"How to Paint Skraelings" Topic

I am looking to paint some 28mm Skraelings for Saga and I want them to be of the darker/redish skin type. Has anyone painted Skraelings? What colour(s) did you use, or what would your recommend?

Mark

I'd start with a light red-brown or ruddy flesh base and wash with brown ink or a dark brown paint, then lightly highlight in a lighter ruddy flesh tone. May take experimenting with a few figures before you hit upon the exact paints and tones that work for you.

I haven't painted Skraelings per se, but I have painted my share of Apaches (who are darker complected, by and large, than the eastern tribes, but there it is).

Foundry have quite a good 'native american flesh' set (120 a,b and c).

I second the Foundry flesh sets, very useful for non-caucasian skin tones.

I use Vallejo Saddle Brown for Native Americans.

I'll have to try the Foundry paints, but my own cheap formula for Northeastern Indians uses an initial coat of craft paint 'burnt sienna', followed by Howard Hues 'Oriental Flesh', finally highlighted with Delta Ceramcoat 'Bamboo'. I'm not sure of how it would look with 28mm figures, but looks great on 15mm.

after watching The Eagle maybe that blue look would be cool even if not historically acurate

Just to be annoying, I'll mention that the native people of Newfoundland, the Beothuks, are recorded as having very light skin (because it's impossible to get a suntan there) BUT to have covered themselves with lashings of red ochre.

Allegedly, that's where the phrase 'Red indian' originated. The Beothuks were lucky enough to meet Europeans (not the Norse, but English and French fishermen) in the C16th.

But that didn't work out for them, and the last Beothuk died, erm, around 1830 IIRC.

I have painted some Skraeling recently.

MJS is correct in that the Beothuks were relatively fair skinned according to some 19th century writers who describe the last Beothuk.

I used GW Tallarn Flesh.

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John