Testing a variety of color schemes for my new Arab army. The goal is to have a variety of colors scattered through out the army. All too often my figures are too similar - unity in an army is an important quality to have, but I seem to take it to extremes at times. So far I have found little information/inspiration for painting an Arab WAB army. Osprey has a number of tiles for the time period - I purchased Armies of the Caliphates and Saracen Faris. Both book depicted the solders of the period in a variety of primary (if pastel) colors with soft brown leather foot ware and gear. Darrel Hindley creates a very different view of the Arab world with a controlled pallet of white and blue - check the bottom of his Figure Painter blog page.
Of the 6 figures - I’m most satisfied with the three in the front rank. The primary color pattern is much cleaner than the three brown figures in the back row. I really like the red - but a whole army in red robes would look too much like some chaos death cult. On the next set of figures, I need to revisit the brown & see if I can create a softer result.
Paint List
All figures primed white and washed with a brown ink.
Spears: Vermin Brown (GW)
Bows: Tan Yellow (V)
Green: Orkhide Shade (GW), Snot Green (GW), 50/50 Snot Green/Ivory (V)
Red: Burnt Cad. Red (V), Flat Red (V), Beige Red (V)
White: Astronomican Grey (GW), white
Blue: Ultramarine Blue (GW), 50/50 Ultramarine Blue/Ivory
Flesh: Medium Flesh (V), Gryphonne Sepia (GW) (Borrowed this wash hint from Five Armies)
Brown: assorted combinations of Calthan Brown (GW), Iyanden Darksun (GW), Bubonic Brown (GW), Ivory, Sepia and Devlan Mud (GW)
