Anybody got any recipes for olive skin?

[FramFramson]

Just wondering if anyone has any decent olive skintone recipes (preferably using GW paints, seeing as that's what I have).

I've already had to toothbrush-and-acetone-strip a figure two-and-a-half times in one night (granted, the last time was because of a problem with my gesso) and if I inhale any more fumes, I suspect I'll start walking into walls or something. That or my liver will serve me with a restraining order.

(I don't usually use nearly so much, but lordy-lord did I ever bungle the job).

EDIT: This is sort of the effect I'm looking for, though I'm thinking more "Mediterranean" rather than Asian:



Please and thanks!

[oldskoolrebel]

Try GWs Tallarn Flesh. I've used it to good effect.

For arabic skin I've used it neat, followed by a wash of devlan mud, and then reapplied tallarn flesh, I think I used a 50:50 mix of tallarn flesh and elf flesh for highlights.

I'd use the same basic formula but after the wash of devlan mud, I'd apply a 75:25 mix of tallarn flesh to elf flesh, and lighten up the the highlights. Never tried it, but I think it may work.

Also to get darker asian/north african skin, start with either neat beastial brown or a mix of beastial brown and tallarn flesh.

Man I gotta love tallarn flesh! The only worry is I don't think they sell it anymore 

Cheers
Andy

[AndrewBeasley]

One of the best skin tutorials (that kinda sounds wrong) is on Cool Mini here

Hope it helps
Andrew

[FramFramson]

One of the best skin tutorials (that kinda sounds wrong) is on Cool Mini here

Hope it helps
Andrew

Link doesn't seem to work, andrew. Sorry!

And I (sadly), don't have any tallarn flesh. I'll see if I can suss some out from a local store... if I'm lucky they still haven't sent back their old paints yet. If not, I think the new equivalent is supposed to be Cadian Fleshtone.

Edit: Never mind, got the link to work. It just needed a few characters on the end pruned.

[Stu]

That is an excellent link!Thank you Andrew!

[valleyboy]

GW snakebite leather on a black undercoat
Gradually add some flesh  and mix with snakebite ( I use VJ flesh mid tone- but it should work with  GW flesh I would think) and add lighter flesh to progressive mix according to taste
That's how I did my arabs - this is Mustaffa Neyop (pays to get the eyes right )

 

[Hammers]

I use the foundry triads for everything but caucasion. They have middle eastern and oriental sets which should do the trick.

[Clearco]

I had the same troubles looking for a natural looking mediterranian skin tone.
I remember using tallarn flesh, then a wash with ogryn flesh as a base. Then I made a mix of tallarn flesh and Vallejo bronzed flesh (I think the old GW bronzed flesh would also work...How I miss this colour!) with gradualy more Vallejo until I got the effect I wanted. I don´t remember if I gave then another wash with ogryn flesh or gryphone sepia but I think that´s not so necessary
Here the result:


Edit: Maybe you can make highlights with the bronzed flesh on the tallarn flesh BEFORE applying ogryn wash, and then make a pair of highlights more with bronzed flesh once it is dried. Every layer of bronzed flesh should then be more watered-down that the previous one and be aplied on a more little surface, so you don´t have to mix the colours in order to get lighter ones. The colour progression should be very smooth that way
It is only another idea if you want to do it quickier

[FramFramson]

That's a very nice tone on that figure.

I eventually used the tallarn flesh mixed with various other things and several washes, (mostly with sepia to warm the tone) and produced this figure:



Perhaps a touch more middle-eastern than Mediterranean, but my photo shows the skin just a touch darker than it is in real life and it's close enough for me that I can chalk it up to a slightly deeper tan.  

[Clearco]

That´s really nice!