painting "redskins"

[swordman]

hello, being a greenhorn in the F&I wars. I ordered some Mohawk warriors at the Galloping Major Wargames website. can someone give me some tips how to paint indians?
thanks

[Galloping Major]

Hi Swordsman,

For flesh colours I normally use the Foundry 3 pot system these days (not the fancy new ones, the plain old original set) - I use these for European flesh too, using Flesh A, B and C over a base of Dusky flesh A (or any other suitable dark brown. I tend to mix inter-shades too where the progressions seem too harsh. The only difference I make between Native Americans and Europeans is that I use flesh C for Europeans' highlights, but stop at B, or B mixed with a tad of C for highlighting Indians - it works for me anyway.  

You could easily adopt a similar method by selecting 3 or 4 fleshes and a brown from the ranges of Citadel, Vallejo, or whichever paint you prefer.

I know that similar requests for painting "redskins" have cropped up before on here, so hopefully Captain Blood or one of the other chaps will direct us to them, as I seem to recall they contain some great and varied hints.

Also, you'll have seen several regular FIW contributors on here doing excellent paint jobs, so let's hope we hear from them too



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[Aaron]

I start off with Vallejo game colors beastly brown (basically the same as GW's beast brown). Then I slowly add in Vallejo beige red (very close to GW dwarf flesh) and a touch of VGC/GW elf flesh for highlights. Sometimes I'll throw in a bit of Vallejo red leather or another similar color to vary things up a bit.

[swordman]

Thanks all for the info. will give it a try.

[FifteensAway]

I use a simple method, a reddish skin tone followed by a thin washed of red-brown (fairly thin).  I suppose I could enhance it with a bit of highlighting but the process satisfies me.  Simple is always better when you have lots of figures to paint.

[Captain Blood]

Several previous threads on this topic if you use the search facility 

I'd start with Galloping Major's own thread http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=24310.0

[mikedemana]

My choice is a Red Brown basecoat (I use Ral Partha/Iron Wind "Red Brown").  Then I dry brush an ordinary ruddy flesh over it.  My flesh of choice right now is just ordinary Delta Ceramcoat "craft paint" flesh tone.  I then do a black wash over it all...

Here's a pic...

Mike