Hi

I’m tying to start painting again after never really starting with it :). I thought I’d start with practicing on two green army men. I’ve searched for a paint scheme and applied it. All Vallejo colours except for the flesh which is Army Painter Tanned flesh. The choice for the tanned flesh comes from a tutorial Warlord Games offers. In that tutorial they use AP TF as base coat, apply quickshade, then highlight again with AP TF and a final highlight with Vallejo basic fleshtone.

Yesterday I tried applying a highlight of Vallejo basic fleshtone after applying the quickshade. I tried it on the nose, ears   and knuckles but the contrast was just too big. Almost like a white nose on a dark background. I immediately went over it with AP TF to “save” what I already done. I noticed that there was little to no colour difference between the AP TF that had a coat of quickshade and the new layer I applied. I left one of the ears with the basic fleshtone layer to see the result and ask for advice.

I must say it looks better now its dry compared to when I was applying it.The cheecks had a layer of basic fleshtone which I.ve now covered again with TF. If you compare it with the back of the head you can see that there’s no difference. The ear still has the basic fleshtone.

Should I just try again with the basic skintone on the nose and knuckles and wait for it to dry, should I mix some white with the tanned flesh or something else?

I gave up applying any other highlights on the uniform.

Here are the two before I tried highlighting: