Painting Navy Seals by Craig W.

For my project I decided I wanted a group of Elite soldiers so I could play lots of scenario games with a small amount of troops. My favourite Sangin games are those with only a few troops and a heavy narrative component. I received the figures from Colin’s personal stash-thanks Colin.

Now I searched multiple websites and decided that I would use a mix of Multicam and MARPAT as there seems to be an awful lot of images showing Seals wearing both. It also meant I could use some of the figures as Delta or Rangers for other scenarios.

Here are a couple of images of the uniforms: 

As you can see they are a bit detailed for a 28mm figure!

And yes my first few test attempts were a good rendition of this but it left the figure way too busy with no definition…so in the paint stripper jar they went. (here they are before paint removal!)

So I finally got the hang of abstracting the patterns so they look good on a 28mm figure – less accurate to the real uniform but give the impression of it well enough. So here they are all nice and finished:

Here is an inspirational shot on the table:

So how did I paint them?
Well I tried a variety of different paints until I found something that worked.
For Multicam I used the following paints:

Here is my test square:

Here is my test figure:

For MARPAT I used the following paints:

Here is my test area:

Here is my test figure:

So there goes! Obviously I haven't given you a step by step guide - but hopefully it makes sense and you can follow it. Colour choice is a personal thing so my advice to you is to just have a go and trust your eye. Any questions just let me know :)