Painting DPM

[pte1643]

A question if I may, inspired by Carl Sambrooks' rather nice Falklands Para figure.

When painting DPM (or other camo patterns for that matter), how do you go about Shading and Highlighting such patterns?

Do you highlight and shade each colour indiviually? Seems a bit labourious!

Or is it done as a whole with one of the proprietry paint filters or washes?

Something I've been wondering for a while now.

Thanks for looking in.

Mark.

 

[Helm]

I avoid it totally by painting Medieval figures The only time I have done anything camo was Steve Readdies excellent WWII Para figure and then I only used darker washes as the figure was meant to look grimy so the high lights were actually the original colour not a lighter shade

Steve

 

[Einion]

When painting DPM (or other camo patterns for that matter), how do you go about Shading and Highlighting such patterns?

Do you highlight and shade each colour indiviually? Seems a bit labourious!

It is. But that's usually the best way.

It's not always practical (or necessary) to paint camo this way though, depending on the scale of the model and to an extent on the type of camo. DPM is one of those where you can get away with not doing it the long-winded way without it looking like you've taken a shortcut, even at bust scales.

Or is it done as a whole with one of the proprietry paint filters or washes?

Filter = glaze BTW. As glaze is the older term, and the one you'll read in any conventional guides to painting, I'd recommend it as the preferable term.

Einion

 

[pte1643]

Cheers for the answers guys.

As for the Filter Vs Glaze part... I just used a term that I'm familiar with, coming into figure painting from the Military Modelling world. No biggie.

 

[housecarl]

Tony Dawe did an SBS on painting DPM.
Might give you some ideas Mark.
Carl.

 

[pte1643]

Carl, That's superb.

Proper detailed sbs... I'm off for a read... I could be gone a while.

Thanks for the pointer.

Mark.

 

[housecarl]

You're welcome.
Carl.

 

[Carl Edward Sambrook]

What I do is do the highlighting and shading on the base colour, and then just paint the lighter brown first then the dark brown and finish off with the black, the black is not pure black but from life color burnt rubber box of 6 colours. Listen to me I sound as if I know what I'm doing !!!!!!

 

[Carl Edward Sambrook]

Spent about 6 hours yesterday painting the jacket on the Scots Guardsman, now I'm going to weather it with the hints people gave me.