Good day and good week everyone!
Some days ago, I bought Italeri's (ex Esci) US Paratroopers (#6063), which is one of my favourite sets, mainly because it has so many firing poses....what's there not to love? :-)
Last weekend I painted some of them, in order to decide what colour I should use for their uniforms. In the Normandy campaign US Airborne troops wore desert coloured uniforms (same colouring as in N. Africa and Italy). After some experimentation with colours I decided to use Vallejo's MC 70.879 Green Brown, which is a bit brown, and I think it should do the job properly. The webbing is painted with Vallejo's MC 70.924 Russian Uniform.
I also tried to paint the details on their shoulder patches (right shoulder - American Flag, left shoulder - 101'st Screaming Egles). The result was not very...dissapointing.
More painted figs to follow in the following days! :)
I hope you like 'em!
T.
I love them!! Great painting Thanos.
ReplyDeleteNice work as usual Thanos.I hated the earlier colour of the uniform, I gather they stood out like a cow in a chicken coop.
ReplyDeleteI hate the fact you painted on patches, they look too darned good!
Regards Paul
Great work, Thanos! I like the way you paint them very much!
ReplyDeleteExcellent work and good work with the patches my friend....
ReplyDeleteGreat work Thanos; your eyes are clearly better than mine!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful work Thanos, I love the patches. Ben B.
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Excellent paint job
ReplyDeleteVery nice work, I'd not really considered this set before but they've painted up really nicely. Good call on the uniform colour and great work on the patches. Not sure about the number of fixed bayonets, but I guess that would be easily changed if needed.
ReplyDeleteThis is such a great set! I had the US Paras when I was younger and luckily I still have a handful of them! Thank you for posting and nice work painting them!
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