3 Colours Up: Painting A Bamaka Warrior – Part One
September 29, 2016 by elromanozo
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Great stuff so far! I’ve gotta get some of that idrian flesh. I’ve got a whole company of Guardsmen that I’d like to have varied skin tones. I’ve been making my own by mixing a chocolate brown and some peachy flesh tones and then using a black wash over it.
Also I would never have thought to use coal black on this mini. You’re the man, Romain!
Thanks a lot !
I suggest you use Chocolate Brown instead of Idrian Flesh… experiment by mixing chocolate brown with Khaki (or any beige, or Deck Tan), but just a trace. If it’s not dark enough, add a darker brown, or some Hull Red (or some primary red + black).
I’ve obtained surprisingly good results on black fleshtones and mutant fleshtones using different browns with tracs of grey (neutral grey, for example, or sombre grey, or even oxford blue).
Do not presume that certain colours just “won’t work” together : experiment with everything ! 🙂
great tips, love to see more varied skin tones on the tabletop. thanks!
nice to see the continuation of skin tones series. Darker skin tones are definitely something I need to try at some stage.
thanks for the explanation of using green to subdue the red in the flesh tones.
I noticed the use of maroon for the deepest shadows in the scale75 flesh tone set,
they have a green/brown in a lighter colour. i’m going to take a guess I should uses it as a tint to achieve a similar effect.
thanks as always for my Friday night chillout
Thanks for your viewership !
Well, the skintones series was pretty much over (how many human skintones can you stereotype, really ? We’re only missing orks and such…) but I plan on not restraining full tutorials to “white”, that’s for sure.
The Scale 75 range is indeed gorgeous, but I’d stick to the darker tones. Still, it’s worth experimenting ! One of these days I’ll experiment with the new Army Painter ones…
Well dun once again,.
I have the years but not the ability lol. Love watching your way of painting.
So water downed paint leaves less brush strokes, but when i try watering down. Its either still too solid a colour or leaves pigment like a very very fine sand, giving pimples on my figures face or arms and legs. What im i doing wrong, any idea.As it looks grate on my pallet and on my brush but as ive said not on the figure.
Thanks ! 🙂 On watering down the paint : My paint wasn’t flowy enough, and left texture on the miniature, so I diluted it. Brush strokes will appear for a lot of reasons, including not diluting enough, diluting too much, not being careful applying the paint, weather, sudden metor showers and divine intervention… In other words : shit happens, and it happens to the best of us. The best you can do is to minimize it, and paint several coats with differently angled strokes so that the end result is solid, and masks the strokes. That’s why I’d rather have… Read more »
Sorry to write back to you so late.
Im so amazed you new the kind of paints I’ve been using, (yes it would of been nice of me to give you a heads up on them).
Thanks again for your help and pointing me in the right direction (again) thanks for your helping tips and watching you work, my painting has came on leaps and bounds.
As you say if I keep doing it, it gets better and its always better to try.
Thanks…
an interesting figure to paint Romain.