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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: carlos13th on March 04, 2014, 10:24:51 PM
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I am doing a few Ashigaru who are wearing straw capes, does anyone have any recommendations on how to do decent looking straw capes? What colours to use and what techniques. I imagine it's brown as a base highlighting or dry brushing up to a lighter more yellow colour but I could be very wrong.
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I am doing a few Ashigaru who are wearing straw capes, does anyone have any recommendations on how to do decent looking straw capes? What colours to use and what techniques. I imagine it's brown as a base highlighting or dry brushing up to a lighter more yellow colour but I could be very wrong.
Depending on what it was, straw can rapidly weather to a greyish colour (rather like wood does - wood left outside soon goes grey rather than brown), so that might be an option. If these are Japanese, I guess rice straw would be the predominant material. Is it worth googling "rice straw thatching" or something similar to see if it brings up pictures that might help?
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I have done a google and I know what I want to achieve just not sure how to produce the right look. Looking for this kind of thing.
Either of the guys with straw capes
(http://www.perry-miniatures.com/oscthumb.php?src=/images/sam/sam%2038.jpg&w=540&h=210.6&f=jpg&q=95&hash=b637bd5b4ca4592200c2f17b6c02a679)
(http://artstor.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/ayale_peabodyig_10313281667.gif)
(http://www.dixon-minis.com/images/25-162.jpg)
(http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/68/5a/dc/685adc838455a549f58bebec1853eab2.jpg)
I had no idea straw could go a grey ish colour though. Thats intresting and may help add some variety. Once I get the normal colour done of coruse.