US MARPAT camo

[whiffwaff]

Has anyone attempted the new US dazzle camo? Am stumped as to where to start!

Cheers

Adam

[Barks]

Intriguing- got any pics?

[Grimmnar]

Intriguing- got any pics?

Nope. Too dazzling.  :-)

Grimm

[CptJake]

 

[whiffwaff]

Doh thought I'd added a link.

It's actually called MARPAT

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARPAT

Cheers

Adam

[ErikB]

Or do you mean the Army's high-visibility "camo", called ACUPAT or UCP, designed to get our soldiers killed equally well on all battlefields....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Camouflage_Pattern

[whiffwaff]

Yup that sort of thing but the desert Marine version as worn by the SEALS in Zero Dark Thirty.
 

[The Travelling Man]

It's not even that simple- the SEALs in Zero Dark Thirty were wearing a mix of a cam pattern called AOR1 and 2 (along with some items in Multicam). AOR is a pattern developed for Navy Special Warfare. At a glance, the desert pattern version looks very similar to USMC desert MARPAT- the differences are too small to replicate on a miniature.

When I painted desert MARPAT on my 20mm Helmand Marines a few years ago I went with a suitable base colour (a Vallejo Tan or Iraqi Sand or similar I can't remember), painted all of their kit in Coyote Tan, did boots, weapons etc and then hit the miniatures with painted on Medium Tone Army Painter Dip.

The Dip creates stains on the uniform areas which for me looks close enough to the MARPAT pattern. The real MARPAT pattern is hard to discern once its a little faded and/or is covered in dust (I have a set here and the pattern disappears at any sort of distance).

Anyway, worked for me- fast and looks good.

[ErikB]

I made some ACUPAT with a stone basecoat and stipling a green and a gray green.  It turned out rather realistic but not so artistic, if that makes sense.  I wasn't quite sure how to add wash/ink and drybrush some sort of wear or fading, so I left them as they were.  Certainly table-top standard.

And echo what was said above about the SEAL version of MARPAT.  For minis, it's the same.

Try looking at Empress's or Eureka's website.  They have a SEAL team with a dog and they've done a good job capturing the look.

http://www.beastsofwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Eureka-Miniatures-SEAL-Team-6-Image1.jpg

http://www.beastsofwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Eureka-Miniatures-SEAL-Team-6-Image-2.jpg