This project has been pending for too long, time to continue. Following the airbrush stage, I choose the following colors to complete the paint job (plus some metallics later on), all from the Golden SoFlat line.
First, I used a piece of ripped off blister foam to give the minis the mottled effect from my reference photo. For that I used Cadmium Primrose.
With a brush, I then put Titanium White dots randomly over the models, mostly into the primrose dots.
For most of the other areas, I added Dioxazine Violet Deep. For example the wood is violet plus Raw Umber, highlighted with Titan Violet Pale, instead of a grey I would normally use for aged wood. The red on the shields started with violet plus Pyrrorole Red, then highlighted up to pure red.
For the leathers, I used Raw Umber, Red Oxide, Pale Yellow and Titan Violet Pale. I had all the colors on my wet palette, then did a random mix for each leather section, starting dark, then adding lines to represent wear and tear in lighter colors.
I recentely became a big fan of these limited palette jobs, it somehow creates a more intense and specific mood for me.
Areas like the wood and also the skin will be treated with oil washes, or perhaps rather filters, to further tweak the colors, pushing the wood more into a brown direction, for example. For the skin I am thinking of a red, or perhaps reddish brown, to tone down the mottled effect and blend more into the skin, as well as for more shadows. Not exactly sure yet.