Beja paint job suggestions

[James Morris]

My sister kindly got me some Perry Beja for my birthday at the weekend to start off my Sudan project... I've admired Frank's superb work on the T&T game at Tactica, but am thinking I may have less time available to paint my Fuzzy Wuzzies.  I'm considering some kind of quick technique, a possibility is spraying with Army Painter Leather Brown as a combined basecoat/ undercoat and then applying successive black washes.  Has anyone tried this or anything similar?

Cheers

James

[Phil Robinson]

When I wanted some very dark skinned Africans ( I think the Beja come into this category) quickly for a demo game I painted them Vallejo Burnt Umber then washed them black and then drybrushed them with a lightened burnt umber, simple but was effective.

[thejammedgatling]

hi James

I must admit that I'm still trying different ways of quickly doing my Nile Arabs and Beja. Here are some of mine from a while back:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=6734.0

I got to 200 and gave up still with another 200 to go. However, first attempts of using the dip method have turned out better than expected. I'd go for a mid-dark brown then try to dip..then highlight with the same brown again (slightly watered down) then finished with neat. I'd also do a test rig with several different starting colours and see how the dip affects them. I found the dips quite thick and some wiping away was needed, so you can vary the effects you get by how much or little you take off. Invest in cotton buds!

Good luck!

[James Morris]

That's good to know, thank you.  jammedgatling, if I can get my Beja anywhere as nice as yours, I'll be happy.  I tend to paint on Quickshade rather than dip it so not had too many problems with pooling so far...

Off to experiment!  (when I've finished painting my new kitchen extension in 1:1 scale, so I may be some time...)