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I was just wondering what a good shade of brown would be for dipping, I want the end result to be kinda like bestial brown. It can be lighter/darker but still in the same general colour.
Thanks for any advice!
-skavenfreak

Usually people use the Antique Walnut stain from MinWax.

Its a dark brown.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

Whoops , I was asking what a good basecoat would be, as in paint. Thanks for your input though.

I would probably go for a basecoat of Iyanden Darksun, really like those new foundation paints. That should give you a good medium brown color, I believe. But if you´re having doubts, do a test model or three , in different colors.

Always better to see it for yourself.

thanks for the help guys!

let us see how it turns out

i dipped some guard with camo cloaks. the cloaks were snakebite leather and goblin green, worked nice. i can post some pics if you like?

Yeah, pics would be awesome. I tried some of the antique walnut and wasnt that impressed. I will be trying the "tudor" (or thats what I think it is) later this week.

If you are going to dip, lighter = better. Snakebite leather should work fine.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

sorry I took so long, heres a few pics, not the greatest quality as I'm hopeless with a camera...

Cool, Looks like these guys should be fighting off some blood pact!(theyre tanith right?) Thanks for the pics BTW. what minwax did you use?

Tanith-inspired yeah. looking at those pics has shown me loadsa faults I missed, will have to go back to them.

I used Wilkos Walnut and dipped the whole model (as apposed to just painting it on). I'm still new to this dipping malarky but its certainly useful.

When I painted a model for a competition I was recently in, I used high-def. digital pictures to spot check and pinpoint any flaws. It worked out rather well.