Airfix British 8th Army

I just had a few of these guys lying around, and decided to use them as practice models for a new technique: washing with varnish. Before, I used a water wash with a little black paint to create shadows, but then I had the idea to use varnish for my base. This works better because the varnish is thicker, and helps the paint to pool in crevices, creating better shadows.
However, I overdid the black in this wash, and the shadows are a bit to dark and heavy. Also, I forgot to prime this figures, and ended up putting no less than five coats of paint on this figures, obscuring some of the details.
This was something of a botched job, but it served my purpose: I now know to use varnish in the place of water for my shadow wash, and I am very pleased with the results.
Despite the chronological order of these posts, I painted these guys before my Orion and Italeri Russians, and so the Russians benefited from my experience with these poor 8th Army guys.