"Berserker and saxon charging" Topic

A Small Vignette I made.
Not that happy with the paint job, I need to get a better skincolor paint

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The actual colour of most Caucasian skin is far too white and pasty to look good on a model.

Or on most of us in real life, actually :)

Try a thin coat of GW Flesh Wash over the skin and see if it looks better.

Mostly naked caucasians are best painted in three layers: a dark undercoat (Dwarf Flesh or something), a drybrush with Elf flesh and a third subtle one with Elf Flesh/white.

This is a quick and relatively easy method that gets nice results.

I'll put my money on the Saxon.

Me too :)

Another way to do quick skin is to pick a medium ("outdoors") tone and then sepia ink wash it. To highlight, just drybrush very lightly with the original skin tone, or one a couple shades lighter.

One other comment on the piccies: from their obvious detail, it looks like your brushwork might be a mite too dry/thick. Try making the paint thinner; that way you don't fight to "move" it to the edges, it just flows….

I find a white under coat, then use Windsor and Newton Acrylics, Titanium white and Burnt Seinna. Mix the colors on a plate, you can range the color from white white guy,to a tanned warriour with this basic.

The goal is to mix the paints with just enough water to make it flow over the white base coat, which creates hightlights and shandows with just one coat, then go over with a wash of Burnt Seinna so create the shadows. This method works best for 15mm and smaller figures.
William