Churchill WIP 2

Made a little progress tonight.  The modulation and pin wash is finished and did some weather on the tracks.

Churchill WIP

I received a lot of feedback from the Bolt Action Facebook group that I should really have a Churchill tank for my win-less British army.  I went with the Warlord Italieri kit because it included options to build just about every Churchill tank.  It's a decent kit; like most of the Italieri kits, it has a few extremely inconvenient seams and mold lines, including one that goes diagonally across the tank that I'm not going to fix.  I magnetized a petard mortar and a 75mm gun so I can swap between the two.  Went a little nuts on the stowage and tried some new things.  I made a lot of mistakes modelling the tie-down rope but I don't think it will be that noticeable when it's done.

Fallshirmjager

I brought my work-in-progress fallshirmjager into the game store to show them off to some buddies, get some obligatory positive reinforcement, and see how they look on the table.  I was surprised to see all the hard work I put into the splinter pattern camouflage evaporate when they were farther away than the distance from my eyes to my workbench.

I think there are basically two ways of painting camouflage.  The first method accentuates the shapes and colors, makes them bold, and allows you to see them on the table.  Patterns tend to be larger-than-life and darkly outlined.  The other method makes the colors more subtle, allows the shadow and highlights of the base coat to show through, and melts the colors together.  You're left with an impression of the colors and shapes without actually being able to pick them out from four feet away.  I was shooting for the latter, but I'm left wondering if I could have just left the jump smocks beige and not bother with the browns, greens, and rain-like streaks.
Will post a step-by-step soon.