How I painted the uniform, Ness? Well, The technique is more or less the same I use today (see "egytian afterlife" and the drawing of the the two slaaneshi space marines)
Usually I start with the drawing as a pencil sketch. I apply colour in it's darkest shade first. Let's consider the green of the uniform, for example. Where I mix green paint with brown to get a military type of green, and some dark blue to darken it (tip: stay clear of using black paint as much as you can, as it makes shadows appear flat)
then I lighten the colour up by gradually adding white or another suitable light colour to the mix. For the final highlight, I usually paint a thin line of the lightest shade along the outer edge where the "light" hits the figure.
I then do the whole process over with another colour, for example the red, the skin colour...etc. When the whole thing is finished I sometimes pick out some detail with pure white and darken some parts with diluted dark brown paint mixed with blue paint(diluted, because it doesn't cover the underlying detail)
I always work with acrylics, as you can work from dark to light with it, but you can also dilute them so they become like watercolours, and then you can work vice versa.
One thing I would recomment if anyone were to try this: use decent paper to paint on. By this I don't mean the fancy expensive stuff they sell in art shops, but paper of a decent thickness. I have used cheap "sketching pad" paper (way too thin) before and when you paint on it it will become bumpy as a sea in a storm (bumps that don't go away when it dries, and they show in the scan you make from your drawing).
If some one has any question about my technique, please ask away! Im not the kind of artist who greedily keeps his "secrets" for himself 🙂
And a note on the uniform: I studied various photos of soviet uniforms, as well as those of the SS. I mixed those elements together to get an extremely dictorial look. But I think the overall image reminds mostly of soviet uniforms (the red and green, as well as the gold stars)
