HELP! How does one paint Zulu's skin?

[Mad Carew Snr]

Please help a rank beginner to paint Zulus in a convincing manner!

I guess that there are tutorials on the net somewhere

Thanks

[Svennn]

Thanks to asking a similar question on this forum I use a very dark brown base coat (currently using Coat D'Arms Negro) and then highlight by adding Ivory.

[Mad Carew Snr]

Thankyou Svennn! I'm currently using Vallejo and was thinking Charred brown

[Yankeepedlar01]

Burnt Umber, black wash, dry brush Burnt Umber/Ivory mix.

[Wirelizard]

I've had good luck doing African/Negro skin with regular (Caucasian/pinkish) flesh paint, then a couple coats of Burnt Umber wash over it.

Gives a very nice shade - I'll try and get some closeups done in good light sometime soon of a couple 28mm sailors done this way.

[Mad Carew Snr]

Thankyou gentlemen

Wirelizard - yes please do post pics

[Wirelizard]

One of the sailors in my LPL3 Round 3 entry ("Merchant Sailors") is one of the finally completed Negro sailors I mentioned here months ago. Photo over on the LPL3 thread.

I'll get a closeup or two later this week when I'm photographing the next LPL3 round, and put them up here.

[keeper]

I've had some quite nice effects using black or very dark brown base and highlighting up to something like GW Dark Flesh and then adding a little bleached bone or ivory to the dark flesh for a final highlight.

[Mad Carew Snr]

Thanks gents  -  not surprisingly I still haven't painted them! 

[Lowtardog]

I've had some quite nice effects using black or very dark brown base and highlighting up to something like GW Dark Flesh and then adding a little bleached bone or ivory to the dark flesh for a final highlight.

I used that for 20mm, another option is to work up and use the GW Calthyun (not sure of exact word) foundation for the highlights with an umber wash

[JollyBob]

My own recipe is

Black undercoat
GW Bestial Brown basecoat
Brown ink wash
Bestial Brown highlight
Bestial Brown and Bronzed Flesh (2:1) final highlight

The final highlight can often look a little light, but miraculously it all comes together under the varnish.

I'd show you some pictures, but Photobucket appears to be experiencing some difficulty for some reason. 

[Mad Carew Snr]

Cheers Bob
When Photophucket is working I'd like the link

[JollyBob]

Finally seems to be working again, so as promised some examples of my negro skin:









All done to the same recipe, more or less. There may be some variation in the final highlight.

[Mad Carew Snr]

Hey nice work Bob
The guys with the shields look like something out of Tintin in the Congo! Where do the figures come from?

[JollyBob]

Cheers. 

Those little guys are Kallistra pygmies (listed under 28mm Fantasy).

http://www.kallistra.co.uk/

I have far too many of them to be sensible.