Continuing with my (not so much) "speed painting" of USARF, I have completed the next step. Which, as I have predicted in the previous article, has taken much longer than the first step. For my USARF I have decided to go with black on weapons, pistol holsters, straps, boots and chest vests.
The difficulty of this step was making sure everything is painted neatly and the black isn't all over the place. So I ended up spending lots of time with my super small detail brush on the straps which were not always easy to reach. Weapons and boots were the easiest, most of the surface was done with a larger brush and then detail brush again on the surface near hands and other parts of the mini. Chest vests were fifty-fifty, some miniatures has them mostly accessible while with few others they had arms and guns going across them.
I am not sure yet what will be the next step because so far I have not decided on the end result, as in I am not sure about the final colour theme. Mostly likely I will do metallic silver to finish the guns and then flesh, so the minis look playable. I can then do the bases to complete the "table top" look. I do want to add grey and brown to the mix as well. I did try to add a different shade of green of armor plates but not sure if it works. Might need to complete one miniatures to decide.