Raid Incoming! Speed Painting WW2 Allied Commandos [How I Paint Things]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2024
- The Commandos were formed in 1940 at the personal behest of Winston Churchill, wanting a force capable of carrying out raids and disrupting German operations throughout occupied Europe. Volunteers all, from across every branch of the British Armed Forces and including a handful of foreign nationals intent on taking the fight to the Axis forces and ensuring that no matter where they were stationed, no rear-line guard or bored sentry would ever be completely at ease...
Trained to the highest standards and equipped with their pick of whatever equipment necessary to get the job done - from the Vickers K machine gun, the Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife, Colt .45 pistols, or the formidable Thompson submachine gun - they were a thorn in the side of Axis forces wherever they struck, destroying fuel dumps, factories, munitions and accounting for scores of enemy casualties. This lead to the issue of Der Kommandobefehl - The Commando Order - that mandated any captured Commandos were to be executed without trial, such was the fear they engendered in German high command.
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00:00 - Intro
00:35 - Painting Time!
13:04 - The Finished Product
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PAINTS USED:
PRIMER:
Vallejo English Uniform Spray
VALLEJO:
English Uniform
Brown Rose
Russian Uniform WWII (or Citadel Death Guard Green for lighter finish)
Dark Sand
Leather Brown (or black for regular boots)
Flat Earth
Cork Brown
Beige Brown (for wooden details)
German Grey
German Camo Medium Brown (or any hair colour you like!)
Beige Red
CITADEL:
Waaagh Flesh (Base)
Agrax Earthshade (Shade)
Loren Forest (Layer)
Iron Warriors (Base)
SPRAY VARNISHES:
Vallejo Matt Varnish - เกม
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Honestly, this is the best paint tutorial for historical wargaming I've ever seen! Fantastic results!
Thank you , Troy .
love your historical contents!
I definitely need to steal that cardboard priming trick some time. I always get so anxious when it comes to drybrushing!
You should! Thrash the cardboard and you'll have less to worry about when you get near the miniature, you can't go wrong with it.
I believe all boots were brown. However other ranks were required to black them with polish and were issued them pre blacked.
Officers kept them brown cos officers.
Never believed the pink would show so nice at the end. :)
Right? It looks absolutely shocking going on, but even after just the drybrush and shade it's fairly good. The highlights make it look much more natural - the highly saturated pink dulls nicely under the brown shade.
Very nice demonstration! Kudos!
The Boy Scout beret was the same colour after the Baden Powel hat was replaced. It faded to a sort of Lovat Green but I’d have to pick it from a Vallejo colour chart if I can dig one out. Green is one of those colours badly affected by the sun as is some blue dyes and motor vehicle paints.
Thank you
The officers were issued with the same boots as the men , DMS rubber based soles . Officers boots and traditional British and commonwealth troops had hob nails on the soles , from a tactical perspective, this created a lot of noise especially in gravel. However this was not a problem for rubber based soles .
As you can appreciate all of Commando’s equipment and ideas were pioneered by Sir Winston Churchill!
Really helpful tutorial, used the colour scheme to paint some Classic Doctor Who Unit soldiers.
Great video! Would love to see your whole collection
This is just the first Commando! The rest, well... that'd take a while. 😅
Duder was looking like Patrick from Spongebob before that Agrax.
It is PROPER PINK. I recall the first time applying it and thinking to myself, "Oh no, I've made a right mess of this..."
Very Nice mate!!!
Great video as always , ile have to pick me a box of these commandos 👍👍
You should! They're a great kit. :D
How is your primer always so beautiful and smooth
Warm it gently, and give it a good shake before you use it. I usually tuck the primer can under my arm for 8-10 minutes before using it while I'm preparing other stuff, then go out and shake for thirty seconds or so. I've primed miniatures in near zero temperatures - if it's too *hot* and humid you'll get dusty primer, but in normal circumstances the easiest solution to most priming problems is to just warm it up slightly.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio I’ll have to give that a go! Thank you.
Super timing Sonic - just putting a batch of these together, would AP Skeleton Bone spray primer be a suitable alternative to the VA spray?
Yeah, that'd be my choice if you don't have the Vallejo primer. It'll take a couple of thin passes of English Uniform over the top, but it'll look warmer and a little more natural than doing it over a grey.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Many thanks! Considering that I use your videos for most of my Bolt Action projects I thought I had better join your Patreon :) keep up the great content!
Cheers! :D Welcome aboard. I certainly hope these carry on being useful!
even though I don't play historical wargames these videos are still really informative (they also give me tips on my Imperial Guard color schemes)
I want this kit just for the backpacks to use for my Necromunda Orlocks
I'm not quite sure how they'd fit against the Orlock bodies, honestly. The packs are open at one side and designed they sit flush with the plastic British bodies, so you'd probably have a little green stuff work to make them fit to the Necromunda figures. No big issue, though!
Hey I just found your content today and I'll say, you have this dialed in!
I'm just getting back into the hobby after a 2 year hiatus but I just can't get a camo pattern right. Do you think you could help me with painting Russian Partizan camo?
Thank you, have a good one!
Welcome aboard! :D
Camo is all just a series of splotches, after a while - especially at this scale. I'd probably suggest the best place to start would be either the Bad Squiddo video I did with the amoeba patterns on the scouts, or check out the more modern multicam guide for some suggestions. I've done a few camo-related videos recently, so it'll be a little bit before I cycle back around on the subject for now, I'm afraid.
