Painting US Infantry Part 2

So we've got our figures primed and we've also painted the base colours for skin, jackets and helmets. Next step is to paint on all the rest of the base colours. For these guys, dark brown for wood and boots, light green for the back pack and belts and tan for the socks (can't remember what those things are called as I type this).

Here are two of my infantry guys

After that, simply dry brush any areas I want to highlight. In this case I dry brushed the jackets and helmets in the same paint I used for the back packs. Finally I apply a wash over the entire figure using Citadel's Agrax Eartshade which is labelled as a shade. I used to use Army Painter Quickshade dip but the Agrax Earthshade is quicker to use and less messy. I'll post up some pictures of my ECW army which were pretty much all done using the Army Painter dip.

I think the wash dirties them up, gives you some shadowing and dulls the base colours. I'm really happy with the finish, good enough for the game table. I've tried painting eyes and teeth but I don't think it's worth the effort, once they're on the table you don't see them.

Here are some finished figures

Ready for war! Using this process I can usually get about 7-10 guys painted in an evening. Just got the basing to do so I'll post up some more pictures of them with bases although I'm rubbish at doing bases. If anyone's got and tips I'm all ears.