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Title: Painting Oriental Skin
Post by: KeyanSark on April 03, 2007, 08:50:47 AM

Hi All

I am going to start painting some Bob Murch miniatures (the sinister Dr. Koo and his evil minions). I'd like to know which mix of paint you use to create the lighter oriental skintone without making it look "yellow" as in old comic-books.

I mainly use Vallejo Game Color and Model Color paints

Title: Painting Oriental Skin
Post by: Squint on April 03, 2007, 10:42:27 AM

Hi,

I mainly use Vallejo paints too, but for flesh tones I've been using the same 30ml pot of Humbrol acrylic flesh (now out of production) for about five years and I've been using this for everything.

However, this pot of paint is now down to dregs so I've had to start experimenting with other shades.

I have ben working on some of Copplestone's Gurkha figures and for these I have been experimenting with GW's bronzed flesh. I started with a white base coat over the black primer, then a brown leather colour over the white as my base. Then I build up the flesh tones by mixing ever more white into the bronzed flesh..this gives a skin tone that is noticeably different from normal "pink" flesh without being too weird.

I can't post a pic at the moment as all the figures I've got using this technique have been gloss varnished but not matted yet. (I usually allow at least a week for gloss varnish to dry out properly before using any matt.)


Squint.

Title: Painting Oriental Skin
Post by: Malamute on April 03, 2007, 01:40:28 PM

Yep, same for me, GW bronzed flesh as base tone. I use the Foundry flesh paints for Europeans. They contrast is quite effective.

http://www.displacedminiatures.com/Malamute/image.html?galleryId=1111&imageId=9283

Title: Painting Oriental Skin
Post by: KeyanSark on April 03, 2007, 01:58:08 PM

I'm not too tempted to start buying GW paints... By fortune, this color table will help me with that  :wink:

http://home.att.net/%7Ekatamaran/vallejo.html

Title: Painting Oriental Skin
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on April 03, 2007, 04:28:14 PM

my Vallejo version:

Orange Brown -> Medium Fleshtone -> Sunny Skintone

(http://www.witchhunter.net/blog/images/06_11_24_dr_fu_manchu.jpg)

Title: Painting Oriental Skin
Post by: KeyanSark on April 03, 2007, 04:29:42 PM

Thanks, prof!!

Title: Painting Oriental Skin
Post by: O gato Mortimer on April 05, 2007, 04:13:11 PM

Hello. To "exploit" this topic, I like to know how to paint europeans skins with vallejo paints because I don't find a good results with my attempts.
Thanks.  :)

Title: Painting Oriental Skin
Post by: Argonor on April 08, 2007, 05:31:46 PM

Nice colours for the 'darker' eastern orientals there, Prof.! Tibetans and south eastern asians (including South China) are spot on, as far as I can see from the pics. Maybe even Mongols.

I think I would prefer a tone slightly lighter for east-eastern skin (Korean, Japanese, North Chinese and the likes), though. And also for women.

Anyone got some good 3-colour series they'd like to share?