Abyssinian Crisis: Mehal Sefari - just some test figures

In order to approach the rendering of the skin colors found in Ethiopia, which in the original range from dark brown to reddish skin tones, I did some tests with different color and wash combinations, and after finding some schemes that worked well, I wanted to test the effect on fully painted figures.

So I painted some figures, choosing a uniform color scheme for clothing etc. so that the effect of the skin color would also be in the foreground.

In the end, I decided on 4 figures where I was most convinced by the skin color compared to the prototype photos and which I will use in this way.

For the bases I used self-sifted sand, tinted with different shades of sand and washes, self-dyed and chopped flock that I still brushed with a faded shade of green, and the grass tufts I made with my electrostatic flock master from a mixture of brownish 2mm, 4.5mm late autumn, and 8mm straw-colored grass fibers.