Who paints camo with oils??

[jcichon]

Who here paints camo patterns with oils cause I need the secret cause my camo patterns suck and I use oils so please please help!!

 

[Renéduret]

I do Jason.

it's my first try on a British para at the moment, will have a go at it for the German stuff too.
what's your problem?
If you understand the outlining of some camo, working in oils is just an extension, advantage.
If you don't, you will probably have the same results with different paints.
Tell us something more specificly about your results.

René

 

[jcichon]

Well I tried a waffen ss pea pattern and it was a disaster so I want to use an Italian pattern but I'm just not sure how to highlight and shadow a camo pattern so help is needed!

 

[housecarl]

Calviv Tan covers Italian camo, in his book. But he uses acrylic, so not much use.
Carl.

 

[Einion]

Well I tried a waffen ss pea pattern and it was a disaster...

What kind of problems did you have?

...so I want to use an Italian pattern but I'm just not sure how to highlight and shadow a camo pattern so help is needed!

At a large scale you really need to do each block of colour separately.

At a small scale you can get away with using a single colour for both shadowing and highlighting, although the results are a bit better if you also highlight selectively. More info on the simpler method in this old thread.

Einion

 

[thegoodsgt]

I've had great success using oils for camouflage. The "trick" is minimizing the amount of paint you apply to the figure, using as little as possible to get the coverage you need. It's all too easy to get a big mushy blob of paint that moves all over the place as you try to spread the colors.

I'd recommend you first paint a few figures without shading/highlighting each color and when you're comfortable with that move on to the subtle shading and highlighting that Einion mentions.