Whilst
painting those frustrating Skeleton Horse Archers, I discovered
something interesting. It turns out that Balor Brown (aka mustard
yellow) covers really well over the Zandri Dust undercoat. This gives
me ideas, the curse of the hobbyist. We get ideas and its all
downhill from there.
Mustard
yellow is something of an obsession of mine. I used to be able to
paint a fantastic mustard yellow but it required Tau Sept Ochre, one
of the old base paints. More problematically, it required one of the
design flaws of the old base
paints: the way they absorbed inks like a sponge. I painted one great
test model back in the day with the last drops in the pot and the
very next week the new paint system came in and I couldn't replicate
it.
That test model was a Lamenters Space Marine and working
out how to do it again has been something of a low key obsession ever
since. I'm sure I have a spare Marine lying around somewhere to test
this method on.
And
then we'll see what new methods I need to test elsewhere to finish
that model.
For all my moaning, I'm only half serious. Part of the
joy of this hobby is trying out new methods and everything I paint
will see use some day. Quite besides which, I've really been hitting
my stride again this last week. My tinkering with odds and ends has
now resulted in me getting some Tomb Kings cavalry, some Night Goblin
infantry and a Wood Elves character finished (pics to follow when I
have time and good light to take them) and doing a little 40k sounds
good. As monotonous as Space Marines can be, one sounds like a nice
change of pace: artificial colours, smooth surfaces, a little
freehand for the chapter symbol, all very different from what I've
been painting the last week or so.
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