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Tau Stealthsuit team in urban colours
I briefly considered painting camo stripes on these models, simply to reproduce what soldiers wear in real life. However, the more I thought about it, the sillier it sounded. The purpose of camo is to break up your outline, blend you into the background, and make any contrasts and shading on your person indistinguishable. Isn't that the exact opposite of what we, as miniature painters, are trying to do with these inch tall models? Instead, I painted the models in camo colours, blending, shading and highlighting as normal. To get that camo effect, I simply painted each alternating segment of armour in black and grey (every other segment was black, the others grey). It gives the impression of camo, but you can still tell at a distance what they are, and that someone went through the trouble of painting them nicely. With camo stripes and dots, if you're painting an infantry model (tanks are different), no matter how much time you spend painting them, they still end up looking like coloured blobs on the gaming table. I don't expect these models to raise my average CMON score, but they helped me promote my line of thinking. Hopefully I've helped some beginner or intermediate painter by presenting him or her with some more options when painting their models.
Posted: 12 Jan 2003
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