Can anyone help with painting rawhide suede and buff leather please.

[Johnny Boy]

Help! I'm really struggling with painting leather especially with the lighter buff leathers and rawhide such as Cowboy chaps and FIW leggings. Anyone out there got suggestions? I usually use Vallejo Model Colour and Panzer Aces. Many thanks in advance
JB

[SteveBurt]

A mid brown (or a sandy colour for buff) followed by a wash of Sepia ink works for me.

[modelwarrior]

I use the follwing guide for leather if it helps:

https://www.heresybrush.com/en/2020/how-to-paint-leather/

The dark brown guide is my favourite.

[Bravo Six]

That's a great link modelwarrior. Thanks for sharing. LOADS of good tutorials there.

[Rogerc]

I use Colour Party paints for preference and they have both a leather brown and an ECW Buff, depending on what I am going for I tend to use these two in combination. The left two figures below had their gambesons painted using this.
IMG_20181101_140759 by Roger Castle, on Flickr


For lighter buff I use ECW buff as a basecoat then paint the basic buff over it as a highlight as below on the waistcoat, gloves etc.

swede5 by Roger Castle, on Flickr

[Johnny Boy]

Many thanks for the advice chaps, never used Colour Party but it has the kind of shades I had in mind. How do they compare to Vallejo MC? The link is really useful as well.

[Rogerc]

vwey different to Valejo, in old fashioned pots rather than squeeze bottles, generally much thicker paint so covers well.

[Johnny Boy]

Many thanks Roger. I might invest in some of those. I'm not adverse to mixing but if I can get away with a triad so much the better.
Thanks again
JB

[The Grim Mariner]

I use Vallejo Green Ochre as a base and then highlight with Iraqi Sand for clothing or Dark Sand for straps.

For natural leather straps and belts then I use Beasty Brown highlighted with thin stripes of ochre.