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Offline Bravo Six

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15mm African Flesh?
« on: February 06, 2021, 02:47:22 AM »
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. :)

Offline FierceKitty

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Re: 15mm African Flesh?
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2021, 03:17:05 AM »
Africa's an awfully big place.
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Offline Bravo Six

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Re: 15mm African Flesh?
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2021, 03:42:55 AM »
Sheesh. Bit technical are we?  :?

Black skin then.

Offline randwulf

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Re: 15mm African Flesh?
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2021, 10:01:56 AM »
Vallejo burnt umber and Citadel nuln oil wash?
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Offline Vis Bellica

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Re: 15mm African Flesh?
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2021, 10:12:08 AM »
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.

Offline Bravo Six

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Re: 15mm African Flesh?
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2021, 11:46:45 AM »
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.  :D

Offline Cacique Caribe

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Re: 15mm African Flesh?
« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2021, 02:03:20 PM »
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
« Last Edit: February 06, 2021, 02:20:48 PM by Cacique Caribe »

Offline Bravo Six

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Re: 15mm African Flesh?
« Reply #7 on: February 07, 2021, 10:34:25 PM »
Those aren't yours are they Dan? They're quite well done.

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Re: 15mm African Flesh?
« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2021, 10:41:36 PM »
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?)


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Offline Bravo Six

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Re: 15mm African Flesh?
« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2021, 10:44:15 PM »
Oh, I totally didn't mean it that way!!!!  lol

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

Offline Cacique Caribe

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Re: 15mm African Flesh?
« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2021, 09:27:03 PM »
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
« Last Edit: February 10, 2021, 09:32:08 PM by Cacique Caribe »

Offline Bravo Six

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Re: 15mm African Flesh?
« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2021, 11:01:32 PM »
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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.  :D

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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.  :D


Offline Cacique Caribe

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Re: 15mm African Flesh?
« Reply #12 on: February 11, 2021, 02:06:25 AM »
I always wondered how you got into 15mm. You're quite prolific.  :D

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

Dan

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Re: 15mm African Flesh?
« Reply #13 on: February 12, 2021, 07:01:41 PM »

Offline Cacique Caribe

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Re: 15mm African Flesh?
« Reply #14 on: February 23, 2021, 08:54:22 PM »

 

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