Produktbeschreibung
The Colours Of War book is 88 full-colour pages. It covers everything you need to get your army ready for gaming. There is a section covering painting techniques, as well as the theory of highlighting and shading. The content isn’t restricted to any one particular period, but it does have a late-war focus. Each of the four major nations has its own section, consisting of painting guides, colour and marking references and camouflage schemes.
Last year Pete and John-Paul decided it was time to completely overhaul our paint system. Their brief was clear: they didn’t just want a series of painting guides. They wanted a result-oriented painting system, designed around taking the end result - well-painted miniatures - and working backwards.
And this time, rather than choosing the closest colours for each task from a paint manufacturer’s existing selection, we would design our own range with colours mixed to our exact specifications.
The core of the range is the 10-colour Quartermaster’s Set. By default, basic ‘starter’ paint sets always seem to include black, white and the three primaries: red, blue and yellow. It just seems to be a given that you need to have those. But when you actually paint World War II armies, you quickly learn that you almost never need a bright primary colour.
On the other hand, there are some colours, such as basic khaki, which are so common that we always had to include them in several of our paint sets. That meant that anyone who bought numerous paint sets ended up with more bottles of khaki than they would ever need.
We took a completely different approach this time. The Quartermaster’s Set is now more of a true World War II starter set. It contains all the standard colours that every army seems to need. Then each of the major nations has its own colour set, with the correct colours for their unique equipment. With just the Quartermaster’s Set and the appropriate nation-specific set, you will have all the colours you need to paint your army. |
