8th Army Indian Infantry
'ere we go again
Sorry for not reporting for quite a while…but the “real life” got in my way during the first weeks of 2019.
So, what was I up to in a tabletop way? I was at least able to paint the first whole squad of my brave Sikhs. When painting the first batch of models I always really get to grips with some of the flaws of my initial plan. Then, what was it in this case…?
1.”The Wash”
I use AP Soft Tone for Inking / Washing my models and this time I had to realize…even soft was way too hard. The contrast was too strong on the vanilla / sand / yellow(ish) uniform. Problem was solved by thinning down the Soft Tone with water…aproximatley 50/50 (water / wash)…that really did the job and gave me the result I was looking for. Toning down the Iraqi Sand without having a contrast that stark.
2. “The Highlight”
I then soon felt like even though Iraqi Sand after all is a very light color on its own it still needs some brighter highlights to give the models the final touch. To get the result just mixed in plain white to get to a 30 / 70 mix (30% white / 70% Iraqi Sand).
3. “The Skin”
Even though I felt okay with my test model I soon came to the opinion that too light is not the way to go, so I simply didn’t light up the skin tone as much as I did before…
Now, that is it…and here you go with my No. 1 Sqaud of Sikh soldiers for my 8th Army project…C&C very welcome.
Huzzah!
They look great! I do think the skin looks a bit purplish, though that may just be the light.
Thank you Peter, well the basic color I used for the skintone is very much on the red side of a brown. And using a daylight lamp with a cold blueish LED this might leave the impression of purple, you are right. In natural daylight that isn’t the case so much as it rather looks light brown / red.
@shoop77 – epic work on this project so far. We saw lots of people choose Sikh / Punjab options for their Commonwealth Desert forces at the recent Bolt Action Boot Camp – but of course none of them were really painted yet. These are really coming out amazing, I wish my minis ever looked this “clean.”
Thank you very much @oriskany:-).