Hmm, you didnt get many repliues to this.
OK first point is most drop troops (airborne/paratroop) wear camoflage rather than dress like bigbird, you may want to ponder this, a falcon admittedly is not bright yellow but its camoflage is for entire a differnet purpose than that of groun troops.
My elysians are done with grey/blue jump suits but cammo armour plates, another though you may want to consider (piccis are in the LO gallery)
But if you desperately want to paint them loke falcons, fistly you need to understand that falcon is a family of birds, they have different colour schemes, calssically they will have lighter undersides too
Mostly you are talking broens, you could happily do the coveralls a lighter brown from the armour plates, but it aint gonna look much like a falcon cos the figure and detail is not feathered, so you are left with the prospect of freehanding feather effecs, even the best painters would shy away from this for 2 reasons:
Quantity - this is gonna require a huge amount of detailed freehand which coupled with the number of minis in an IG army means you are gonna be painting well into the second decade of this centuary
Effect - however well you paint, the effect is unlikely to look right, the minis are not falcons ,they lack the large expanse of feathers on a falcons wing which is the dominant area of pattern, so it aint gonna look like a falcon however you paint it
OK first point is most drop troops (airborne/paratroop) wear camoflage rather than dress like bigbird, you may want to ponder this, a falcon admittedly is not bright yellow but its camoflage is for entire a differnet purpose than that of groun troops.
My elysians are done with grey/blue jump suits but cammo armour plates, another though you may want to consider (piccis are in the LO gallery)
But if you desperately want to paint them loke falcons, fistly you need to understand that falcon is a family of birds, they have different colour schemes, calssically they will have lighter undersides too
Mostly you are talking broens, you could happily do the coveralls a lighter brown from the armour plates, but it aint gonna look much like a falcon cos the figure and detail is not feathered, so you are left with the prospect of freehanding feather effecs, even the best painters would shy away from this for 2 reasons:
Quantity - this is gonna require a huge amount of detailed freehand which coupled with the number of minis in an IG army means you are gonna be painting well into the second decade of this centuary
Effect - however well you paint, the effect is unlikely to look right, the minis are not falcons ,they lack the large expanse of feathers on a falcons wing which is the dominant area of pattern, so it aint gonna look like a falcon however you paint it
