Black wash on Camo figures

Sometimes it works to blend the colors together or give a used look but only if the colors are close together in shade. colors that work with this technique is dark tan, black, dark brown, and dark green. Use this at own risk!

Hmm never thought of that Fallschirmjager, would you use the brown from vallejo or a flat brown from Testors?

For Pea dot I'd personally go with a brown wash, it blends better and looks more natural if you use a color similar to the base.

Thanks Hans, I need to try this on my next figures

I avoid black washes as well, since it's too intense for most applictaions, prefering a dark-shade of the base colors, heavily-thinned, and adding layers until I get the effect I want..  I top it off with dry-brushing lighter shades of the base for highlights.  I use dark grey washes in the collar areas and cuffs, and around caps and hats..

If the figure is going to be standing on dirt, I carry some of the dirt-color up onto its boots to tie it all together using pastels...

Oh that makes better sense, I think mine was applied to dark, but in places it came out alot better then in others,

I would avoid washes in general except for very textured surfaces such as hair and fur, or to bring our panel lines on vehicles. Black tends to be too stark except for black clothing which should be painted very dark gray (Valejo Black Gray or Floquil Grimy Black) with black or extremely dark blue shadows. (Lighten it with the addition of a light blue or mid tan to the base color) If you must use a wash, go with burnt umber or vandyke (normally two words, but the nanny bot doesn't like the second half if left standing by itself!) brown. Both are very dark but are more compatible with the greens and browns of your camo scheme.

This applies to vehicles as well as figures.