PaK36 Platoon (15mm)

[Fitz]

This is the 15mm (1:100 scale) PaK36 Anti-tank platoon set from Battlefront. They're mounted in my magnetic sabot bases, so the figures can be used individually if need be.

I'm not sure as yet what I should be using as tows — Horch, perhaps? At the moment all I have are captured CMP trucks and Bren carriers, still in their British livery  

[Mick_in_Switzerland]

That is absolutely amazing for 15mm

[Vis Bellica]

They look amazing. Really good camo.

Care to share your methodology?

[Fitz]

It's pretty simple. All the paints are Vallejo ModelColor except for the shading wash, which is Citadel.

I start with a base coat of Dark Yellow, and add ragged patches and spots of Flat Brown and then German Camouflage Dark Green, to about 70% coverage. The green patches kind of curl around and partially envelope the brown.

Then a coat of Citadel Agrax Earthshade wash to provide some shading, which also slightly darkens the underlying colours. One overall coat is probably enough; if more darkness is required in some folds, the second wash must be applied more precisely as pin-washes or else it will darken the base colours too much.

Last, I add small spots of Dark Yellow in clusters on the dark patches. The spots shouldn't be distributed too evenly, but in bunches of 3-5 with some separation between them. I found I had to do this step after the wash, or else the spots tended to fade into the background.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Very nice, and thanks for the painting method.

[von Lucky]

Very nice painting - the flock is lush!

I'm not sure as yet what I should be using as tows — Horch, perhaps?

Any of the Kfz 69/70 trucks (Horch, Krupp, Steyr):
http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=1458 (also known as a Kfz 15)
http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=2238 (up to early Russia)
http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=1459 (from 1942)

[Ballardian]

Nice work, the camo looks great.

[Marine0846]

Well painted.
Fine work on the men.
Really like the shading on the guns.

[Fitz]

This might give a clearer idea of what I was talking about in the method I described above.

On the left is a figure that's at the point of having had the Agrax Earthshade shading wash applied; you can see the raggediness of the green and brown patches, especially on his helmet.

On the right, I've added tiny spots of Dark Yellow over the top. On this one I actually added too many spots, too evenly distributed — for later figures I clumped them up a bit more.