Just a little work today. Looks like all it takes to offset the light shades of the ballast is some static grass. Not that I really need the ballast, since I used spackling for most of the bases. Anyway, I think the basing color scheme is set.

I'm going to get away from my normal painting style, mostly because one model at a time and 1-2 hours per infantryman just won't cut it. Besides, I tend to use very subdued naturalistic shading that looks really nice from 8 inches away, but very murky at 4 feet. I've won a few painting contests, but regularly score in the middle range for painting scores at tourneys. So, for both fast painting and high contrast/attention grabbing effect, here's what I'm going with:














I suppose the situation could still be classified as dire, but I'm feeling pretty optimistic about the coming weekend. Don't we have some sort of holiday coming up, too? Labor Day or Memorial Day or some such?