Hey, finally got started on my warriors of erebor and I think i'm going to start with the flesh.

As I have never painted flesh before (besides Uruks) I was thinking of a basic technique. Perhaps basecoating in cadian fleshtone, then a coat of kislev flesh (leaving cadian fleshtone in the recesses) and finally highlighting with a mix of kislev flesh and ushabti bone. Does this sound alright? I would have liked to have done a wash but I don't think I have any suitable colours.

Any advice appreciated,
VG

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Hi VG nice to hear from u again
For my Dwarves I start with a brown (not even a "flesh tone")
I do Skraag Brown, folled by ratskin flesh, then reikland flesh-shade, then I highlight with kislev flesh or kislev + Ratskin if that's looking too bright.
It keeps my Dwarves a little darker and redder than the elves
Hope that helps

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I will certainly be basecoating with a brown in the future as I just basecoated the flesh in cadian fleshtone and it took about 3 or 4 watered coats to look presentable!

What about if I wash this fleshtone with doombull brown and then reapply the fleshtone? Do you think that would be too muddy and brown or okay?

EDIT: Just tried the doombull wash on a spare mini, looks great. Will give that a try!

Thanks for your input James,

VG

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I don't know about GW colours, but for human skin I generally use army painters barbarian flesh with a simple quickshade,
Then again the only humans I paint, is casualties for basing

I'll just share my favourite page for tutorials, you may find something of interest there
http://tutofig.com/
Or in this case
http://tutofig.com/?category_name=painting-faces+en

The reaper forums have quite a lot of tutorials too
http://www.reapermini.com/forum/index.p ... /?p=476935
And they have a really helpful community too

Hi VG,

This is something similar to what you started out with:
http://www.coloureddust.com.pl/2012/08/how-to-paint-face-in-simple-way.html

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Usually start with a scab red and cadian fleshtone 50:50 mix, cadian fleshtone for a basic layer then mix with white for each subsequent layer.

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