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  • September 15, 2018 at 8:19 pm #146739
    Darin
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    I’m starting on my marines and I am having trouble finding a color to use as a base green fatigues color. Any ideas? Brand and color would be helpful. Thanks in advance.

    September 16, 2018 at 1:21 am #146752
    Triggertime
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    I had this dilemma too. I haven’t started painting yet but I’ve decided on Vallejo Russian uniform. I find some other green colors are too cartoon like. Russian uniform is more matt and earthy.

    September 16, 2018 at 11:29 am #146755
    Stephen Casement
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    I know how you feel, no matter how many photos you look at its hard to get single out a shade, in the end i decided to go lighter and slightly brighter so they didn’t look bland on the battlefield. I decided on Army Green from the army painter range for the base, then around a month later i found a youtube tutorial published by the wargamer (https://youtu.be/6KrRSG35l7U) who shows a very similar colour selection.
    The warlord website shows a great camo tutorial for helmets and uniform items too (http://www.warlordgames.com/painting-usmc-camo-tutorial/).
    Typical USMC Uniform shades (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=usmc+htt+uniform&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjd6I7pqL_dAhVxMewKHZthAdoQ_AUIDigB&biw=1366&bih=662).

    Heres some of my finished pics

    Marine

    Medic

    Hope you find this helpful!

    Stephen

    September 17, 2018 at 7:57 am #146774
    Darin
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    Thanks for the ideas. I was looking at the russian uniform green, that’s what vallejo recommends. The army painter green might be just a little “green”. Have anyone seen the army painter “fatigue green” I haven’t been able to get a bottle where I live. Was wondering if that might be closer.

    September 18, 2018 at 2:11 pm #146912
    Jeff Ingersoll
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    I bought the army painter Combat Fatigues thinking it would be closer to US army fatigues since I just started painting the new US infantry. It turned out to be a bit too light. I had started with Vallejo US dark green which makes the fatigues look like brand new ones with no fading. I settled for using the dark green as a base color, then mixing it with the combat fatigues for my high light. Not marines I know, just thought it might be of some help.

    September 21, 2018 at 6:59 pm #147201
    Slyde Klewlis
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    I am using this method.

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