I'm not going to write a lot here. I just got back from the one of the local (fifty miles away) comic and RPG/Games Workshop store. While browsing through the Games Workshop material I was attracted to the paint display, always on the lookout for new paints and colors to use, when I spotted some colors I had not noticed before. The colors I came away with are two washes Brown and Chestnut. There were several others but I did not, yet, see the need for green or red wash or a replacement for the black I have. If you have yet to try washing your figures you should as it will bring out much detail.

When I finish painting the uniform or costume of a figure I give it a wash by brushing the figure with a watered down coat of wash. What this does is to find the cracks and crevases and hairline detail of a figure and basically outline it bringing out the detail. It can also give a figure the look of having marched through an area of brown dusty soil if I use brown wash or if I prefer the Sudanese troops might get a yellowish brown wash to make them look like they have been marching through the Sudanese desert which is a yellowish sand. You see where I'm going with this.

If you haven't tried this yet it's pretty easy to make a simple wash without buying anything by thinning down an acrylic color with water, generally 40-60 (acrylic to water) works well. The lighter the color is the better as it's a whole lot easier to ad color than take it away. Just be careful and not get carried away, too much color will make your figures look somewhat comical and you really don't want that.

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