Painting US Infantry Part 1

Hi there, here is the first part showing how I paint my miniatures. I am by no means a great or even good painter. As I've mentioned before my main aim is to get miniatures on the game table as quick as possible with minimum effort. I enjoy playing the games first and foremost and whilst I do enjoy the painting/building side of it a lot, painting lots of minis can be a thankless task at times.

Just a word on colouring and livery. I know a lot of people take the historical accuracy side of gaming very seriously. I don't, at all (as I've said before). It doesn't interest me in the slightest. As long as it looks like what I'm going for I'm happy.

Ok, here we go. I start off by priming the figures, usually in black but it really depends what figures I'm painting. For my ECW New model army I primed them all in red to save me painting the jackets and I'm doing my confederates in grey primer for the same reason. After the primer coat depending on the figures and if I can be arsed I sometimes dry brush them in white to pick out the features as it makes it easier to see sometimes. In this case I didn't. The first colour coat is skin so for these guys, hands and face. You'll notice I'm not overly bothered about neatness at this stage. The flesh colour here is Games Workshop Elf flesh. It's a bit bright but we can dull it down later.

After that it's jackets and helmets. I'm using Humbrol olive colour for this. All my paints are acrylics by the way.

That's it for part 1. In part 2 we'll get all the base colours done. I paint skin, jackets, backpacks/belts, trousers, guns and boots and finally metal in that order. Ta ta for now.