Citadel paints, anyone use them for WWII uniforms?

[TheModeller]

Hi, a pal of mine uses Citadel paints pretty exclusively for his Warhammer figures, I'm hugely imprressed and want to give them a go on a Dartmoor 1/48th metal figure to go with a kit I'm building, the Citadel website has a number of drab greens/browns/brown-greens listed but I was wondering if anyone had a recommendation of suitable paint matches for British service dress in WWII?

Cheers.

[DeltaJ]

Hi,

GW Graveyard Earth gives decent resemblance to Standard Battledress, & Kommando Khaki makes for good webbing. I used Citadel paints only (Just as an experiment), to paint my Valiant British Tommies & they looked really good, as well as having a good resemblance, despite GW having a very small colour range.

This are the colours I used for my Tommies:

Battledress- Graveyard Earth

Webbing- Kommando Khaki

Helmet- Catachan Green

Rifle Stock- Bestial Brown

Rifle Metal / Bayonet- Boltgun Metal (Mixed with black)

Flesh- Elf Flesh

Water Bottle / Officer's Boots- Scorched Brown

Boots- Chaos Black

Scrim / Leaves- Cammo Green

The only problem was Citadel paints being water based, & they can tend to be quite thin. Sometimes 2 coats may be required.

Hope this helps