Guild Ball Hunter's Guild by Lawnor

This leaves picking out all the remaining clothing and armour surfaces in natural, earthen colours.  In other words time to work with more shades of brown than I knew were possible.  I first went with a rich dark brown for the more dominant cloth surfaces, typically trousers.  My base colour was VMC Panzer Aces 302 Dark Rust.  This was highlighted with VMC 70.983 Flat Earth, mainly by drubrushing where I could safely get away with it.  lastly the whole thing was washed with GW Nuln Oil.  There were a few simple areas on a few of models that wanted to be a different shade of leather to everything else.  They got a quick coat of P3 brown ink over their pre-shading and no more attention than this.

I had at least 2 more types of cloth to pick out in different earthen shades.  I didn’t want everything to be mid tone browns so I picked out a less vibrant yellow, P3 Mouldy Ochre, and base coated the remaining large sections of cloth, and some hems.  I also painted the wraps on peoples hand P3 Trollblood Highlight at the same time as both colours would get a Gw Agrax Earthshade wash.  This tints the yellow and makes it more earthen, and makes the wraps look dirty and old.  To get the wash to sit right on Zarola’s top I ended up applying a second wash and holding her upside down until it dried.

The yellow was drybrush highlighted with its base colour.  I didn’t want it getting any brighter than that.  The wraps were drybrush highlighted with P3 Menoth White base.  I think of this recipe as “Walking Dead White Shirt”.  On the right surface it looks like it used to be white but you’ve not taken it off or had a shower for many months.

That’s 4 more shades of brown applied, along with the flesh tones, bear fur, leather, fur clothing, and different hair colours.  There’s still the brown of the wood, the brown of the leather straps, the brown of some dark bronze, bone (That’s a whitish brown?) the red-brown of the earth, and the red-brown of some rocks to come later.  I hope I’ve enough of a range of browns encroaching in to other colours that it doesn’t all blur together.