The inspiration for this article comes from previous modelling articles from Stephen Tunmore. I read with interest his articles on painting red, yellow, and white (see WS&S 111 & 112) as they are generally considered to be the most difficult of colours to master. In this piece I will be taking the easy route: working with the colour brown.
I had a few cast resin 1/56-scale gabions from Debris of War to paint and looked at the elements involved: wickerwork (brown), sawn wood (brown), logs (brown), and earth … you guessed it, more brown. The challenge here is to portray the
