Shields and skin tones

Pictorial resources are not much help for these minis because most of the shields are moulded with a weird "badly desiccated wood grain" that you most often see on fantasy shields. So I've decided to treat that as "hair left on" hide and give them a cattlehide look to match the chariots. So far just the light shade.

The other color I've worked on today, and only on one stick so far, is skin tone. I have no source that suggests the people of Ilios were less light-skinned than their Mycenaean rivals, so it's all of one shade.

Oh! And looking at that picture reminds me I also slapped ivory tone down on boars-tusk helmets. I have doubts about that but I felt like I had to.