
I got a PM from Hellfoot giving a link for a page on doing Chequers. Thanks for that Mate

http://coolminiornot.com/article/aid/807/page/1
The idea is great, but then I thought, "bugger, can´t do that!" as I base with black. Then I came up with a variation


So here goes. Thin coat of black Acrylic base. Has to be well thin as too thick and the paint flakes off in big lumps.

Paint the first colour. Here I´ve used emerald green with a bit of brown, about 66%green-33%middle brown. Basically fill the alternate squares all over the figure.

Paint the second colour. This time 66% canary yellow - 33% middle brown.

Noe comes the fun bit. You have to go over every square again using a lighter tone of the first colour, but basically painting more of the edge of each square each time (working from the middle out). This takes at least 3 goes, moving up to near pure emerald green or canary yellow. This seems (and I found this out by accident) to give the material look

Paint the underneath of the horsecoat (ie; where it´s flapped back) and finito!! The very last bits of edging I do when the riders on as I´ve found that damage can occur when attaching the riders and that just makes me want to tear my hair out when I´ve attempted to get it near perfect and then have to redo bits. (and obviously the saddle and reins etc have to be painted as well)
