My current project at hand is a 1:10 bust of a SS machine gunner.
The face is done:
Now comes the hardest part: the camouflage uniform in pea pattern.
Base colour and high and low lights are on…
Wish me luck with the camo pattern!
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Just take it slow Erwin- every so often put it down and look at it for a bit to see the progress- and of course good luck!
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Thanks Karl,
I don’t think it is possible to rush this in any way. I will have to painstakingly try and replicate the original pattern:
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Before you get started, the figure appears to be wearing the late pattern camouflaged smock which would be in “Oak Leaf” or similar rather than “Pea”. I’d be interested to know the provenance of that colour picture of a smock in “Pea”. It looks a bit bright to me, suspect it’s a modern fake. In 50 years of studying the Waffen SS, I’ve never seen a photo of a genuine “Pea” smock. You have to understand they are not just different garments, they are different materials. The smock is cotton “duck”, the “Pea” clothing is drill, a completely different fabric which totally lacks the showerproof qualities of the smock. Smocks were screen printed, a laborious process. By contrast the “Pea” pattern clothing was machine printed, not an option on the smock material. The “Pea” smock pictured also lacks the white sections in the print where the patterns fail to overlap properly and the fabric shows through; this is very characteristic of genuine clothing.
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Thanks for your extensive reply… If the smock is a different pattern, the colours will be different too! Darn! That means that the set I bought is basically useless… I will have to see what colours I need then…
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Calvin Tan has painted numerous WSS patterned camo over the years and you can hardly go wrong with his advice. Don’t be discouraged by his remarkable talent though.
The RHS sidebar lists all his work so it’s easy to find the WSS ones.
Good luck!
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It is from a Evilbay ad..
The seller does not claim it is an original smock, yet he does not say it is a replica either…
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Thanks… I will have to buy some new paints to get the correct colors… I will use the colors included in the Calvin AK set. Pity. I really like how it turned out now…
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Yes, I concur. I have his book on Waffen SS figures. While it does not cover all permutations it is a good primer on painting SS camouflage. Correct patterns are shown in plates within the chapters and he recommends paints and colours.
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To be honest, if you were happy to go with the browns of an Autumn pattern, the work done so far would be a good grounding.
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