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Post by tifast on Mar 29, 2020 11:14:54 GMT
Hello,
Do you have a recipe for painting desert bases? (I use Vallejo).
That would be most helpful.
thank you
Tifast
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Post by nangwaya on Mar 29, 2020 12:27:57 GMT
Hi;
Here is a pic of one of my stands with a desert like base:
I like the effect.
I use a modelling paste from this company: link and add craft paint to it, but I am sure you can just add any grit to some paint to get a sandy texture. I like the simplicity of using this modelling paste. Also, by altering the amount of paste, I can alter the texture in the final basing.
Since I tend to not vary my painting style very much and coupled with the fairly generic figures I find in Biblical era armies, I like to alter the shade of paint I use, to help me distinguish different factions on the table quickly.
For example, here is another stand for another one of my armies, and you can see the colour difference of the "sand"
Hope this helps!
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Post by vexillia on Mar 29, 2020 12:38:21 GMT
Example using tufts & fine clump foliage (no static grass):
Some others:
Hope these help.
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Post by Baldie on Mar 29, 2020 13:48:10 GMT
I have two ways. I do most of em with sand and a little rokcy scatter, paint them with B&Q tester pot coloure - Clay as the base, highlight with cream then final go over with white as a final highlight. I also paint the edges black, I started doing this years ago on all my figures and even do it on the desert bases. I did my FOW 8th army and most of my other desert stuff like this. I then picked up some arab types from Britcon and needed to match a few of the bases, they were a mix of bare filler sort of like rocky slabs and sand. I actually found that just puttig sand on and then drybrishing with iraqui sand gices a great effect. Sounds off but try it. Both types I use little bits of clump foliage and dead grass tufts to give some colour. Not to everyone's taste but I like em. 8th Army  Arabs, the ones on the left are what I did to try and match the rest of the army which is based like the ones on the right.  Antigonus on command litter, great Xyston figures but you cant use em in DBA   |
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Post by nangwaya on Mar 29, 2020 14:14:32 GMT
Nice terrain effects Baldie!
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Post by timurilank on Mar 29, 2020 14:58:06 GMT
I have two ways. Antigonus on command litter, great Xyston figures but you cant use em in DBA
“can’t use em in DBA” –
Baldie, Hold on, Queen Olympias having a bad hair day?
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Post by timurilank on Mar 29, 2020 16:07:49 GMT
Looking at photos of various desert landscapes you will find the ground colour is quite varied. The final choice is yours, but choose a colour that nicely compliments the army as more effort was made to paint the army than the ground.
Use scrap pieces and apply different ground colour and finish by adding tufts or grass.
Select the one which looks well for your army.
I still have my test pieces, some have cominations, paint and inks. Other examples I covered electrostatic grass with paint and dry brushed - nice texture. Experiment.
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Post by Baldie on Mar 29, 2020 16:20:30 GMT
Deserts do indeed come in many colours reds, greens even a bit of sand. Hills, mountains, valleys and plains of drifting grass.
Not an expert but presume alot of desert warfare took place closer to the less desert areas cos they were the bits everyone wanted.
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Post by tifast on Mar 29, 2020 21:04:37 GMT
thank you gentlemen for all the advice. This is for my Gaugamela project. I would like to reproduce the figures and scenery from the movie Alexander.
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