Raiding the Dusty Wastes

With completing two other projects not terribly long ago I figured that this needed some love again; well, that and I already got the urge to build the Gripping Beast figures from the sprue and toss on some sand/gravel mix I had. I pushed the Arab spearmen aside for a moment and went back to the lovely lady on the plinth (its a visual thing Lloyd).

So what I went about first was a zenithal priming over black. Seeing the success of the Darkoath Brown contrast from GW  I figured I might want to try the same on the base. I had misgivings on doing the fleshtone but I relented thinking that there wasn’t much skin exposed and it could be redone with minimal effort. So, on with the drybrush layers.

• VGA Barbarian Flesh (72.771)
• VMA Medium Flesh (78.860)
• VMA Pale Sand (70.837)

After getting all that down I washed it with GW Reikland Fleshshade to ease it all back to something reasonable with highlights. Thinking that this really worked I did the same thing with the base but left out the final wash. It’ll work later as well in tying the palette together.

If I were a lazier painter I could leave the drybrushed Medium Flesh/Pale Sand as a NMM gold but I think the color could be developed more.

It didn’t look half bad and I decided that this approach to drybrushing will be my fleshtone approach when not refining my airbrush skills. This soft transition  was brought forth by a venture into a FLBSS (Friendly Local Beauty Supply Store) for a small soft nylon makeup brush. There were a few sizes but I picked up one about 8mm wide for about what GW’s M scenery brushes go for; its the same material as far as I see.

As you can probably tell I finally figured out the damn issue with the lighting. It took a little trial and error but throwing a bedsheet over myself and the mini in the bathroom looks like it will work. I hope to be able to get more good shots like this before I move again as this has finally made me happy with the results possible from my limited knowledge of how to play around with the camera on my phone and being without my own personal setup.