Help with Sikh flesh

[Svennn]

Anybody got a recipe or good tips for Indian flesh?

I have just spent 3/4 of an hour looking for a picture I remember seeing in recent months with no joy - its probably me, its my age you know.

There is a pic of various manufacturers alongside each other showing compatability and amongst them is a Seikh infantryman which I would like to refer to for ideas on the flesh.

Or if anybody has some pics they could post I would be forever in their debt.

I find it very odd that over 30 years of doing this hobby I have never painted anything other than caucasians (other than green/blue/rotting etc.)

I am ordering some Askaris tonight but I have the Prof.s Plaka Brown with Ivory to try for those.

thanks in advance   Svennn

[Plynkes]

I use GW Dark Flesh, Vermin Brown and Bronzed Flesh for Indian and Middle East skintones.

A little bit of all three for the basic colour.
Dark Flesh+Vermin Brown for the shadows.
Vermin Brown+Bronzed flesh for the highlights.

It'll do for now till I find something better.

Here's how it looks:


And on some Baluchis (kindly donated to the cause by a generous mystery LAFer):



Same paints were used with these Turks:





The belly-dancer is also painted using these colours, just in a slightly different combination:

[Super_Gibbon]

Plynkes, I love your stuff there. Where did the guy with the monkey on his shoulder come from?
 
I'll have to use your formula for some of my Turks too. I'll mix them up.

Since you're giving up the goods here, let me ask you what your formula was on the uniform of the first Turk there?

[Svennn]

thanks Plynkes

that was a very thorough and swift response - much appreciated

[Plynkes]

This guy? He's a Copplestone sculpt for Foundry's Darkest Africa range. Originally you could just buy him, but then they went all limited edition on us and you could only get him if you bought all the Zanzibaris at once.

Heaven knows what hoops you have to jump through to get him these days!  :roll:

As for the Turkish fellow's uniform: I wish I could remember, because that's the shade I want for my rank and file troops! I really ought to get into the habit of writing these things down.

I think it is a combination of Graveyard Earth, Bestial Brown and ... um, something else which I can't for the life of me recall.

Bugger.

[Helen]

Plynkes, I love your stuff there. Where did the guy with the monkey on his shoulder come from?
 
I'll have to use your formula for some of my Turks too. I'll mix them up.

Since you're giving up the goods here, let me ask you what your formula was on the uniform of the first Turk there?

Hi

We use a number of different paints for the Turks. For example:
Tamiya - Dark Yellow with Tamiya Khaki highlights;
Vallejo - Base colour Japanese Uniform followed Vellejo Khaki Grey (To get the Khaki Sand mixed with Iraqi Sand as highlight.

Sikhs

I use Vellejo 142 US field Drab then this is lightened.
Webbing is a Bestial Brown and black mix. The "Bread Bag is a very light mix of US Field Drab and white.

Helen

[aecurtis]

Why so dark on the Sikhs?  This guy's dark, but he's only temporarily "Sikh"-seeming:



Sikhs come in a wide variety of skin tones.  Some are dark indeed, but many are lighter than many Caucasians, Sikh ethnicity stemming from religious choice rather than caste or "race".

Allen

[Plynkes]

Modelled on my friend Jaspal. He's roughly that dark.

Anyway, why dig up a two-year-old thread just to have a go at my painting?  I am two years worth of painting experience better at this now than I was then (and they were the first and only Sikhs I've ever painted). I'm doing some Sikhs for my Central Africa Rifles soon, and rest assured I shall not be using the same approach. While I'm happy with my gun crew as they are, I want the new batch to be more like Monty Panesar...



 

[HerbyF]

I know many Sikhs both locally here in Washington state & in the Vancouver BC Canada area. And they have quite a range of skin tones. Some are as pale as many Europeans & other are very dark. The average & most common I think is a ruddy tan to brown. I paint mine different almost every time I paint some up.

[aecurtis]

Anyway, why dig up a two-year-old thread just to have a go at my painting?

Didn't dig it up.  I was looking at the Colonial board and it popped up.  Weird.  Kismet, apparently.

Allen

[Hammers]

While all ethnicities may vary quite a lot in hair colour and skin, I tend to stick to the stereotypical look. It is not for reasons of bigotry or laziness, it just that we deal in representations and often need some to resort to a common perception to make troops look coherent and identifiable.


I start with Vallejo Dark Umber and work my way up with IWO caucasian skin tones. That way they get a 'swarty' look, which works with peoples of very dark hair colour and medium skin.

[NurgleHH]

Try this and you will never again have problems with skin:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/go.php/go/articlephp/aid/310/page/2?

[Admiral Benbow]

Try this and you will never again have problems with skin:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/go.php/go/articlephp/aid/310/page/2?

Very interesting article there, thanks for the link!
 

[Hammers]

Very interesting article there, thanks for the link!
 

It is a good approximation. I have used it to quite a few times.