Modeller's ethics and the Ansar

[FierceKitty]

   I should like some opinions from other gamers on a tricky point:
  As you all know, a few basic details make all the difference between an acceptable games-standard figure (all I can hope to manage at my age and in the current state of my eyes) and a Jackson Pollock job. One pretty automatic feature is of course the belt that soldiers almost everywhere have in one form or another.
  But the Ansar in the Mahdist armies are always illustrated with a white sash over a white tunic. Do I go the Aristotelian route and select a plausible lie in preference to an implausible truth, do I rigorously paint what they really wore and settle for an anaemic appearance, or do I compromise and paint a faint beige or similar belt?
   Your voices, masters!

[GordonY]

I always assumed that the actual belt was hidden under the sash thingy, that made painting 150 of the little buggers a breeze.

[Steve J]

I'd go for a slightly different white/ light beige for a bit of artistic license.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Ink wash around the belt area then highlight belt and area of tunic around to give a shade effect?

[Ben Waterhouse]

Aristotle, though he was a b****r for the bottle...

[Techno]

Hobbes was fond of his dram.

[mollinary]

And Rene Descartes was a ?

Mollinary

[nikharwood]

I'd go with mad lemmey and / or Steve J here...

[robert]

white and very thin ink wash in dirty brown - which will define the belt area whilst finishing the figures 'as they were'.  Why paint something that was not actually there?

At our age FK it is hard enough seeing the figures at 30" never mind the colour of a belt

[FierceKitty]

True. I shall not worry too much about it anyway; the coloured patches give plenty of animation.

[Sandinista]

Try a few different styles, then put them together on a table and stand 1 metre away and see what looks best

[Jim Ando]

Hi

You can get away with murder if you slap a wash on.

Jim

[Leon]

You can get away with murder if you slap a wash on.

[Hertsblue]

Yep, Vallejo Brown Shade, well watered down should make the creases stand out.

[GordonY]

Over O.J. ??