My very easy method just keeps painting Japanese Infantry for Bolt Action

Put this down as a speed painting tutorial, with room to come back later if you want and add detail or tidy things up. I’m debating and all over was and drybrush, but I’m not sure this scheme needs it just yet.

I got the idea from my older post here.

When painting historical minis, I often go for speed, as shown previously with my Soviets. Find a reference picture that’ll make your life a lot easier! In this case I went with the images where the banding and leg wraps (I don’t know the proper name) were essentially the same colour as the uniform.

I should also warn, I’ve used pretty exclusively Citadel’s Contrast paints, so things can be pricey if you don’t already own the colours I’m using.

Anywho… we start with a white prime, and I then put Darkoath Flesh over the skin.

Then Goregrunta Fur goes over the boots, pouches, belt and rifles.

I then did two coats of Ratling Grime on the metal of the rifles, lunge mines and katana and sheath.

Militarum Green then went on the helmets and once that was dry the entire mini gets a coat of skeleton horde. This unifies the existing colours and gives everything else a light tan suitable for the Japanese.

The lunge mind poles got a coat of Snakebite Leather and the Katana blade was painted silver after the fact, as my brain is full of cold currently. There’s a lot of nastiness going around again (I was only just ill two weeks ago), so stay safe!

Of course no awards will be awarded, but that’s not the point! The paint here is to get 60 figures ready for the table asap!

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