Here’s a nice side-by-side to show you how my interpretation of Wappel’s shaded basecoat goes:
The top photo is much to light, on purpose. It’s the same recipe as for this other Skaveny article I did a while back.
- Skin is GW Zamesi Desert, mixed and highlighted up with GW Dheneb Stone
- Base is Steel Legion Drab, mixed and highlighted up with GW Dheneb Stone
- Chains are just Runefang Steel.
Then I let him sit on my desk for a while, because…well, just because the timing didn’t work out well.
In the second photo:
- The base is GW Seraphim Sepia, pulled from the edges to the center, and deeper into the cracks of the cork layers. Then GW Drakenhof Nightshade in a thin layer underneath the model (as a shadow) and within the deepest cracks of the cork.
- The chain I did a lazy wash of the Drakenhof and Nuln and some drybrushing with Runefang, but not in the order and I want to go back in with the Runefang.
- The wraps are Sepia’d, then drybrushed up with Dheneb Stone
- The loincloth is PP Cygnus Yellow, Sepia’d. I painted over the Steel Legion Drab I had here, as I want my Star Players to have the yellow compared to the pink on the regular team.
The skin is more complicated. I started with a layer of Sepia, wiping away the excess with a finger from the highest points on the model. Then I mixed GW Bloodletter (glaze) and Drakenhof 2:1 to make a semi-purple wash. I painted this in thin layers along the bottom of each “semi circle” in his muscles, and in the areas of shadow in his armpits and on his left side where the arm and his side are close to each other. I did this twice, and then finished with a thin layer of just the Drakenhof in the very deepest recesses. I did a quick drybrush with Dheneb Stone over the tips of the fur.
This is still just a work-in-progress post because I got pulled away by a baby, but he’s pretty close!