Friday 1 June 2012

15mm ACU UCP and MARPAT


My attempt to paint two identical 15mm Peter Pig Modern US soldiers in UCP (universal camouflage pattern) and woodland MARPAT.


I know that this is not authentic 1/100 representation of these two digital camo patterns, but if you paint realistically scaled camouflage on 15mm models, they will blend with wargame terrain. I also decided not to paint camouflage on their bulletproof waists. Army guy wear green woodland waist, but I want my other ACU squad to wear waist of same colour as his uniform..

8 comments:

  1. These look really good. In 15mm you never look to get a camo scheme that looks good close up and on the tabletop. You can almost never get anything that looks good close up. Hi-res pictures always make people question their painting skills.

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  2. Very nicely painted, Sir.

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  3. Great job on both...I prefer the BDUs! That's because it's the uniform I wore, always thought the new one only worked on Starship corridors lol! It is the universal camouflage that sticks out everywhere!

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    1. BDU is great! I have Propper BDU M81 Wodland Pants, Coat and patrol Cap even if I am not an army guy :)
      I also have BDU pants of following camouflage patterns: M81 Woodland, 6 Color Desert Camo, Asian Tigerstripe jungle camo (looks cool).
      Patrol caps I have ACU, BDU Multicam, DBU M81 Woodland, BDU Trigerstripe, BDU 6 Color Desert Camo.

      M81 Woodland is good camouflage. Truly classic and associate with US soldier. New digital woodland Marat works even beter in woodland enviroment.

      ACU UCP is different story. They tried to make universal camoflage, but its dont work in all types of terrain. I dont know why they mass produced it for whole army and now they are working on replacements :) They already changed camo of US Afghanistan garrison from ACU to Multicam.

      I agree ACU looks great both in life or on tabbletop, but it dont woks in woodland area at all.

      BUT it works amazingly in urban areas and works good in defert (not as god as desert Marpat, but still good.), and it also good in some rocky areas. So its not that bad camouflage. It just dont works in all types of terrain. But there are no camo pattern suitable for every terrain.

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    2. if you believe that....come play paint ball! I live here next to Fort Hood and I work there, I'm just saying that the GIs don't like it. Also photos can be misleading, they stick out here and
      can be seen for miles.

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  4. That woodland MARPAT is the bee's knees!

    It migh just be the camera, but I've noticed that green of yours always looks too bright and 'limey' for my tastes, though whenever I do a basic green, it always comes out looking too flat. Who knows?

    All the same, lovely paint jobs, and especially the camouflage; it still looks pretty even at that zoom!

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    1. Thanx.

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      It migh just be the camera, but I've noticed that green of yours always looks too bright and 'limey' for my tastes, though whenever I do a basic green, it always comes out looking too flat. Who knows?
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      In real life the green is not that limey. I just can make good colour correction with my small camera, my room lighting and my photoshop skills. But its still a bit limey with dark shadows and light highlights. The reason for doing this is that I want to easily spot all details on mini from tabbletop heights. Thats the reason I make very dark shadows.

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  5. I have found that MTP / Multicam is possibly the best all rounder for day time. You just miss it. It's better in urban than anything else but still not perfect. I have never found anything that works well at dusk tho.

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