WW1 American Paint Guides

[axabrax]

Does anyone have any specific recommendations for painting AEF uniforms and the marine forest green?  Also, were the AEF and British Drabs pretty much the same color? If so, I could use the paint suggestions for the Brits from the Great War rulebooks for my Americans as well...

Thanks

AX

[Helen]

If you haven't already seen this link then this may assist you:

http://www.landships.freeservers.com/us_unifs_in_ww1.htm

US Marines I paint using a dark green from Vellejo. I'd use for standard US and later marines a combination of US Drab with Iraqi sand as a base colour. You may try the same with British uniform and US Drab and see the results first before applying a lighter colour.

I'd then apply a lighter shade of the Iraqi sand colour.

The reason I say this is because I use this application in the commencement of painting my later Sikhs. The colour looks right for US Army and later marines.

Chow!

[axabrax]

Thanks for the info. I will try some experiments and post the results if they turn out well.