discussion Desert colour ?

[Alan 45]

Hi folks I'm doing a desert dio and was wondering what colours to use for the sand , I do have revells yellow sand colour but it seems its a bit to yellow.

Also what colour could I use for some detail to the sand.

Colours I have at this time are

Yellow sand

Afrika brown

Earth brown

Thanks in advance for any info

 

[Guest]

Hi Alan!

I'm doing now a desert base for my SAS Jeep.

Explain what I do...

The first coat is yellow desert XF-59 and after I do a modulation of color with Buff XF-57 and flat flesh XF-15 (all colors are tamiya/are absolutly mat ones dry)

The stone I just do a little and very thin coat of cinzento Royal Navy XF-80, it's not a grey color....very nice one for the stones.

The next step is an oil wash with white sipirit with raw umber (for exemple), very thinner or dilute.

And the last step is dry brush with very light oil colors (for me the dry brush is better with oils than acrylics) like buff or flat flesh again. And a last one with white is very fine too.

And for the stones a very light grey with a blue "touch".

Think the secret is very fine coats, and leave the light color to the end....and only paint just few on the top of the stones or the elevate parts of the dio.

Hope you understand my terrific info...

Cheers

Polux

PS: this is a pic of the my desert one. It's not finished yet

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[Alan 45]

Thanks polux you've been a great help

 

[Guest]

Thanks Alan!!

Remember to post pics.... and the most important is try new things, don't be afraid

 

[Guest]

A 50- 50 mix of Tamiya xf59 dessert sand and xf57 buff should get you rather close, but i use bird sand for my dios, for example the after gazala dio idid a while back. then paint with a mix of the above paints and you will be close as damn. then add white and grey xf 20 to the base colour alternatly to highlight and shadow.

scott