Excellent tutorial and beautiful mini, are they compatible with Stargrave minis?
They're definitely the same scale, so things like the packs and heads would probably fit with a little glue and filling.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio thanks 👍😁
Very cool. I will say I preferred when you use Citadel Paints because it’s easier or me to follow along.
It's a little hard with some historical stuff to find a perfect match when it comes to Citadel paints, but there's usually a 'close enough.' I am planning at some point to do another guide on these for people coming over to WW2 gaming from GW stuff and likely already have a large number of paints, though.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Every so often I do a weak Google Search to see if some one has made a pdf or web posting that cross-references Citadel to Vallejo military colors and no luck yet.
This tends to do the job: redgrimm.github.io/paint-conversion/index.html
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio thanks!
Very interesting to see how well the PINK skin came out. I will be trying that. If only I could find a UK source for Vallejo primers though. A real game changer.
If all else fails, a couple of coats of English Uniform will look best over something like Skeleton Bone from Army Painter or Citadel's Wraithbone, in my experience. A grey will work but can make the uniform look a lot more green than it ought to be, I find.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Both those are solid primer choices. Cheers.
You can try Element Games
Way too late to teh party, but Colour Forges Ossified Earth looks like a good match too.@@CullodenPaintingStudio
@@JimmyCrawford If I am painting British uniforms any time soon I will check that out. Cheers.
I was expecting the base flesh tone to go horrible wrong 🥴🙈.turned out all right in the end👍
Bit of magic that, eh? 😂
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio 👍
Pointing a flashlight at those solar powered turntables usually gets them going. At least on mine it will.
I wish it were a little easier than requiring another tool for the job, but oh well! It's probably worth having one for some of the resin prints I need to cure, too.
as usual lookin good !!! i have to apply the agrax earthshade to another 20 imperial guard and i will have 40 infantry painted! thanks to your scheme only 40 more to go! halfway there! haha thanks for letting me use your scheme it is perfect! stay safe my internet pal!
Very minor nitpick, but shouldn’t he have a holster? Maybe I just overlooked it. I really like how that skin turned out.
He would, but it went shooting across the room when I clipped it from the sprue and then I couldn't be bothered to search the rug for it. ;D
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio 😂😂 Been there.
Amazing just getting better and better top job old lad 👍🏻
Great tutorial. Having worn one of those berets to work for years, I’d go with the flat green. That said, time in the field, sun fading and such does fade them out over time.
Interesting! I'd have thought the Waaagh Flesh would look more faded, but I think I'll bow to your experience in the future on that one. ;D
A little kit bashing I like it a lot, love kit bashing, very nice paint job.
Doesn't take much to get a little something different for your own forces - one of the big bonuses for plastic kits, in my opinion. Plus the Commandos box has so many interesting little bits to play with.
@0:54 Man, you gotta think about the things you're doing to your American audience when you talk about these things... because you've just reminded me that I don't have a Browning Hi Power in my gun collection and there's a great emptiness in my heart.
Are you also make a Video about the new warlord Italiens?
Wow, excellent speed painting !!!
I like both figures and I can see the difference in the paint colors for the beret and the pack. I think it is a good idea to use both to show a difference in color variation in clothing. Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks, looks ace. You used an 50/50 mix of Strong Tone and Medium in an earlier video. Did you try it with this? Or did the Earthshade give better result?
In this case I've stuck to Agrax mostly because it's quicker. Easier to apply and without the fuss of having to mix anything - even if I do have a bottle of half and half Strong Tone and Medium already!
Ah ok. Well I mixed up a bottle too after seeing your video. Will have to try and see which effect I like te best. Thanks!
Thank you Sonic, looking forward to get some commandos and paints them up.
Excellent choice! They're a great army to get started with, too.
I'd love to see you paint a Battlemech, just to get your take on painting stompy robots
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I've noticed that you've been very prolific recently. Another really useful tutorial, thanks.
I now *have* to buy a box of the new Warlord Commandos, damn you! :)
Oh dear, oh no... ;D
I'd love to see WW2 French. But pay very close attention to the accurate color palette. I have not found a single TH-cam channel that paints them accurately. Usually they paint the coats green or just brown. And the leathers are not red enough. Also the dump sacks under the back pack were almost yellow.
Well, when Wargames Atlantic fiiinally release their plastic kits...
Oh for sure! The best color guide I've found for ww2 french uniforms is 'Officers and Soldiers of the French Army in 1940' published by Histoire & Collections. I use it constantly its excellent and covers all the army branches.
@@beaushaver3779 I see this one mentioned a lot in colour discussions about French uniforms, and it boggles me every time since the cover of that book shows men in what look to me like green coats. 😅
Well everyone perceives color differently. The correct color for French uniforms Is Green Brown of the Model Color line of paints.
Love it. I must admit that I've never attempted to use the decals on Bolt Action troops. Too small and fiddly for me. But I do like the look of them.
It's a bit fiddly, but you do find a knack to it. I tend to find the easiest way to do it is to have a sheet of kitchen towel laid out with all my decals on it quietly soaking on a wee bit of water that doesn't spread everywhere. Keeps things damp until I'm ready to get to each of them in turn!