Anvil Industry 10th Anniversary! DPM on the Jungle Commissar Variant [How I Paint Things]

September 2021 marks ten years of Anvil Industry trading! As part of their celebrations, the Digital Forge pack this month features a ton of characters where their sculptors have had a chance to go wild and have some fun. Some are tweaks on already existing resin kits available, and some are unique to the Digital Forge as STLs. One of the STLs available this month (and eventually through the website!) is this variant on the pin-up jungle commissar, which you can see here: www.anvilindustry.co.uk/jungl...
The complete post for the 10th Anniversary Celebration pack can be seen here, and is a total steal for $9USD! / everything-you-55572434
00:00 - Intro
01:17 - Quick Mention of Digital Tweaking
01:57 - The Painting
18:00 - The Finished Product
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PAINTS USED:
PRIMER:
Citadel Grey Seer Spray
CITADEL:
Cadian Fleshtone (Layer)
Agrax Earthshade (Shade)
Morghast Bone (Base)
Death World Green (Base)
Catachan Flesh (Base)
Corvus Black (Base) or Vallejo German Grey
Dryad Bark (Base)
Iron Hands Steel (Base)
Waaagh Flesh (Base)
Mechanicus Standard Grey (Base)
Ushabti Bone (Layer)
Agrax Earthshade (Shade)
Reikland Fleshshade (Shade)
Lahmian Medium (Technical)
Kislev Flesh (Layer)
Gorthor Brown (Layer)
Stormhost Silver (Layer)
Baneblade Brown (Layer)
Stormvermin Fur (Layer)
VALLEJO:
Green Grey
German Camo Pale Brown
Pastel Green
SPRAY VARNISHES:
Vallejo Matt Varnish

[@euansmith3699]

Those DPM Trousers look great. The way you've painted his face and exposed skin makes him look properly Australian; like Michael Preston in Mad Max 2.

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Now that's high praise!

[@tabletopskirmishgames]

The whole model looked fantastic but those DPM trousers were brilliant! Such a great video, thanks!

[@joshconfer209]

Am I the only getting predator vibes from this character. Such a fun model.

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

The resin version with the double-handed chainsword certainly does, too. 😂

[@cdgilroy]

Now that's a chest worthy of the late, great Ricardo Montalbán!

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Well, damn... That's me looking for my TOS DVD collection so I can spend the evening on 'Space Seed'! 😂

[@ARC505]

What Arnie did after Predator 😂 fantastic model as always

[@johnkelley9877]

Really great work Sonic! I learned a lot from this in painting DPM so I will be watching this more than once. I very much enjoy your channel and you have taught me a lot of techniques on painting. Thanks for sharing this.

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Glad to hear it! Camo seems to be this strange mystifying force in the realm of painters.

[@RotGolem]

Totally stealing that camo scheme (along the one from a couple weeks ago)

[@stevepickering5978]

Lovely ABS really good job Looks gooooood

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you , Troy .

[@thepiratepenguin4465]

Wow, that is impressive. Great job

[@stevesomo6952]

finally a decent [painter doing tutorials , bravo

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

This model appears to be a redesign of the jungle Commissar available from their online store

[@MrCrystalwarrior1]

Something most people don't know, is that after every 150 yards of produced material, the camo pattern repeats itself, so you'll find the same pattern on different parts of a uniform, but you'd need to spend a LONG time (I speak from painful experience of having to prove this to a serving soldier ((Sniper, of all people)) many years ago) studying pictures of both jacket and trousers made from DPM cloth to see where the pattern actually repeats. I found the same pattern repeated inverted on the pocket of a pair of new trousers and on a faded jacket blouse front on the same soldier in a photo. NOT a good idea for the faint hearted or short of patience, but I had to prove my point at the time, and was damned if I'd give up before being proved right :-D I also showed my local IPMS club figure painters, but believe me, it's easier just to go with the flow when painting camo, as at that scale, it just doesn't matter, and you'd need amazing eyesight to paint repeating patterns so small :-D I know, I tried once, and once was more than enough for me. I LOVE the camo pattern you did on this mini, and will have a go at it myself, once I've finished painting the "lizard" pattern on the 1950's/60's French Foreign legionaires that someone has asked me to paint for them. PLEASE do more videos like this, as they are truly inspiring, and I love learning new techniques :-)

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Go figure! That's something I quite honestly didn't know. I suppose it makes perfect sense, given the scales at which DPM cloth would be manufactured, and then once you start throwing the cut and sewing of different material to create the clothing itself, you're scarcely expected to be able to see those repetitions. ...and yet!

