From leeerikson@aol.com Mon Sep 28 10:48:16 1998 Date: 24 Sep 1998 05:56:13 GMT From: LeeErikson Newsgroups: rec.games.miniatures.misc Subject: Re: Painting BLACK SKIN Americana acryllic craft paints makes an excellent BURNT UMBER and RAW UMBER. These can be cut with flesh tone or used as is to achieve realistic variations in African skin tones. ----- From kirel@earth.execpc.com Mon Sep 28 10:48:23 1998 Date: 24 Sep 1998 10:30:55 -0500 From: Joe Schulte Well, doing a Warzone Centurion (whole thing probably took 15 minutes if you don't count drying time and looks better than stuff I've spent hours on) I simply used Ral Partha "African", did a black wash over that, and highlighted with a slightly lightened "African". Looked pretty good. -Mer "Don't try using metallics for a Dennis Rodman haircut, tho" idian ----- From hutch@lida.net Mon Sep 28 10:48:30 1998 Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:54:02 -0500 From: "K. Hutchinson" For "black skin," one of the ways I have tried is to first give the figure a coat of orange and white mix or any flesh tone you prefer. Then paint over with thin downed brown. The undercoat will shine through the brown and make the figure lighter. If you start with black and work up to brown, the figure will look too dark. For highlight, just use a brown white mix, more brown than white. IOW, paint the figure skin like a Caucasian and then use other colors to get the skin tone you like. Then add the highlights. ----- From ericre@microsoft.com Mon Sep 28 10:48:37 1998 Date: 24 Sep 1998 19:55:51 GMT From: Eric Reel The key to painting black skin is to use the standard 'flesh' color as a starting point & mix in a bit of brown to shade it. Resist the temptation to lighten up a black or brown. Use black or brown for shading, depending on how much constrast you want. Eric > For Asians I can help you - not with citadel colours tho! Asians are > not actually yellow skinned. They are a deep brown when they are on > campaign as they tan very very well. I use a combination of 1:1:1 > Yellow:Yellow Oxide:Dk Brown. Mix them up and they do well. When dry > go over it with brown artist inks to highlight! > > Ian ----- From mreindl@mammoth.psnw.com Mon Sep 28 10:49:05 1998 Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 16:36:13 -0700 From: Mark Reindl I use the new Citadel Dark Flesh, and highlight it with a mix of bronzed flesh and dark flesh, which seems to work pretty well. As for asian, no clue there. I do have one black scout in my Scout Squad, and also have recently finished a black Orlock Ganger as well. You can see the Scout at http://www.psnw.com/~mreindl/40k.html for about the next week before that site goes down. I will have some new pictures up at my new site before too long. Also, if anyone is interested in my (shameless self-promotion) new Battletech page, it's at http://www.jps.net/mreindl/battletech.htm. It's a little rough, but the pictures look good. Just click on the thumbnails for a closer look! Mark ----- From sgerrish@jeffco.k12.co.us Mon Sep 28 10:52:17 1998 Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 19:47:09 +0000 From: Sacha Gerrish Use Ral Partha paints, "African" brown, with Citadel Snakebite Leather highlight. ----- From jatkins6@ix.you.know.what.to.remove.netcom.com Mon Sep 28 10:52:26 1998 Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 14:49:21 GMT From: "John M. Atkinson" On Wed, 23 Sep 1998 22:13:29 +0100, "Martin Goddard" wrote: > For "black skin" try a black undercoat with chocolate brown highlights. That's what I did with the elephant mahout and the Numidian light horse in my Carthaginian army and I'm happy with the way it turned out. Used Armory chocolate brown, BTW. Makes for really dark Africans. John M. Atkinson -----