"Painting Faces in 6mm" Topic

How much effort do you put into painting faces in 6mm scale? Just a basecoat of flesh color, or do you wash and highlight?

I usually just blob on some flesh, sometimes I do a brown wash too. Some figures (Baccus) warrant more effort as they have more detail but I'm generally an H&R/Irregular guy.

Well, I try the wash and highlight, but I don't know how effective it is. Still, from 3 feet away it at least shows if I have based the figure the right way up.

Flesh with "the dip."

Flesh + dip (occasionally + a highlighting dab)

Phil

They have faces?

Someone had to say it. Just a blob of flesh for me.

Flesh paint and wash.

Faces? Just look like blobs to me. :)

Flesh + dip, or perhaps (if I ever master the technique) black undercoat and flesh drybrush.

Doug

Basecoat medium brown, highlight flesh.

Normally just base colour.
Brownish ink wash then highlight the nose and cheeks.

The eyes are a real !@#$% but I don't have any problem with the rest of it.

No, seriously, I paint it flesh.

At three feet you can't even see the rifles usually, let alone the faces. Life is too short.

" let alone the faces "

I find it is things like hands and faces, shiny bayonets etc which actually bring the figures to life in the smaller scales.

I prime black and paint the nose, chin, and cheeks in a total of four strokes. With the black left between the strokes, you even have a simulated mustache.

Dale

I just blob on flesh

More recently I have added "the dip"

I do like Dale's idea

I like to blob on the face with a lighter brown live Vallejo's "Brown Rose" then go back with a lighter flesh and paint a "T" for the forehead (if visible) and nose and dot in the cheeks and chin. It is relatively fast and effective.

Base color + wash. A touch of highlight. If the sculpts are decent, it seems to work OK.

I notice that more rich colors seem to help 6mm come to life more than larger scale, so flesh colors that too strong for a 25mm figure might look great on a 6mm.

Depends if painting actual 6mm figures (H&R, Irregular or Scotia) then simple flesh dot. For larger Baccus flesh undercoat and brown ink wash to show the detail.
Adler figures have 15mm heads anyway so they get a full paint/wash/highlight.

What RobH said…. Although a two layer of chestnut brown followed by flesh color works too.

I would say Adler are 10mm heads by the by.

Baccus are really 8mm figures.

Usually just a basecoat, sometimes a wash.

Regards

Base coat and wash.

One some alien figures I have added dots for eyes but they are bigger than humans…

Only done a few 6mm ACW union infantry so far – flesh colour followed by a raw/burnt umber wash

I'm generally an H&R/Irregular guy

More fibre is called for.

A dab of Humbrol flesh is adequate for me.

LOL, I did wonder about that as I typed it.

Strangely for 2mm I find an inkwash is almost essential to bring out the flesh whereas for 6mm a simple flesh blob is often sufficient. The smaller you go the more exaggerated the colour differences need to be.

I just dip the brush where the face and hands go, at 3 feet it is the color being there that matters. (doesn't even have to be exactly where it "should" be)

Dab of flesh paint, and a wash of flesh ink to darken the recesses. The only time I'd go further is on a command stand where the figs might come under closer inspection.

Flesh and dip all the way. Unless I am bored or get a bug up my butt and start highlighting and doing the eyes etc. Man, those days reeeeeealy slow my progress down.

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Black prime, white drybrush (whole figure), flesh and other colors, high gloss coat, miracle wash, low gloss finish.

GQG – OMG

Blob of flesh. Job done.

There is the dot method – nose, cheeks and chins.
It is suprising how similar a blob and W&N wash looks with less effort.
… and at wargaming distance does it really matter.

PS. I like paiting facial hair and stuff on my models, why – well because I can and I know they have been painted like that. Waste of time – probably.

base, wash and dot…

I make goggle eyes in28mm… how much detail do you think I can put into 6mm.

The sculpted detail is quite amazing on 6mm so realy it is down to how much you want/are able to do. I use to do seperate iris colours in 28mm – not attempted that in 6mm… yet… lol