I am in the process of painting a 28mm Arab army. It will be predominantly white. What shade of wash would you esteemed gentlemen suggest.
I am thinking sepia or a well watered down brown ink?
Cheers
Orcs
I'd go with a fairly thin grey wash. Then pick out the highlights again.
I would go brown, but I suppose it depends on what colour you intend the garments to end up as. As I recall, from the film, Lawrence was the only one wearing white.
I would start in a pale grey, then highlight (nearly all of the white area) in white, then a thin brown wash. The grey gives shadows, the brown accentuates texture.
Start it all in medium grey (I use Coat d'Arms 231), highlight in light grey (211), then wash with black (CdA wash is nice and thin) and then top highlight with bright white. That's if you want actual bleached white, if you want dusty linen/off-white, start with HT dun (221), highlight in buff (228) then wash in brown or black to taste and top highlight in linen (233). Move the highlights up a tone and finish with white to make it more off-white
I've used a sandy coloured wash in the past, the yellow in it giving a nice effect
cheers
Ian
I used a similar approach to Zippee on my 1917 Arabs I used a variety of base colours to make them look less 'uniform' plus most got one coloured piece of clothing
(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t197/paulreynolds999/Sinai%201917%20project/IMG_1611_zps393l9vc0.jpg)
I was going to suggest using slightly different coloured washes on an slightly off-white base for some variety.
MickS
Thanks for the ideas chaps I will give them a go