Painting Dark skin

[Spellscape]

Hi all

Never painted dark skin before - can someone give tips on this using GW paints only?

[Hinton]

GW paints? Sorry, can't help you there.

Using Reaper paints, though, I might be able to. I use Earth Brown for the basecoat, Muddy Brown for the shadows, Muddy Brown/Blackened Brown (50/50) for the darkest shadows, Leather Brown for the highlights and Leather Brown/Leather White (50/50) for the extreme highlights.

I thought I once saw a color equivalencies chart somewhere, but I can't remember where off-hand.

[goblyn13]

Not a direct conversion, but Vallejo has a color equivalency chart, that has Reaper to Vallejo to Citadel, its not 100% up to date as they haven't including the foundation paints.

http://www.ttfxmedia.com/vallejo/cgi-bin/_modelis_info.asp?p1=ing&p2=gamecolor&p3=1#gamecolorinfo

And if you want it in a nice printable material:

http://89.207.232.142/~portald/vallejo/documentacion/CatalogoModelismoEquivalencias.pdf

[pete-h]

I used the following recipe on - http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/pete--h/Security-complete1.jpg-:

Base coat of scorched brown, 1st highlight layer 1/2 scorched brown - 1/2 dark flesh. Then a layer of pure dark flesh, followed by a 1/2 dark flesh - 1/2 dwarf flesh. This mix then had several additions of bleached bone added to raise it up. A brown ink glaze was then finally added over the top.

Hope that helps.

[gi6ers]

try www.jenova.dk she's got a few recipes on thier using GW paints