After several months, I finally have some WWII stuff from Forged in Battle on my painting desk. The first batch is formed by several Deutsches Afrikakorps (DAK) anti-tank guns: Pak 40 (7,5cm), Pak 38 (5cm), Pak 36 (3,7cm) and IG18 (7,5cm).
To paint the guns I’ve used the Dunkelgelb set from Ammo of Mig Jimenez, but only three jars: dark base, base and highlight. I’ve tried to follow the color modulation, but not strictly. I wanted to simulate the color base (German grey), since the dark yellow was applied over it. To achieve this I used the sponge technique and dark grey. I think this chipping effect should be weak, and therefore I didn’t paint the tipical light line to get deep.
The base it’s painted with green brown 879, and two drybrushes, first with desert yellow 977 and then iraqi sand 819. I put some small rocks to break the monotony of the big base.
About crews, I’ve followed the PaintingWar WWII army magazine, including the following colors in the palette: green brown 879, desert yellow 977, brown violet 887 and chocolate brown 872. I have to paint four crews per gun.
Very, very nice! Just one small remark; the red-white ‘sticks’ are normally the color of the gun itself as they were the cleaning rods. Artillery guns like the LeFH18, had measuring rods in red-white. PAKs had either wooden cleaning rods or dunkelgelb/panzergrau cleaning rods.
Hi Davy,
Thank you very much for your comment!. I will repaint that parts! 🙂
As im just starting out with DAK , ill be following all your colours etc as they look amazing