Thanks Peter and Ralph.
The instructions say the gas mask canisters should be the same grey as the uniforms, but I mixed a darker shade and washed them with black.
The mess tins are supposed to be black but they were actually bare metal or field grey painted, so I mixed a light grey and washed them with black.
The bread bags are also supposed to be black, but I painted them in the light beige supplied.
The canteens are brown as per the instructions, but I did the cups with the pencil.
The rolled ponchos have this spurious camouflage made of light brown and beige over grey, so I did that in the absence of any other options
I did as I was told for the bayonets, entrenching tools and cartridge pouches- black, with brown handles for the entrenching tools….
And I enhanced the spades with my trusty pencil.
I was a good boy with the officer’s equipment too
It must be fairly obvious that I had to succumb to some brush surgery in the end.
I was only using the smaller of the two brushes and it was gradually getting mankier and mankier. It got to the state when it was only any good for the camouflage splodges on the ponchos and helmet covers.
So I gave it a haircut (Sorry about the focus)
And that enabled me to do the thinner straps etc.
I knew I would have to do it , I just had to time it right and get everything else done with it in its full hairiness first.
thanks for looking
Neil