Hummel's crew journey

Three artillerymen

Without further fanfares I built the three stooges up to priming stage. With the first one I had taken a jump start just for the fun of it, he was just missing his arms. The rest were quickly done.

Greyscale men

Guys were primed black, and as soon as I could, I drybrushed them with an off-white colour (VMA 71318 Greyish Blue) as I still didn't feel like setting up the airbrushery for stupid small tasks. The effect was quite different from the zenithal airbrushing I did the last time, but I wanted to see how this worked out.

I was quite interested in seeing this in action.

Uniform green

With the Nebelwerfer team I used some heavily diluted paint on the greyscale guys, so I attempted the very same thing but expected a non-camouflage patterned triplet to be a much simpler operation. For these guys I thinned down some aptly named green (Panzer Aces set's VMC 70922 Uniform Green) and used it on the hats, coats and pants. The boots and belts I painted this time with black grey, and the kneeling guy's shoe bottoms I painted simply brown (VMC 70874 Tan Earth).

As we were playing with artillerymen, I attempted to paint narrow red edges onto the shoulder flaps and the unmodeled Waffenfarben on their collars. For their exposed flesh bits I used Flat Flesh (VMC 70955) that I then washed with Citadel's brown (Agrax Earthshade).

For something else this would've been fine, but in this case instead of being green-tinted grey they looked like they had been frolicking on freshly cut grass. My first mental excuse was that diluting the paint made the green brighter, which while true, also didn't save me. I had most likely expected to get Feldgrau when I read Uniform Green which are two very different words and shades. Not the first time, not the last time.

A grey fixing attempt

I thought I could maybe save the gun crew by using black grey. That wouldn't ruin them any further so I gave it a shot.

They didn't get worse but also not better in a useful way. Had they been in the Panzertruppe with black overalls, the black grey would've been glorious, without the green showing through. My fault for not double and triple checking the paint shades before starting :D

Anachronox

These photos here revealed my real world scheduling, I played with these dudes while the Hummel itself was drying or waiting. What happened here was that I got fed up with these people very badly. When I decided to scrap the diorama thoughts and pack the men away for good, painting little dots on the camo pattern called me like an army group of Sirens. And oh, how much I enjoyed that part, especially after getting annoyed with this odyssey.