Nice builds.
Right from my “color shower”. SPW-50 and SPW-40P. Tamiya NATO Green is a good substitute for TGL 2425 Olivgrün.
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Very nice work Hermann; you can never have too much NVA (which is not something I would have said during the Cold War!)
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Wise spoken Brian. Now come the Fleissarbeit.. Building Trmpeter indy tracks with two guidehorns per shoe.
Also thinking about getting PT-76 kits. One of my shops has them discounted.
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Looking good
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A provisional setup. Truppenaufklärer getting new orders. I build an universal base on the bottom of a Trumpeter showcase. The VC is from Germania Figuren and the obligatory pointing German Officer is from Valkyrie Model.
P.S. I need to find an easy way to paint Einstrich-Keinstrich camo.
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All good stuff Hermann!
As for the uniform camouflage; all you can do I feel is go for an effect. In scale, one wouldn’t see the “raindrops” at all I feel, so you could just paint a sort of earth-brown/grey mix and have done with it.
If, however, you wish to attempt something then my method is like this:
First, obviously a base colour. I normally mix a brown/grey colour. Then, you will need to obtain one of these:
and using the pen apply very short lengths of colour to represent the raindrops; obviously overscale but I feel it adds something appropriate:
You may disagree of course!!
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Hi Brian, a pencil is a good idea, i would never come to that. NVA had two type of base colors,
one Dark Tan and one light Olive Green. So plenty of options.
More brownish
More olive
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You did good job at small figure. How did you added small pavel in tiny AK buttstock?
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If you mean the textured effect on the weapon, that is all down to the designers/sculptors; the figure is one from the Valkyrie set
I still have not completed my plans for this set(!)
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Hi Brian,
I made a test with a pencil and it worked like a charm. Thank you.
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A good article about NVA Camouflage uniforms.https://www.camopedia.org/index.php/East_Germany
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I decided to build my SA-9 Gaskin on Trumpeter base, using only a few components of the original DML kit.
DML kit on the right.
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