"Negro skin painting suggestions" Topic

I purchased a bunch of the Zulu minis from Warlord games. Does anyone have any suggestions on painting flesh for these amazing minis? Your recomendations are appreciated.

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Nikki

This has helped me a lot:

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For Zulus I use Chocolate Brown.

Back in the Earlies, there were some GenCon East conventions held in the Philadelpia area.
I won a Best Painted Army award for my Minifigs and Ral Partha Zulus.
So, being a natural braggart, I was hanging around them before I packed them up to take home. (They still soldier on, elderly gentlemen that they are…)
An African American gentleman stopped by to admire them, and we had a nice conversation.
It suddenly occurred to me that I hoped he would not ask me what paints I used. If he had, I would have had to tell him that I used, err, umm, Armoury's Nubian Flesh, and ahhh, ahhh, washed it with, err, umm, Polly S Ogre Dark Brown.
Fortunately for my PC well being, he did not ask.

Today, neither paint is available. Sadly.

To match that, though, I would prime white, use a craft paint chocolate or some other shade, and use The Dip, Minwax Tudor Satin, to shade.

Prime with a chocolate brown spray paint and save some time. You can then use lighter shades of brown to highlight, some variation in skin tones looks realistic, IMHO.

I use charcoal black, then chocolate brown, then a lighter color to hightlight. You can skip the black undercoat of course. I suggest tyring both ways and see which you prefer.

I use Vallejo Dark Fleshtone followed by a "magic wash" of Ceramicoat Walnut. After the wash dries I go back with lightly diluted Dark Fleshtone and pick out the higher areas leaving some of the wash showing. I then mix a little Americana Milk Chocolate into the diluted dark fleshtone and hit all the highest areas.

I prime with an Umber craft paint, then GW Scorched Earth, then GW Dark Flesh highlights.

I use a very dark base of brown then continue to dry brush lighter till I find the color I like

I paint overall with raw umber and the dry brush with raw sienna. Of it get's too light, another raw umber wash. I use Liquitex tube acrylics and I've been very happy with results.

I've been using a Coat d'Arms paint entitled "Negro" applied over black spray primed Zulus. Paint the underside of the feet a lighter color (a yellowish/brown seems about right) and then ink with a brown/black mixture. The effect is very fast and seems pretty good. I have tried adding a drop or two of blue ink to the brown/black combo and that works nicely, but avoid the non-skin as it looks "odd".

The Coat d'Arms I got from Scale Creep and it is a great color. I originally used it for the base of Minotaur horns and it is a color that is wondeful for that too! I think the code number is CDA216 for "Negro".

Hope this helps.

Erik

I have base-coated in GW Dark Flesh then highlighted with Vermin Brown, but this might be a little light-skinned for Zulus

J Womack's link is spot on and what I have used often.
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James Mattes

I used to use GW Scorched Brown highlighted with Dark flesh for 'generic African', but who knows what the corresponding colors are these days!

Perry site has an article regarding African skin.

J Womack's link is spot on and what I have used often.

Reaper makes a dark skin triad that works well.

Elaine

J Womack,

Thanks for that link – useful and now bookmarked.

EMW