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Miniatures Adventure => VSF Adventures => Topic started by: Sinewgrab on 20 September 2011, 06:35:04 AM

Title: Painting Red Martians
Post by: Sinewgrab on 20 September 2011, 06:35:04 AM

Does anyone else have trouble with this? I can paint green all day long, but I CANNOT get a good red skin tone. I just stripped my Bronze Age minis for the third time because I cannot get a good skin tone.

I *know* that somoene did a tutorial on here after an LPL, but I can neither find it nor remember who exactly it was...


HELP!!!

Title: Re: Painting Red Martians
Post by: fastolfrus on 20 September 2011, 08:25:40 AM

Not sure, but the last time we did anything on those lines we used a red oxide primer (although pale grey works too) and for the main paint Tamiya Hull Red, final brown/sepia ink wash over to tone it down slightly.

Title: Re: Painting Red Martians
Post by: Anpu on 20 September 2011, 08:34:42 AM

Heldrak did a tutorial here http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=11089.msg131839#msg131839 (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=11089.msg131839#msg131839)

Title: Re: Painting Red Martians
Post by: Heldrak on 20 September 2011, 11:28:56 AM

Quote from: Sinewgrab on 20 September 2011, 06:35:04 AM

I *know* that somoene did a tutorial on here after an LPL, but I can neither find it nor remember who exactly it was...

How fleeting is fame...  ::)

Title: Re: Painting Red Martians
Post by: Sinewgrab on 20 September 2011, 03:39:14 PM

Now, don't get your panties in a twist - at least I knew where I had seen it, and didn't go asking the question on, like, Frothers.

Blessed be the cheesemakers!

Title: Re: Painting Red Martians
Post by: Krysset80 on 21 September 2011, 02:47:39 PM

Vallejo skin wash ink works very well with red, found it to red to go with skin in fact.

Title: Re: Painting Red Martians
Post by: Skratch on 21 September 2011, 07:07:13 PM

Nice tutorial. May come in handy as my skills can use some improvement.