Last Christmas, I was given a unit of partially painted FOW German Fallschirmjager. I pulled these out and finished them up, so I could add these to my collection. I just had to paint some of the equipment and add a couple of pin washes to add some depth.
I set the figures aside again, as these figures did not match my other European uniformed fallshirmjager. I decided I would do these for the Italian theater and add these to my future Mediterranean bases units. Well, I finally decided to work on these units and decided how I wanted to do my bases, to give a semi arid ground effect.
I started by spraying the bases with Krylon tan to prime them and gluing the figures down with white glue, after the paint dried. I then added Vallejo sand pumice to cover the ground the next day. That dried and I got back to the figures sometime later. I hit all the pumice with a GW sepia wash. Sometime later, I added a Vallejo light sand drybrush. and painted the borders with Vallejo dark earth (I may lighten this up, as the contrast seems a bit more than I would like.). I then added Scenic Express Summer blend flock to the bases with white glue.
The next stage was tufting time! I pulled out three colors of Gamers Grass tufts (dark green, olive and tan). I started by adding a singe tuft of each color to each base. I then went through and added a random one of those colors to each base. This helps with giving the same color pallet to the unit, while giving some variance. Once the glue dried, I hit them with dull coat.
I am happy with the overall look, so I would consider this a good test. Now it is time to repeat this on all my other Mediterranean German!
- Manteuffel
Strange-if you had asked if the three tuft colours like that would work I would have said no but the sand base and flock seems to tie it all together.
I think the key is being consistent with all the bases, to give an overall army look. As long as it is earth tones, I think it works.