How To Paint Plastic Military Models

I will show you how to basically paint a small plastic military model for use with tabletop games. Hope you will see a variety of plastic military models going up into scale of this size and level of detail is the model you would use for tabletop games. As you can see, this is very small so you can lay a lot of them onto the table.

Am starting with these pieces of clay base and because use of such small scale and because this plastic is relatively matte finish, I wouldn't bother indicating in it. There is some very fine detail along there and that would be lost if you give a layer of indigo. It's better to leave that layer of indigo and give a couple of layers of varnish so that when it is handled to play these tabletop war games, the paint doesn't come off.

So, I am just giving it a brown color which is a snake but leather colour, so similar to the desert camouflage. What you will find if you don't undercover it while paint is still quite wet, it will stick to the plastic very well. But if you push the paint around little bit on the plastic, as the paint dries, it becomes more tacky and you can see that there are little holes in the paint foams and that's because of lack of indigo but if you keep pushing the paint around on the plastic surface until the paint gets to its level of tackiness and where it sticks, so I am going to hold this piece in the paint.

The thing is paint will not adhere to the plastic because the paint is worn to drown a bit. It is painted a lightly browner color so I am going to bring out the detail of this. I am going to take darker brown color and mix it with fabric color.

So, it will almost bring consistency of the browning. You see me picking out details where you want to sublime a brown nothing. Let's wash liquid into the areas and that picks out the areas of details so.

I wouldn't actually paint the detail. And that's how I would paint the small detail of military models. .