Middle Eastern and Indian Skintones

[Bravo Six]

How do you guys do your skin tones for Middle Eastern and Indian characters?

-Todd

[Plynkes]

Okay, so none of the proper painters have chimed in yet so I'm afraid you're stuck with me, the chap they've left to answer the phone.

I'm pretty much a GW kind of chap when it comes to paint, as that's all I can get without going mail-order (which I occasionally do, mind).  I use a combination of Dark Flesh (for the shadows) and Vermin Brown mixed with varying amounts of Bronzed Flesh for the mid-tones and highlights.

Don't have any pics to hand of the results, but I can get some later if you'd like to judge for yourself.

[Bravo Six]

Thanks Polynikes. Pics whenever you can manage them would be great. Glad they left you to answer the phone old boy... better than it ringing for hours. Or in this case, days.  :roll:

-Todd

[Plynkes]

Sorry, haven't got around to it yet. I've been too lazy. No, I mean busy. Yes, busy, that's the word.

I will though, promise. It's just I'm going away for a bit so it will have to be when I get back. Sorry about that.

(But it's not as if they're amazing paint-jobs or anything, so don't get your hopes up.)

[vikotnik]

I would try my hand on it with the following colours:

Base: VGC 'Beasty Brown' (GW 'Bestial Brown')+ VGC 'Smokey Ink'

Highlight with a mixture of VGC 'Beasty Brown', VGC 'Orange Fire'(GW Hobgoblin Orange, I believe) and just a driplet VGC 'Bone White'(Don't know the friggin' GW name anymore...) until You are satisfied.

Glaze very thinly with Pelikan Drawing Ink #15 Sepia to get that special greyish hue.

Sorry, no pics. But try it, it works.




Trust me.

[Zafarelli]

VGC 'Bone White'(Don't know the friggin' GW name anymore...

Should be Bleached Bone.

[vikotnik]

Heretic. :mrgreen:

[Plynkes]

Finally got around to finding a pic, sorry for the delay:


The two on the right were painted as described above, the left-hand one was done as a black African. As they're from the Swahili coast I thought a mix of Arabs and Arabised Africans would look cool, especially as some of the figures have distinctly African features.

I tried this colour scheme out as a test, as I've got lots of Indian Infantry and other stuff like that to do soon. I'm pretty pleased with it, though I may well try something else for when I do the Indians. Ain't decided yet.

[Hammers]

Are they Foundry?

I am asking 'cause I don't recognize the monkey with an arab on his ass.

[Plynkes]

Yeah, Foundry Darkest Africa sculpted by Mark Copplestone.

I think originally he was just a normal Zanzibari from a pack. When they reorganised the packs (i.e. put less in each one) he (along with the two chaps flanking him) became the extra "free" figures that you got if you bought the whole Zanzibari collection. That's how I got him.

Now the free extras seem to have vanished altogether from the site. Maybe they still send them to you, but they are not pictured.

[Hammers]

I think originally he was just a normal Zanzibari from a pack. When they reorganised the packs (i.e. put less in each one) he (along with the two chaps flanking him) became the extra "free" figures that you got if you bought the whole Zanzibari collection.´..Now the free extras seem to have vanished altogether from the site...

Oh, how fed up I am with these little marketing scams they (and others) are pulling off. I wish they just could put their damn wares up for sale and let people pay for them!