Multiple Mortem et Gloriam Indian Armies

Colours on these armies are important. I have a vision of  brightly coloured figures. To achieve this I am going to break the colours down into Three categories. Skintones/Animal Hides, Cloth and Weapons and Armour.

Note: I will prime all the miniatures with the following process

• Full Prime with Chaos Black from Citedel spray
• A Zenith from the sides of a grey primer spray
• A Zenith from the top with Citedel Wraith Bone spray

The vast majority of the figures I will be painting have a lot of flesh areas. This means getting to grip with the skin tones of the Indian sub continent.

Usually when looking as Indian Armies they are all painted with a darker skin tone. However, after some research and speaking to Indian friends. I can say that the skin tones of the people of India range from very pale through to dark tones. This gives me a variety of choices and some interesting experiments to be done.

Having looked through my range of paints I have chosen to work with a combination of Vallejo and Citedel Contrast paints. for thsi process. These are:

• Vallejo Model Air – Golden Brown – (71.032)
• Vallejo Model Color – Green Brown – (70.879)
• Vallejo Model Air – Light Brown – (71.027)
• Vallejo Game Air – Bronze Fleshtone (72.736)
• Vallejo Game Air – Barbartian Flesh (72.771)
• Vallejo Model Color – Pale Sand (70.837)
• Citedel Contrast – Guilliman Flesh
• Citedel Contrast – Darkoath Flesh
• Citedel Contrast – Fyreslayer Flesh
• Citedel Contrast – Aggaros Dunes

The steps I will be using is to select one of the Vallejo colours as a base coat. Then I will wash it with one of the contrast paints and the highlight with the chosen base coat then another highlight with base coat mixed with a touch of pale sand.

The good thing about this process is that I can mix an match the base coat with the contrast washes and even the highlight colours. this will enable me to get a wide range of skin tones throughtout my army. I can also go for some of the darker washes such as Contrast Gore Gruntha Fure or Wyldwood to achieve darker skin tone.

Note: Remeber that the soles of the feet tend to be lighter than the body skin tone.

TIP: I always use a wet pallet to thin my paints a bit, and by working with differently thinned paints will also enable you to get a different shade of skin tone.