The skin on this bust was painted using just 4 colours. It was something I found on Pinterest which was a guide on mixing flesh tones, mainly for oils, but I wondered if I could apply the same technique with my acrylic paints. This model was a practice piece anyway so it didn't really matter if my experiment went horribly wrong! The guide does not have any revolutionary new ways of doing things, this is a very commonly used technique.  Basically you take the following paints: Cadmium Red, Yellow Ochre, Ultramarine Blue, Titanium White.  As I do not have these colours in acrylics I then thought what is the closest colours I do have? So I picked Mephiston Red, Averland Sunset and Ceremite White (all GW) and Blue from the Vallejo air range.  The guide recommends the following:  Think in terms of light and shadow Use a limited palette  Mix the main colours first - light flesh and dark flesh Avoid adding white to your shadows (this I found ...

I had this one in mind for a smaller Armies on Parade display for a Corvus Cabal Warcry band. I have a large woods behind where I live and there are a lot of crows about and that's where the idea originated, I wanted a Corvus Cabal war band who hunted in the forests of Ghyran, but were heading out to the Eightpoints to join Archaon's ranks. My diorama would be their origin story, of sorts. My other half already had the Awakened Wyldwood box that came with 3 trees, so the idea kinda of grew from there.  I knew I didn't want it to be huge, asides from my goblin cave I made last year, it's been a while since I've made scenery/diorama. It was a regular thing when I was a kid, I even made a cathedral out of graph paper one time, only to reproduce the whole monastery for an art class end of year project, that I also used to help get me into art college. So I'm a bit rusty and it's always a good idea to go easy when you're trying to get back into something...