Bought some Franco Prussian figs on Ebay. They were going cheap so I stuck in a bid on impulse.
I decided to use these to test the dip method. I block painted a single coat then added the dip. Actually thats not quite true. For the face I wanted to see how the dip would look over two layers. I put on a GW flesh base and then highlighted with elf flesh creating a high contrast. The red also required a bit of touching up. I have yet to find a red that works in a single coat over black.
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4 comments:
does it create a shine though, like a gloss varnish?
-aaron
They'd work for the American Civil War as well (not the one's with the scarf over their face though)... yours have an almost identical uniform to Duryee's Zouaves - a unit I'm painting even as we speak...
Zouves are cool!
yeah it shines. You have to add another coat of matt to finish.
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