I noticed some people are doing a green/brown IG style on their allies. While others are opting for then more arctic style sceme on the cards and boxes.

my question is this: Is the arctic theme always going to be the "official" theme? I try to paint my units as close to the official imagery as possible but I don't like the bland all white ranger squads combined with the recon units that are more subdued and camo'd, and prefer to keep all my units looking similar.

Do you guys have any input or maybe even official picturs from comics or other fluff I can use to help me decide?

The Revised Core Set is already in a non-snow location (at least the posters that come with it have no snow). I would expect we'll see other non-snow locations as well, as apparently Vk is located in all sorts of crazy extreme locations.

I'm sure if you got the Dust comic books or source book you could get some more pictures for various colour schemes, or just doing an google image search for "dust comic" brings up a lot of pictures that would probably be helpful.

felkor said:

Only Google Image search "dust comics" if you have a bottle of Brainbleach and a Brillo pad on hand. You will need it.

To the OP: if you have any alt. color schemes in mind for the infantry, go for it! The official plain white color scheme is pretty bland.

The best thing about the German army was they used a similar smock for all of their camo schemes. Units also sometimes had smocks, but normal field uniform pants.

I've been painting my armor 2 squads wearing smocks in a German camo pattern that was used by all the branches of the military that had field troops. It is a base light brown with green and reddish brown markings.

There are a lot of sources on German camo patterns that would fit perfectly with the Dust figures. They used somewhere close to 20 different camo patterns during WW2, so you should be able to find one you like.

I have painted my Axis forces in the German Tri-Color camo from the Italian area of the conflict, Dark Brown, Dark Green, and German Yellow.

I cant stand the arctic color scheme, and I think it narrows the look of any units you happen to add later from expansions that are NOT set in the snow!

I've also been trying to find Authentic unit decals from both US and German forces from the Italian campain. If anyone has any ideas post it and let me know!

Enjoy blow'in stuff up!

It's alternative history - to me that gives me the freedom to paint them any way I wish. I started painting in something sort of kind of realistic, but find myself slowly drifting away as I want to do something more interesting and have figures that "pop" a bit more.

It's alternate history, and more time could justify even more camo schemes, but there are a lot of nice ones that paint easily, look good on miniatures, and are historical. Many of the historical German camo schemes look really good without a lot of effort.

Even an alternate history carries facts from the real history, so using what's available is fully justified.

Even on historical miniatures, the only reason to stay with historical schemes is personal preference. Unless you're painting them for a historical competition, there's never a reason to stop someone from painting their property the way they want.

Once you buy a miniature, it's yours to paint however you want. Other people may not like your choices, but you are the only person that has to be happy with your paint schemes.

Major Headcase said:

Major Headcase said:

I found nice patches on the Company B site, but I do not recall exact address. I have 101st airborne, Ranger, Para, and German insignia and patches, plus helmet patches, so forth and rank. They look pretty cool.

I appreciate the replies guys

I think im just gonna wait until I pick up the revised core set. I noticed in the downloadable PDF rules some of the unit cards seemed to have non arctic camo? are the pictures big enough to use as a reference?

resistfate said:

They should work fine as reference images.

Another reference source for cool, non historical, but still relatively realistic "military" schemes is to Google up some images of Imperial Gaurd from that "other" mini wargame that takes place some 38,000 years in the future ( wink wink ).

I've seen some amazing paint jobs on those armies ( mine coincidentialy, is painted in WW2 Allied colors!! ) And pictures are in abundance on the inter-webs!

Happy painting!!!

Major Headcase said:

You might be surprised at how many of those schemes are actually taken from real historical sources.

I have a friend who re-paints his IG army every few years, alternating between different camo schemes from our world. Why? Because they look good, and work, without having to dream up something new while remaining cohesive across the entire army.