Paint Set - Forest Camo

Green in the field is never uniform

A modeler who reaches for a single green ends up with a toy. Real camouflage in wooded terrain rests on differences: young foliage is lighter and yellower, conifer needles pull toward blue, bark and mud are brown, and the dry grass between it all stays faded. The set is therefore built so that these differences can be mixed within it, rather than offering one universal green.

What you will find in the palette

Andalusian Earth is an earthy brown suited to mud and to running gear. Camouflage Green and Olivegrove Green form a pair of greens in which the first is cooler and the second pulls toward olive. Komodo Khaki stands in for faded grass and canvas, and Leather Brown covers leather equipment, straps and pouches. The last one, Ivory Tusk, is a light bone color used to brighten edges and lit surfaces.

How to work with the palette

On vehicles it works well to spray the base green, lay the second green tone and the brown over it in soft transitions, and only at the end lighten the surface with the bone color thinned into a glaze. On figures the same six are used the other way round, that is from a dark base toward light peaks of the folds. The acrylics are thinned with water, they hold well on plastic and on resin, and they tolerate pigment being stirred in if you need a more matte, dustier surface. Shake the bottle properly before spraying, as the heavier pigments tend to settle to the bottom. They also suit terrain elements: trunks, fences and crates will take the same brown as the running gear, so a scene holds together in color and in look.