Para Jeeps

[Traffic]

Today was all about cracking through some of the unfinished stash.  This is stuff I have started but hadn't quite finished off.  And to be honest these still aren't completely finished as I am in two minds about basing the jeeps.  I base them because things like trailers and towed guns need a base so the tow needs to match the height.  I am not ready to go all urban but then a rural base looks odd down utrechtseweg.

[Moggy]

Those are amazing

[Anatoli]

Terrific !!

The painting of uniforms is also really nice !!

[Alex M]

Inspiring work ! What paints did you use for the camo uniforms ? Cheers Alex

[Traffic]

Inspiring work ! What paints did you use for the camo uniforms ? Cheers Alex

My Denison Smock/Brit Para mix is as follows:

1:1 VJ Green Ochre and Khaki
VJ Flat Brown painted in Zig Zags
VJ 893 Dark Green to split the zig zags and blotches
VJ 893 for the cuffs
VJ Khaki for the Webbing
VJ English Uniform for the trousers, with a bit of added Khaki for a highlight (if I bother)
VJ Black Grey for the boots and metal items
VJ Beige Brown for wood and also the base coat for the flesh

[martin goddard]

Good pieces Si.
Very nice to see trailers used too.
Come on down and play some PBI with the chaps?


martin

[Colonel Kilgore]

Lovely stuff, Si - thanks for sharing pictures plus paint codes - always useful!

Simon

[Leman (Andy)]

Really like those as I have been gifted some paras for Arnhem. Apparently I might also be getting some Germans as well. As we have now moved out of lockdown in a significant way I am hoping this will continue so that my mate can get over here to visit Arnhem.

[Alex M]

Many thanks for the info on the paints you used , just about to do some British camo myself so that should come in really  useful . Cheers Alex

[Smiley Miley 66]

The British Para Jacket or the Denison Smock as most of us know it. These colours are approximate and up for interpretation. But the main colour is a Middlestone or Orchre. With a bright to middle green and a mid to dark Brown patches. Remember the colour patches were applied as a screen print so the patches or blobs will only have a pattern if it's in a long continuous strip ? Which on a jacket wouldn't happen. So unlike the Germans where and how you apply these patch colours are quite Radom in this scale.
The rest of a Paratroopers uniform is as you would paint any other British infantrymen of WW2.
Miles

[John Watson]

Apparently the earliest Denison smocks were so experimental and new that the cammo was painted on each individual one by hand. As Miles says this was to become a printed pattern once mass production had been set up.
John