Artizan British Airborne Snipers and PIAT

[Muddypaw]

Finished the latest batch of my Brits. Hopefully just a jeep, machine gun and mortar left to go and then I am ready to start on the opposition 

The berets are much darker in the 'flesh', I need to fiddle with the camera and editing settings.

[Mr.J]

Wow! Very nice!

[Mad Carew Snr]

Excellent work. I really like the snipers - how did you do the camo netting? 

[Calimero]

They are really, really nice! 

[Janick]

  Those are stunning!!!! Fantastic work.

regards,

Brad

[dodge]

Love the camo'd troops excellent

well excellent all round really

dodge

[myincubliss]

No druid? 

[Muddypaw]

Hah forgot to post the druid. He's now over in the Weird War forum, with his leafy companion.

[Helen]

Great paint work MP, I really like the way you painted the hessian on the snipers.

Helen

[Muddypaw]

Oh and as to how I did the netting-

The netting was purchased from Antenocitie's who do a bunch of great scenery building stuff. The leaves were bought here http://www.barrule.com/Workshop/scratch%20builders%20paradise/leaves,%20feuilles,%20blatter,%20fogli.html and the netting if a fine muslin mesh which I also purchased from Antenocitie, but I cant see it on their website any more so it maybe out of production. Surgical gauze will do just fine too.

The netting was left in a mug of hot, strong tea for as long as needed to get the correct shade for my needs. Once dry, I immediately made another cup of tea (to drink this time!) and dabbed on random ink blobs in mossy green and dark brown to match the camo of the sniper. It was then cut to size to roughly fit the miniatures when draped over them.

I heavily diluted a small amount of white wood glue (till it was basically white water) and dipped the netting in, and dabbed the excess off on a kitchen towel. Then I draped the net over the model, pressing the folds gently into the contours of the model and draping it so the folds fell naturally. Once dry I used a brush to lightly dab on more heavily diluted wood glue over the netting, so that once dried it held it's shape and became stiff.

Small dabs of undiluted wood glue were then dotted onto the camo net and individual pieces of leaf litter glued on as needed. Once happy with the coverage, I felt the leaves were lacking contrast so I dabbed on a thin wash of brown over each one just to give them a little more depth. If desired, blobs of static grass could also be glued on too, but I wanted to leave key features of the model visible underneath.

Once the whole model was finished, I used a spray varnish to cover the whole thing, and voila, ghillie sniper!