JACKET & TROUSERS The great thing about Akhenaton is that is he doesn’t  require too many colours to paint, and once the black is  done, well that is him about done too. The down side of  that is the black is the most important colour on him after  the flesh, and needs to be done in some style. The folds  and creases of Akhenaton’s clothing are well defined so I  followed the sculpting and if you do the same you won’t  go far wrong. One last bit of black was the hilt of his  Khopesh of Osiris (big sword).  BLACK 1. AP-WP1101 - Matt Black mixed with AP-WP1125 - Skeleton Bone  2. + AP-WP1125 - Skeleton Bone 3. + more AP-WP1125 - Skeleton Bone 4. and lastly more AP-WP1125 - Skeleton Bone

OR SHOULD THAT HAVE BEEN PURPLE? As you may have spotted, I got that wrong. His shirt is in  fact pale purple silk. Now that presented a couple of  issues. Firstly I didn’t want to paint it again as waste the  effort I had made already, and secondly there is no pale  purple in the range. So to solve these two problems in one  hit I used a wash of AP-WP1128 - Alien Purple over the  white, and voilà problems solved. It did take a while trying  out the wash strength, and diluting a bit with more water  to get the right degree of transparency.   I think it worked OK here because it was a small area, I  wouldn’t recommend this technique for large areas, apart  from when painting fur! 

WHITE FIRST Really a very small amount on this model, but it is still  worth while doing these little bits first. Not only so that  you can correct them, before going on the rest of the  model, but also I find it helps not to loads of fiddly bits to  do at the end of a paint job. Painted in with colours as  below, and then tidied up with black AP-WP1101 - Matt  Black. WHITE 1. AP-WP1102 - Matt White  mixed with AP-WP1117 - Ash Grey  2. + more AP-WP1102 - Matt White 3. + more AP-WP1102 - Matt White 4. pure AP-WP1102 - Matt White

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