achieve a pretty good level of painting despite the little time you had to paint them. I like the bases. I wouldn’t change them if I were you (just my two cents). 

[aircav]

They look great 
The more figures i see 'dipped' the more i'm impressed by it.

[twrchtrwyth]

They look great.

[Malamute]

Nice looking bunch of figures - Artizan (?) the dip certainly works on these fellows.

[Overlord]

Very nice, especially the faces. 
I would be interested to see photos of the same minis pre and post dipping. 
How much "lighter" do you need to paint them before dipping?

[Remington]

Thank you for your comments! Yes, indeed these are Artizan. And fine miniatures they are.

Well, Overlord, I still have to paint the 4 man Command and these will be dipped as well. I could try to create some kind of a before-after log. I could also let you know of the vallejo colours I am using. That could take a little while tho, as I am painting up a little house for our Western Europe setting. I hope I will have it finished by next week. But the darkening of the colours is not that extreme, since I am applying the dip with a brush. Hopefully it will show on photos.

[Janick]

Those look stunning!  :oNicely done.

regards,

Brad