How do you paint your...

[General Roos]

How do you paint your caucasian skintones? Layers, highlights etc

And what kind of paint do you use? Citadel, The Army Painter, Vallejo?

I apologize if the thread already exist.

Cheers from Stockholm, glittering in the evening sun. 

[Daeothar]

OK, I'll bite...

I usually basecoat with GW Bubonic Brown. Then a wash of dilluted brown ink. Then back with the Bubonic Brown, and this gets mixed up with white (usually Vallejo Game Colour) to the highest tone I like. Most faces in 28 mm will take me through 5 or 6 layers, with some light wet blending here and there (forehead and cheeks). Highest highlight is usually some white on the cheekbones, nose and brows. The overal look can of course be varied to match the skin tone of your liking.

I mix in some (very, very tiny amount of) red into the mix for the colour of the lips and sometimes a bit on the cheeks as well (ruddy dwarf faces for example). Some purple can be used as well, for righs under the eyes or a general sickly look.

Some very light grey can be used for very old looking figures too btw...

Hope that helps.

[Argonor]

Basecoat: Dwarf Flesh with a bit of Dark Flesh or Bestial Brown
Main colour 1: Dwarf Flesh
Main Colour 2/first highlight: 50/50 mix of Dwarf Flesh and Elf Flesh
Highlight: Elf Flesh

This is for run-of-the-mill flesh.

If I'm doing a female character, more intermediate tones to make features softer. And maybe Dwarf Flesh as basecoat.

[Aaron]

Here is a tutorial from one of those talented Spanich bastards that keep making me want to chuck all of my paints out: http://www.bennosfigures.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=540

Now that is a lot more work that most people want to put into a gaming figure, but I personally found it very helpful and it clued me into the usefulness of some Vallejo colors like Brown Rose I had overlooked before. I've copied his pallette and I think it has helped me quite a bit.

Before reading that I used Beast Brown, Dwarf Flesh or VMC red beige (almost identical) and elf flesh like some of the other people here.