Painting WWII Gurkhas, Chindits, and Japanese

[fourcolorfigs]

I took the plunge and ordered some TAG WWII Chindits and Gurkhas. Lovely models. Anyway, I am looking for some kind of painting guide for them. Or just some advice right here. I have a bunch of Foundry Paints, but by no means all of them. I also have access to just about the entire line of Vajello paints.

Any advice is much appreciated!

Scott

[fourcolorfigs]

Just found this:

http://www.theassaultgroup.co.uk/pages/page.php?Chindits-29

Could I apply this scheme to my Gurkhas?

[matakishi]

My British guide:
http://www.matakishi.com/paintingburmabritish.htm



My Japanese guide:
http://www.matakishi.com/paintingburmajapanese.htm

[white knight]

Which reminds me to ask. How did you do the bases on these?

[matakishi]

Same as my Vietnam bases

I bought some leaf litter and some creeper/vines packs from Antenocitti’s Workshop
http://www.barrule.com/Workshop/index.html

The bases themselves are plasticard although I'm moving over to wooden ones now.

First I selected which three figures I wanted to base together and arranged them in a pleasing manner. The figures were glued to the base with superglue. Once the superglue was fully dried the bases were covered in a layer of green Basetex. To this were added the vines, lichen, fronds and any rocks or fallen tree branches that were needed. The rocks were stones of course and the branches twigs. Some bases had some height added with long grass made from a badger bristle shaving brush. I’ve been using the same shaving brush for scenery since my father gave it to me over twenty years ago and it still hasn’t run out. The Basetex is all that’s needed to hold these items in place; once it’s dried they’ll be held firmly. Finally the leaf litter was sprinkled liberally over everything and the base was set aside to dry. I could only manage about four or five bases in an evening, they were very time consuming. I spent a full weekend doing the final thirty bases at the end of the project.
Once the bases had dried overnight the extra leaf litter was knocked off into its container and the creepers were trimmed with scissors. Finally the base edges were painted with Foundry 11A Rawhide. The surface of the bases were drybrushed with Foundry 11C Rawhide, going over some of the creepers and leaf litter as needed and making sure to cover all the rocks so they had a uniform appearance.

[fourcolorfigs]

Thanks, Matakishi! As always you're a font of miniature modeling wisdom. Much appreciated!

[white knight]

Thanks, I have to get me some of this stuff for my japanese.

[Emir of Askaristan]

Great pix and great advice Matakishi,

Where did you get the model palms shown in your photo's they look great.

[matakishi]

They were hand made by Todd McQuaid (Bravo Six).