Re: [OT]-ish : Figure painting question

Try a chestnut ink, and not that Games Workshop stuff. Go to an art
store
and get--I believe--Windsor's Chestnut (for a reddish shade) or sepia
(for
purer brown). Dilute with Windex. Windex contains a good surfactant for
getting into the crevices, and the blue tint will not--and I mean *will
not*--tint the wash. Try a series dilution, and work from dilute to
stronger. If the dilute solution doesn't work, try a stronger one, until
you
get the result. I usually dry brush or tough up the surrounding paint
job
afterwords. But for the sand this works really well for me.

> I've used a dirty brown wash on brown and tan
> figures to good effect. I've used a black wash
> on grey-black figures to good effect. But now,
> having a base colour of sand/desert yellow
> (with green and brown and wee black bits), I
> have no bleedin' idea what to use as a wash.
> I'm afraid brown or black will blech-ify (yes I just
> invented the word) the yellow/sand based camo