Carl, brilliant, Marc's suggestion was spot-on. Looking forward to seeing this on Thurs.

Cheers Ken

Nice work Carl.

What figure is this for? IIRC you were working on PiLiPiLi's highlander at some point? Is it for this figure? Or do I have the wrong person?

Rudi

Very instructive WIP Carl and an impressive result!

I will try the oils trick if I ever go near any tartan again!

Thanks for sharing

Mark

Yes, you have to. Simplistically, the grid pattern is formed by dark warp threads mixed with the 'base' colour weft threads, and vice versa, and then where dark warp and weft threads intersect you get the unmixed dark colour.

It's for the same reason you shouldn't use neat white for the lines - this should be reserved for a small dot or square wherever the 'white' lines cross each other. Blending the base colour with the white to around the halfway point between them (this won't always be a 1:1 mix of the two paints) should give something like the right colour.

If you want to take it a step further, where the 'white' stripes cross the dark stripes this should be a different colour. Visually from a distance you often can't pick out variations in narrower stripes as they cross others but generally where one colour crosses another they mix, so each stripe is a bit of a patchwork quilt in terms of colour. More examples here and here.

How ancient? MacKenzie Ancient for example is green, blue, black, white and red.

Einion