Not real sure what you're going to do overall so it would be hard to say anything specific. One thing you might consider when painting your camo is your shading and highlighting. Something we've discussed you getting into more and experimenting with. Once you get your colors laid in and are ready to start working on your details consider using a darker color to outline your pockets, seams, hems and where webbing and fabrics lay over one another. After this is laid in with a liner you can trick it out a bit buy running a slightly lighter color parallel to that outlining line. This gives the appearance of the folds of the fabric that comprise the seams of a garment and add alot of depth. Once your ready for shading on your camos, rather than trying to go in and highlight and shadow each color patch use a dark brown wash to shade if the overall tone of the camo colors is warm, or a dark blue for cooler tones. If you're using acrylics mix your ratio about 6:1 and pull the excess water out of the brush by touching the brush near the ferrule to a piece of tissue. This will allow you to leave a transparent film over your camo pattern and not pool in an unwanted areas. You can darken colors by using complimentary colors to make them darker and avoid using black which will flatten out and make for a less interesting and vibrant tone. i.e. a darker brown can be made by adding cyan and a darker blue can be made by adding orange. Try to avoid using white to highlight as it will only turn your colors more pastel.
The idea with smaller figures like 1/35 is to exagerate a little to make up for diminutive size.
If you have a digital camera, I recommend priming your figures and photograph them under a source point light. This will let you see how light falls across the figure and will point out areas of light and shadow. I pull mine into photo shop and desaturate the image making it black and white. This will really give you a "light map" and help with determining light cast on a figure.
Think about your environmental setting too. I see alot of figures that you can tell that the "weathering" was an afterthought and was very generic, having no association with the enviroment the figure is portrayed in. i.e. too much dust in a jungle. Tan dirt and grime on a guy standing in red clay, dark brown dirt on a desert filled with yellow sand, etc.
Mike
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