Wargaming | Modelling
Modelling: Making and Painting Sandbags

Sandbags are useful for entrenchments and other fortifications.

Homemade Sandbags

Making Sandbags

My sandbags are made from milliput. Nothing fancy there. Just roll out some and cut short lengths then push together into a wall or some such.

Painting Sandbags

I wanted to repaint my Sandbags using Vallejo so I searched on the internet for advice. I found several alternatives ...

From Great Escape Miniatures: Constructing Gun Emplacements

  1. Black Undercoat

  2. Heavy all-over drybrush of Vallejo Burnt Umber

  3. Drybrush Vallejo Flat Earth

  4. Heavy Drybrush Vallejo Brown Sand

  5. Drybrush Vallejo Iraqi Sand

Or Brush Strokes: 10 mm WWII Vehicles

  • Paint mid brown like Games Workshop Snakebite leather (Vallejo 70.913 Yellow Ochre, 70.912 Tan Yellow, or 70.804 Beige Red)

  • Heavy drybrush Games Workshop Bleached Bone (Vallejo 70.928 Light Flesh, 70.918 Ivory, or 70.820 Offwhite)

Or Rules_of_Engagement Forum Index » Soviet » Soviet 155mm Gun Position

  • Paint Vallejo 141 English Uniform

  • Drybrush Vallejo 141 English Uniform+ White.

Or FoWiki: Painting Midwar Ostfront Summer Germans

  • Paint Vallejo Green Ochre 119

But I decided to do something different. I've opted for a scheme similar to that I use for Flocking but with a different base coat.

  • Paint Vallejo 141 English Uniform

  • Heavy dry brush Dark Sand coloured paint, for example any of:
    • Ceramcoat Maple Sugar Tan (this is Mark Case's preferred shade)
    • Vallejo 70847 Dark Sand (this is what I use because I couldn't find Ceramcoat in the UK)
    • Cote D'arms 522 Pale Sand (despite the "Pale" in the title it is quite similar to the Vallejo)
    • Americana DA191 Camel
  • Dry brush Pale Sand coloured paint, for example any of:
    • Howard Hues Geo-Hex Desert (I use this because Mark Case suggested it and I only found the alternatives later)
    • Vallejo 70837 Pale Sand