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I've got a lot of Beja that I need to paint. In order to have any chance of doing this within the next few years I needed to find a way in which I can skimp on my usual painting method and start churning them out.

I pretty much decided to go for a base coat, a wash and two highlights, one of which is applied very sparingly; this is a vast improvement in terms of speed when compared to my usual multi layering method! I think that in total there were not more than about four hours spent painting these up.

You can read about my desperation to get them painted, the method employed as well as seeing many more pics on my Just Add Water blog here:

http://justaddwater-bedford.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/speed-painted-african-flesh-with-beja.html

Here's a few tasters:







Cheers,
Darrell.

Base coat, a highlight, a wash and magic dip shade work really well on organic and cloth, IMO.

I would never multi-layer and so on a wargame army, because it would take forever.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Base coat, a highlight, a wash and magic dip shade work really well on organic and cloth, IMO.

Not a dip man- never liked the stuff. Leaves too much of a stain on a miniature IMHO.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
I would never multi-layer and so on a wargame army, because it would take forever.

Well, I've followed that method on quite a few armies.... it's just that the Beja have to be done in really large numbers. I'l lbe painting the Brits and Egyptians as normal.

Cheers,
Darrell.

Burnt umber as a base coat. Highlight one Burnt sienna. Highlight two mix of Burnt Sienna and Yellow ochre. For masses of guys it's easiest to drybrush in my experience. Final step would be a wash of your choice.