[@MrCrystalwarrior1]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio I only found out about it repeating the pattern every 150 yards when I worked at a specialist manufacturer's that produced different camo cloth for the NATO Alliance forces. After that, I started studying photo's of uniforms to see if I could spot the different ways the pattern was cut and stitched into the uniform, and later moved to work at a model shop as a figure painter. That's where the sniper found me, poring over a photo of a soldier wearing the faded blouse and newly made trousers I mentioned earlier. I had a lot better eyesight in those days, and a lot of time on my hands working on a Tuesday (When, for some reason, the shop was pretty much empty all day long) and weekends, and so got access to all the model magazines for free, so "studied" as much as I could, and then went on to paint 1/35 & 1/48 scale military figures for customers, then went slightly insane and started doing the same on Games Workshop Imperial Guard Cadians and Catachans (Apparently Catachan is pronounced Cat-a-kan, according to Games Workshop at the time - 1990's), but now I just do like you did in your video, and went with how I feel, and life/painting has been so much easier since, and I get my figures painted so much quicker, too :-D

[@adriant1654]

Looks like Sonic's alter ego? 😁That Patreon has some nice unique models this month!

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

I wish! I think I've gotta lay off the beer and pretzels before I get to this! XD

[@yagsipcc287]

Lookd great bud :-) So many great STL makers these days :-) Each month every creator is learning and improving their own stuff as well expert mini makers putting out STLs.

[@colinb9884]

Great job on the DPM pattern

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Cheers! It looks a little darker on camera than it does in reality - always the scourge of trying to get the right angle for the lighting in here.

[@gruppenfuhrer45]

All I can say is WOW!!!!

[@robisonwells1]

Nice! Has a lot of Predator vibes.

[@phuryian]

wow mate, awesome result!

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Thanks a lot!

[@DarkWatch-Ian]

I really enjoy your tutorials, they always give me inspiration and techniques to try. You make it easy to follow and do. Like the camo technique, will be great for star wars legion rebels etc. Thank you, I will keep watching. Your cheerful persona shines through.

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Really glad to hear that! I also wouldn't even have considered the Rebels, that's a really good idea.

[@alessiodecarolis]

VERY intriguing miniature, the camo is awesome, my only complaint is about the pose, with the rifle at easy and pointing it could've be more spectacular

[@Thunderplunk]

Very nice! It may just be the lighting, but I feel like the camo ended up looking more like Vietnam-era tigerstripe than DPM - though honestly I think the effect might be even better for that!

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Could be the lighting - it's a fraction better looking in reality, though if I were to highlight some of the green and beige colours again, that'd likely change up the look quite a bit and look a little more accurate.

[@stephendavinson4441]

Sunday and Monday off.time to catch up on all these videos I have had no time to watch lately 🙂

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Hope you enjoy!

[@gervisprantl1711]

This guy needs a HUGE Knife

[@cnrrmtzdno]

nice and cool

[@13Robzilla]

Got this one, couldn't click fast enough.

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Well, that's a bit of good news. Maybe KZbin is behaving again!

[@13Robzilla]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Let's hope. Maybe she heard us? Either way the idea of using different brushes to make a pattern has become a crazy rabbit hole I will willfully climb/descend later tonight.

[@BaerNDice]

Very nice! Good Job Troy and good video! A question: Can you make a video the future with some focus on thinning the paints on your pallet while painting? I'm very interested how and how much you thin your paints.

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Thinning paints is something I could spend a whole video on - I'll have to cover it properly in full at some point soon.

[@thiagosouza9445]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Please do!

[@thiagosouza9445]

I never can get it right. My paints feel too thick or they just run everywhere , I can't say if my brushtroke is wrong, if there's too much water on the brush, or if my paints suck... Your coverage here is something like a dream for me.

[@kevh6948]

Your work rate is very impressive. Are you working full time as well?

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Not at the moment. It does give me rather a lot more time for toy soldiers!

[@Myhayv]

That camo is awesome! Just out of curiosity, at what layer height is he printed?

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

He's 30 microns! Pretty much as fine as I could get a clear result from.

[@Myhayv]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Cheers! I mostly print stuff at 10 and it takes forever. Maybe I'll try 30 to see how it goes. He looks really crisp.

[@aaronkenny2783]

What kind of printer do you use

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

This guy came off of an Elegoo Mars 2 Pro, but these days I tend to print most of my miniatures on the Mars 3.

[@aaronkenny2783]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio ok thanks for the info mate

[@JaxTheReaper21]

Not the kind of pin-up I was expecting. False advertisement.

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Life has many kinds of pin-up, Ed boy!