I indicated in a previous post that my son was painting up my Fallshirmjaeger figures for us both to use. Here are his photos of the first infantry section to be completed:
The name Fallschirmjaeger comes from Fallschirm meaning “parachute” and jaeger literally “hunter”. They were know as the “Green Devils” by the allies because of the green colour of their jackets and their refusal to give ground.
Below are the steps he has used to paint the camo:
Marking with a fin point pen.
Painting the first colour.
He is a lot better painter than his “old man”!
Marking the second colour with a fin point pen.
Painting the second colour.
I will pick up the squad on the weekend ready for varnishing and basing.
Good progress there and nicely done! 🙂 That squad has quite a few FG42s. I’m a little reluctant to use fine marker pens to mark out camouflage areas after the lines “leaked” through on a couple of Italian ships I painted.
He has deliberately left it to provide an outline which I think works well. Therr are six squads all with a variety of weapons. I think this one (if it is squad 3) has the majority if not all of its soldiers carrying the assault rifle. It is a late war period army.
Its Squad 5, yes in some cases it did smudge, as i was a little impatient and painted straight away. However it got cleaned up with highlights afterwards. And have to be careful with washes.
David S.O.G
Great work and nice explanation.
Your son is doing an excellent job on this, great attention to detail on the camo.
I thin k so and best of all there MINE he is doing!