WIP Critique Camo help

[Andrew Craft]

Hi guys,
I'm attempting my first ever camo. I think the pattern is called desert tri colour. I wanted some feedback on it before I get too far along, I'm aiming for a well worn look, a little faded. Just want to know if the pattern looks right or needs adjusting. I still plan to dirty it up a bit. I'm not into the military stuff at all so I'm pretty clueless and relying on google images and your expertise.
Thanks,
Andrew

 

[tonydawe]

The colours look reasonably good Andrew. I've found that the key to recreating a good disruptive camoflague pattern is to avoid regular shapes and uniformity.

The other thing that helps is to remember that the camoflague pattern does not overlap the seams on the trousers but ends abruptly at the seam.

Good luck mate.

 

[housecarl]

Looks good to me Andrew. I don't know if this will help?
Carl.

 

[Andrew Craft]

Thanks Tony I did guess that with the seams luckily.
Thanks Carl that is helpful, the blobs (I'm sure thats the technical term) on the pattern look a lot bigger on those pics than what I have done, can they vary in size?
I also found these pics that I thought were cool of the guy it must be modeled off. I was aiming for something like the second pic where you can only just see the pattern hopefully when I add some weathering it will be close. I'd love to see a bust of that first pic!

 

[Babelfish]

All very "Chuck Norris". But good!

- Steve

 

[JasonB]

The pattern is going to be standard, since the uniforms are all cut from the same bolts of cloth, so there wouldn't be huge variations in it. In fact, if you look at the back of the blouse in that picture Carl posted, you can see where the pattern repeats itself. In the real world, the greenish color almost blends into the base stone color once the pants fade and get a bit soiled, and many times its hard to tell there are three colors. Unless you are going to show him in a fresh uniform, keep things on the faded side. Basically paint the base 50/50 tan and green, and then paint the brown squiggles. Note the the brown follows along the edge of the camo between the green and tan, and isn't standalone, smack in the middle of either one. To me, the key on camo of this type is keeping it subdued, and not bright so that the pattern really stands out.

 

[Andrew Craft]

Thanks guys, looking at it the tan colour is has too much yellow in it and there isn't enough green. I'll adjust it tomorrow

 

[JasonB]

For the base color, I have always used a very light gray color with just a touch of yellow (or much lightened tan with a tiny bit of black) to make it grayish-tan. The pattern isn't so much green blobs on top of tan, but a tan background with large swaths of light green ( Tamiya XF-21 "Sky

is a good match IMHO for the faded green)or I mix a small amount of green, black and lots of white when using my Walmart brand acrylics.Everything I do is pretty much the "Looks about right" method. Keep the edges on the green fairly smooth and round, not really jagged or too pointed.

 

[Andrew Craft]

Thanks Jason, I was using this pic originally for the shapes so I did jagged buts of green but I'll adjust those too.

 

[Andrew Craft]

Here is the piece after adjustments today, hopefully it's a bit closer to what it should be.

 

[homellop]

have a look here:
http://www.timelinesforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=432

cheers