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how do you paint your skin
Topic Started: 30th April 2005 - 09:22 PM (538 Views)
warmaster
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hmm i was wondering how people paint thier skin. Please stay with gw clouors.

i play eshin and im trying different paint schemes but i cant get one that looks right. Thank you in advance

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i do bestial brown, then dwarf flesh, then black ink, but i dont go for too much detail.
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The Mad Ratter
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it depends what your painting, like Skaven, Humans, Dwarves, or whatever.
I tend to use diffent methods for the different races.
I could be more specific if I knew what you were playing
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I think he said eshin rats.

Most people go for dwarf flesh or elf flesh, though I prefer to dull the color with a mix.

My clanrats are done with elf flesh mixed codex grey, working up with decreasing amounts of grey till pure elf flesh highlightz. It's as close as i could get to mouse skin (pale, greyish with strong pink highlights.

I tend to mix paints for the others, elf flesh with a hint of bestial and sometimes codex, highlight with elfflesh.
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My clanrats(over twohundred) are dwarfflesh over chaos black, the other rats are
Chaos black with tanned flesh drybrushed over it, higlitdet with dwarfflesh
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i play eshin and im trying different paint schemes but i cant get one that looks right. Thank you in advance


does that answer your question??

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warmaster
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i play eshin and im trying different paint schemes but i cant get one that looks right. Thank you in advance


does that answer your question??

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Yup, sorry, Im very busy and don't get to sleep much these days. Its all a blur.


At any rate. I start with Terracotta as a base over black undercoat. Then I start mixing in Tanned flesh and do successive highlights till Im at pure TF after which I start mixing in Dwarf Flesh. Pure Dwarf Flesh is used as the final highlight

Of course, this is only for my Brown furred Clanrats and Slaves. For Stormvermin, or any other model with non brown fur I use different colours.


Mutate:I suggest you mix out some colours on palletes to see how they're gonna turn out and what you like (I use old lids from Yogurt containers). It also lets you have a reference to help keep the mixed colours as uniform as possible.
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Apr 30 2005, 04:22 PM
hmm i was wondering how people paint thier skin.

i don't paint my skin. I paint models skin, but not my own :P

It varies on what I feel like doing. Since Chaos dudes don't have alot of flesh, I can change is up alot.
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I go all out, and spend way too much time so don't mind the uber amounts of steps I'm about to write just on painting skin. *Grins*

1st-Chaos Blackundercoat
2nd-Vermin Brown
3rd-Elf Flesh
4th-Chestnut Ink Wash
5th-Elf Flesh[I know you may think the second elf flesh doens't really make a difference, but it does, as I go really heavy with my ink washes]
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warmaster
Apr 30 2005, 04:22 PM
hmm i was wondering how people paint thier skin.

i don't paint my skin. I paint models skin, but not my own :P

I usually paint my skin, though if I aim right I could get some on the model too.

One tip with skin painting as the above posts suggest is use a brown or black base, with a darker skintone in successive layers highlighted with a lighter skintone. Which browns and skintones is really up to you. Do what Ratter suggested to match colours, the idea is to stick the paint on a transparent plastic and hold it over the semi-painted model to see if it matches.
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Scorched Brown, Scorched Brown/ dwarf flesh, dwarf flesh, dwarf flesh/elf flesh and last elf flesh.
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When I bother painting rats to a decent standard, I paint the feet bronzed flesh, flesh wash, elf flesh in raised areas and then paint the toenails.
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Well i guess i am just odd...lol.
My rats skin color is:
Basecoat: Shadowgrey
First layer: Shadowgrey-elf flesh(i guess a 1:1 ratio)
Second Layer: Same colors but a 1:2 ratio
Third and final layer/highlight, same 2 colors but now a 1:3 ratio

My ratio's are aproximates as i just mix till i get the color and paint each one individually, thank goodness the flesh is just the hands, feet, tails, ears, and face on the majority of the rats, otherwise it would take me forever.
My idea is to have a more sickly looking skin tone on my rats.
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The simpelests aproach that looks good is dwarfflesh on a chaosblack undercoat.
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