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Wednesday, 25 November 2020

Painting Kilts quickly & easily



I recently added a unit of Gordon Highlanders to my Anglo-allied forces for the Hundred Days Campaign and wanted a quick and easy way of doing the kilts.

The kilt is blocked in with VMC Prussian Blue, given a wash of AP Strong Tone and the VMC Prussian Blue reapplied.


Next a grid of VMC Luftwaffe Green is painted on.


The square where the Luftwaffe Green lines cross is painted VMC Flat Green


The kilt is then washed in AP Green Tone


The Flat Green is then picked out again


Finally the green lines have a fine line of VMC Gold Brown overlaid on them.  


The finished figure ready for basing.



This blog article really is here as an aide memoir for when I try to remember how I did it again in years to come.

15 comments:

  1. Very effective way to paint kilts

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  2. Straight forward and effective, very useful.

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  3. Nice to see the step by step guide, they have turned out really well.
    Cheers
    Stu

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  4. Very nice method, Scrivs. I find the hardest part is the over stripe - in this case the yellow came out excellently.

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    1. Thanks Dean, I used a 50:50 mix of VMC Golden Brown & VMC Thinners, I found it flowed well and gave more control.

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  5. A very handy method - thanks for the tutorial, Paul 👍

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  6. Really helpful! Thanks a lot!
    Best Iain

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