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Offline Mad Carew Snr

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Re: HELP! How does one paint Zulu's skin?
« Reply #15 on: 18 May 2009, 07:01:44 PM »
Oh right! I haven't purchased from them before - must look again (apologies to the Bank Manager)
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Offline Malamute

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Re: HELP! How does one paint Zulu's skin?
« Reply #16 on: 21 May 2009, 06:48:56 PM »
Nice figures JB. Your collection is starting to look seriously good ;D

I have a similar mix. GW Scorched Earth over a black undercoat, then GW Bestial Brown and finally a little bit of flesh mixed in for high highlight.
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Offline Braxandur

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Re: HELP! How does one paint Zulu's skin?
« Reply #17 on: 07 July 2009, 01:57:01 PM »
I recently tried a (for me new) method, which actually worked quite fine.

The model should be undercoated black
dark flesh (VMC) is used for all the skin except shaded parts
A liberal wash of (GW) Badab black is applied on the miniature
Dark flesh is used for highliting.

The end result will be something like:


Though it looks somewahat better IRL then it does on the pictures
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