15mm African Flesh?

[Bravo Six]

Looking for a quick and effective recipe for African flesh for 15mm figs. I use a 4+ color recipe for regular caucasian flesh for 28mm, but I use a 2 step recipe in 15mm (Tanned Flesh base, and Cadian Flesh highlight).

Any ideas would be appreciated.

[FierceKitty]

Africa's an awfully big place.

[Bravo Six]

Sheesh. Bit technical are we? 

Black skin then.

[randwulf]

Vallejo burnt umber and Citadel nuln oil wash?

[Vis Bellica]

Hi

I would try something with GW Contrast Paints. Although I haven't done specifically African flesh, I am using them for my Classical Indians. The picture below shows a 15mm figure from Museum Miniatures painted with one coat of a 50/50 mix of Cygor Brown and Fyreslayer Flesh. Nothing complicated: I just washed out an empty paint pot and poured about half a pot of each colour in (no precise measuring required!) and then shook it really well. I've done my whole Classicial Indian army (c. 200 figures) from that one mixed pot and it's still going strong.



More examples at: https://www.vislardica.com/blog/2020/12/23/classical-indian-heroes

I got that recipe from the Internet, so I'd suggest a search of 'African flesh using Contrast paints' or similar.

[Bravo Six]

Thanks for the input guys. Someone on another forum linked me up to this page:

https://balagan.info/painting-skin-tones-on-15mm-wargaming-figures

Consider this solved. 

[Cacique Caribe]

That’s an excellent link!

Dan
PS.  Now if only I could remember which Americana craft paint colors we used here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/9593487@N07/albums/72157600724909419

[Bravo Six]

Those aren't yours are they Dan? They're quite well done.

[Plynkes]

Those aren't yours are they Dan? They're quite well done.

Ouch! Sick burn!

 

(I'm sure he didn't mean it that way. Right, Todd?)

[Bravo Six]

Oh, I totally didn't mean it that way!!!! 

I meant because Dan is a 15mm guy, and those are 28's.

[Cacique Caribe]

Guys

LOL.  I never took it the wrong way. 

I started off doing plastic 1/72 as a kid.  Then I moved on to 28mm metal figures and still have a few batches I refuse to part with, like my early colonial period in the New World (mainly the Caribbean).  I also have lots of El Cid period Andalusians and Berbers left.

Inevitably I finally realized that the terrain projects I had in mind would never work if I did them for 28mm.  If I made them I would never have enough room in the house for them.  That’s when I took the 15mm plunge, with very, very few regrets. 

Dan
PS.  When my nephew and I were painting those Cimaroons, our closest family friend (of Jamaican and Afro-Panamanian descent) suggested that we find colors that would match her skin color.  She wanted to be our model, basically.  Lol

[Bravo Six]

That’s when I took the 15mm plunge, with very, very few regrets. 

I always wondered how you got into 15mm. You're quite prolific. 

When my nephew and I were painting those Cimaroons, our closest family friend (of Jamaican and Afro-Panamanian descent) suggested that we find colors that would match her skin color.  She wanted to be our model, basically.

That's very cool. 

[Cacique Caribe]

I always wondered how you got into 15mm. You're quite prolific. 

Blame it on terrain.  It’s terrain’s fault. 

Dan

[Cacique Caribe]

This might help:
 


https://blog.vexillia.me.uk/2021/02/15-mm-flesh-pots.html

Excellent link!

Dan

[Bravo Six]

Yes, that IS a good link. Kinda similar in context to the one I posted.

Blame it on terrain.  It’s terrain’s fault

I can see that. Terrain in that scale IS pretty wonderful.