Flesh Tone Formulas/Mixes

[blackwulf]

Hello-I was just wondering if any of you might have a link to any websites that have paint formulas/Mixes for different types of flesh tones. The other option is if any of you have some nice paint mixture formulas you might share with me. Anime skin tone would also be nice since I have a few I need to build. I've posted a similar message on armorama and gotten a couple of responses and then remembered this nice site and thought that this site would have more people who actually deal with this issue. I have gathered enough info to have a good idea of the paint colors but I would like to see the colors along with mix ratios. I understand that all colors need "tweaked" but since I am going to try airbrushing in the near future, I was just hoping someone had written down their mix ratios for others to try. Thanks in advance for any help in regards to this subject.

P.S. I have read quite a few articles that suggest white primer for figures and then airbrushing the base color and other flesh highlights first. Is this the best overall method or would it be better to used thinned enamels on top of the base airbrush color since enamels are easier to blend together. I was considering painting the figure mainly in acrylics(Vallejo) and then highlighting/dry brushing with enamels. Any advice on this would be appreciated. I hate to sound like a total newbie but figures are new to me and I just need a few pushes in the right direction. ;D

[jkiker]

Hey BW,

I have a lot of modeling experience, but like you I am pretty new to figure modeling. Lucky for me I have a couple of buds in my local club who are terrific figure guys. In talking with them about my Goddess project, they both prefer doing a white undercoat/primer and then using thin, thin solvent-based paint in an airbrush for the big areas, especially skin. One of them tells me that many figure guys use (I think) burnt siena in the shadows and creases of skin right on top of the primer coat, then using the thin main skin tone over that. If done with very thin paint you can build up the main shade and vary it over the darker creases.

Note however that for those guys, this does not substitute for the most common approach- main color first, then shadows usually in washes, and highlights done with drybrushing. It is just a shortcoat that I am going to try.

I cannot suggest a specific mix as a starting point for flesh; the experts have many variations. One thing I do know is that Model Master makes a series of skin colors in both enamel and acrylic. In my local shop it's in a special row at the top of the display rack. They might make a good starting place. Another thing I do a lot is mix something up and spray some on scrap plactic and see how it turns out. The kit/figure is not a place I like to experiment on! But I have saved myself many times by practicing on scrap first.

Hope this helps, Jim

[Phantom Major]

well, i'm not sure what medium you use too paint with but you might want too check out the Model Mania Video's or DVD's. David Fisher emparts quite a lot of very useful knowledge on those films and i think you can get the films from most retail outlets or online stores.

hope this helps

[figurator]

I dont really have a formula I go by either. I do usually use a white primer, sometimes grey depending on the figure. Sometimes I'll even use black, usually on something like an orc or dwarf or something like that. I always add variations to my base colors as well, maybe a hint of green this time or red, or even a greyish tint. playiga round with your colors usually gets better results I think.

[drhall]

Try this one.

www.heycomputer.com/rsrc/skin.htm

;D Dave Hall

[Model Citizen]

I use MP Paints. They have 2 colours called tanned Flesh and Pale Flesh. I find that I can coat the skin in pale flesh first, then when dry paint pale and tanned at the same time on the model mixing it together in the same way you would with oil colours.. When finished I airbrush white highlights.