Success with homemade washes

Hi All,

I feel like the homemade washes were a success. I'll let you be the judge.

Reference gray primed horses

With washes applied

So as you can see from left to right Black, Burnt Umber, Raw Umber, and Raw Sienna washes were applied. I think the darker two did well on the gray while the lighter two are harder to tell. It is a little more obvious to the naked eye. Obviously the darker washes darken things up a bit. The washes look very dark when poured into the palette, but when you move them with the brush they have the opacity of skim milk.

So let me know what you think.

In other news I decided on a lark to look up gaming conventions, since it is a goal to go to one in the next year or so. I found two in Mesa, AZ and one in Tuscon, AZ coming up. Maricopa Con looks like exactly what I am looking for. Of course it is happening right now and I'm busy this weekend. Copper Con seems less about gaming and more about Sci-Fi, comics and cosplay. Not really my thing, at least not hardcore. Rincon in October and TusCon in November although neither has much info right now.

I also learned of the passing of Michael Ansara, known to many of us as Kang the Klingon leader from Star Trek.

The New York Times did a piece on him here. Rest in peace Kang. leS tam qeng (I wanted to insert Klingon script here but blogger didn't support it.) I used the Bing translator to translate it here.

In upcoming posts I'll have some shots of my Orcs from 20 years ago. It's about 37 figures, that by the look of them, I considered finished at the time. Not totally horrifying, but not as awesome as I remember.