Sunday, 19 January 2020

Painting the remnants of my Fallschirmjager

Finishing off the FJs

I painted a platoon of FJ from Great Escape Games, which are a mixture of Artizan Designs models and Wargames Foundry, last Christmas (2018), but for some reason left 5 models on the lead mountain. I picked them up a couple of days ago and thought that I would finish them off.

Here are a couple of pics of some of the finished models.





Here are the work-in-progress models with just some of the base colours blocked in so far.



One thing that I have really noticed in the intervening 12 months is that my eyesight and my memory have both deteriorated significantly! For the life of me, I cannot remember the original colours that I used for the completed models; and secondly, I'm really struggling to see the detail when painting.  I borrowed my son's magnifying glass yesterday evening and looked at the 5 guys I am trying to paint. ;-(  It looks like a trip to Specsavers is in order to get some reading glasses.

2 comments:

  1. Nice looking early FJs there. Top tip... if you list your paint colours into a blog post about the models, in the future you can look back and determine what paints you used for the project. I've found it helpful!

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  2. Thanks for the tip. Definitely going to do that because I can't match the paint colours of the last 5 minis to the rest of the platoon. I thought I had done a base colour of Vallejo Russian Green for the jump smocks with Vallejo Green Grey highlights, but...nope!

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