Topic: Help with flesh

[Doomduck1988]

I'm starting my empire project with a warrior priest and need some help. Iv never painted human flesh before (weird I know) all my other army's are beast men, orcs, and daemons. I started with dwarf flesh, dry brush elf flesh, wash ogryn flesh, high light elf/bleach bone mix and he just looks like he has a bad tan. Can any one help?

[Brad]

I've recently started doing all my (Caucasian) human flesh with the foundation flesh colour... erm... (quickly looks at the pot) Tallarn Flesh, wash with Ogryn flesh.  Optionally highlight with Elf flesh.

Make sure you shake the Ogryn flesh well, and I mean really well.

[Delthos]

If you aren't opposed to using a different brand of paint, Reaper's Tanned Flesh triad is excellent. It has a shade, midtone, and highlight color, which dispite the name doesn't give the super tan look which your method is giving you.

[mr chumley warner]

the best combi i have come to love is:

base : tallarn flash,

washes: gryphon + babac,

washes: stage 2 red and gryphon,

blend : dwarf flesh , elf flesh

[NörgelNöcker]

Hi there,

I paint my skin in this way:

Ground: Tallarn Flesh (Foundation)

Wash: Ogryn Flesh

Highlights: Mixture 50%Dwarf Flesh 50%Elf Flesh

Hope I could help you!

[stretch_135]

My favourite recipe:

Bestial Brown->Dwarf Flesh->Bronzed Flesh->Very light Elf Flesh (essentially enough to take away the really tan look from the Bronzed Flesh).

For the eyes:

Bleached Bone->Skull White->Very fine black line for pupil.

[Timbor]

I recently tried the wargames foundry flesh pallette - it comes with 3 tones (base, mid, highlight).  I would paint the base and midtone, wash with ogryn flesh, then midtone again and highlight.  I really like the result.

[Maza]

This is my basic procedure:

Basecoat: Tallarn flesh + bleached bone
Wash: Ogryn flesh
Highlights: Tallarn flesh + bleached bone

I experiment a lot, though, so I seldom stick exactly to that. Lately I have been trying to dilute the wash, with sepia and water. No perfect solution yet. 

[cjp]

I did a comparisson of ~10 flesh recipes with visual examples here, hopefully it might help:


http://madponies.net/flesh.html

[Darknight]

I like Bestial Brown basecoat, highlighted up by mixing white into it. Bestial Brown has a lot of red in it, which the white brings out to a nice flesh tone. Works really well.

[Brad]

Here's another page of flesh recipes.

http://www.jenova.dk/Skintones.htm

[Sir Bone]

Try and check this topic: http://warhammer-empire.com/theforum/index.php?topic=32309.75.
Helped me a lot

[Alarick]

Hola!
 Mix dwarf flesh with dark brown and paint the flesh parts. Next, when the paint is dry, wash the mini with flesh ink or ogrin flesh wash. Let it dry and applies dry brush with dwarf flesh. Again, wash the mini with ogrin flesh wash and let it dry. Last, applies dry brush with a mix of dwarf flesh and elf flesh (50-50).
 Saludos y suerte con sus dados.

[Alleton]

If you aren't opposed to using a different brand of paint, Reaper's Tanned Flesh triad is excellent. It has a shade, midtone, and highlight color, which dispite the name doesn't give the super tan look which your method is giving you.

I'll second that. I bought the Reaper fair skin triad, and it has helped immeasurably.