Classical Indians for MEG
Dark Skin Tone with Contrast Paints for 15mm
Skintone can be awkward to think about. The people of India have many skin tones and they are all great. I am no expert in skin pigments, or the history of India, and do not claim what I came up with is ideal or even correct, but it works for me. Please do not interpret this as me telling the many wonderful peoples of India what color they should be.
I wanted a contrast paint option as I had potentially many hundreds of figures to paint and a lot of skin on these guys. I had done some dark tones on 28mm figures for Blood and plunder before by layering diluted Wyldwood over the other flesh tones, but for this project, again driven by the numbers I needed to paint, I wanted a one coat solution.
This is my current formula:
2 parts Darkorath Flesh
2 parts Fyreslayer Flesh
1 part Wyldwood
I mixed up a batch of this in a little dropper bottle for ease of use and some consistency. Sometimes I thin this just a little with contrast medium.
Small dropper bottle from Army Painter which I use to store my mixture. Not particularly interesting perhaps, but it seemed like it deserved a photo.
Here is a partially done mini with the contrast mixture.
Some spear/javelin troops in the process of being based. 
Some Skirmish archers pretty much complete.
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