Round 4 - Heroes of India vs. Sikhs

[Prof.Witchheimer]

[Arcticman]

Those are the finest painted Sikhs I have ever seen!    :love:
The skintone, the eyes, the perfect balance!

What make are they?

[Hammers]

Real beauties.

[dominic]

Thanks!
They are Foundry from the NW Frontier range!

[Argonor]

@Dominic: What skin tones did you use? It looks very 'real' Indian!

[dominic]

Hi, the skin tone is very simple!  No mixing required!

- base coat of GW Dark Flesh
- highlight of GW Tanned Flesh
- GW Scorched Brown for the deep shadows.

[Argonor]

Great! I'll probably try it out very soon. Thanks!  

Edit: Btw - what colours do you use for the wood (rifles)?

[dominic]

GW Bestial Brown + highlight of white
Flesh wash in the grooves

[Argonor]

Okies! I've always wondered how to highlight wood - must be the fact that I've always been a lazy painter only wanting to use the colours straight out of the pot  ::

Only the last year or so I've been mixing. Seems like the way forward. Must get me some more mixing pots  

[Khartoum]

Love the perfect skin tone on the Sikhs.  The overall result of these figures is fantastic.  Hope to see some more of the figure on the forum soon

[Gluteus Maximus]

Dom,

I presume you've used the 0.5 drawing pen for the eyes?  It looks very good indeed. Painting eyes is very tough & many an otherwise wonderful figure is let down by them.

Yours are spot-on [pun intended  :: ]

Your Indian skin tone is lovely, but I've noticed a lot of Northern Indians, including Sikhs, Afghans etc have very light skin, compared to people from Delhi, Madras etc. A differnt shade from European skin, but not much darker. Still miles better than anything I've achieved so far & I have all the paints on your list, so I'll have a go at your method soon!

Cheers,
Ian