How do YOU paint "Zombie skin"?

[Melnibonean]

My recipie is pretty easy.

1.   Paint a very light shade of flesh tone.

2.   A good coat of blue wash

3.   Mix some of the very pale flesh with a touch of middle green and drybrush.

4.   Touch up areas around the eyes, open mouths and wounds etc, with a red wash (the GW one works well for this).

[magokiron]

Wicked miniatures Melnibonean!

Who makes them and what game do you use them for?

My recipie is pretty easy.

1.   Paint a very light shade of flesh tone.

2.   A good coat of blue wash

3.   Mix some of the very pale flesh with a touch of middle green and drybrush.

4.   Touch up areas around the eyes, open mouths and wounds etc, with a red wash (the GW one works well for this).

Sounds easy and the pic shows VERY GOOD results, thank you.

No secret really just playing with palettes,
Three colour options that work well:

Grey, overwashed with thinned purple ink + green citadel wash, highlights picked out in grey + touch of rotting flesh (GW)

Camo green (GW), washed with thinned purple ink, red ink + green citadel wash, highlights picked out in thinned camo green(GW)/rotting flesh(GW).

Rotting flesh (GW) washed with thinned purple ink + green citadel wash, highlights first with rotting flesh (GW) and a tiny spot of purple ink, then rotting flesh highlighted with a touch of bleached bone(GW).

Just play around and see what you come up, good luck, post up when painted.

The Commander

Thank you. The "three colour palette" sounds like a great idea.

I'll try and see.

I'm quite lazy too:

1) Grey primer
2) VGC Heavy Warmgrey basecoat
3) Wash of ~ 2:1 mix of Leviatan Purple and Badab Black
4) VGC Heavy Warmgrey highlight

Now Stahlfürst, THAT certaily is "Fast and easy" and the "Leviathan purple" looks amazing!.

Thank you so much.

LAF members are so friendly and talented and give so good advices... 

Thanks again and best wishes.

[maxxev]

It's never come up, but I would probably aim to be as far away from the zombie as possible.... perhaps a paint ball gun?....

Those minis in the last post are from Wyrd miniatures, I obviously cannot answer the second part of the question (though one could guess at Malifaux, for obvious reasons (being that it's the Wryd game)).

[magokiron]

Just saw this at TMP by Steve Trustrum:



It looks good and the recipe sounds pretty easy too:

White primer with a thinned layer of dead flesh green as a base. I then used marrow brown ink and went back with flesh green to dry brush and highlight. It's my standard zombie flesh paint process. I tried it with greys and / or flesh tones (barbarian, tanned, etc.) using odd highlights and inks, but this is what has worked out best for me.

Full TMP thread here: http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=270206

Best wishes.

[Melnibonean]

Wicked miniatures Melnibonean!

Who makes them and what game do you use them for?

These are from Malifaux by Wyrd (so is the figure above).

[Pil]

I do the following:

1) black undercoat
2) drybrush Aleene's Dusty Grey (similar to P3 Ironhull Grey but with some brown mixed in)
3) drybrush mix of Aleene's Dusty Grey + Coat d'Arms Hideous Blue
3) drybrush mix of Aleene's Dusty Grey + Coat d'Arms Hideous Blue + White

After that I pick out the bones and dirty it up with Vallejo Smoke (Model or Game Color are both good) and Tamiya Clear Red, this adds a bit of colour variation to the grey.

This is the result: