"Speed Painting African Skin" Topic

I've got a lot of Beja that I need to paint. In order to have any chance of doing this within the next few years I needed to find a way in which I can skimp on my usual painting method and start churning them out.

I pretty much decided to go for a base coat, a wash and two highlights, one of which is applied very sparingly; this is a vast improvement in terms of speed when compared to my usual multi layering method! I think that in total there were not more than about four hours spent painting these up.

You can read about my desperation to get them painted, the method employed as well as seeing many more pics on my Just Add Water blog here:

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Here's a few tasters:

Cheers,
Darrell.

Just Add Water Painting and Wargaming Blog:
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Illustrated technique – most welcome! And good outcomes as well.

When I do my Zulu I do a three phase paintjob.
Dark brown (GW Rhinox Hide)
Highlight with 50/50 Rhinox hide/Doombull Brown
Highlight with Doombull Browm

Seems to work OK.

As the laziest person here,I do a "one phase" paint job: dark brown dry brush over flat black primer.
I've even sold some from time to time, so I guess they're OK.

They look great.

I think that I am even lazier. I spray undercoat black, spray brown then use AGRAX EARTHSHADE wash once all the details have been painted. This is for my Zulu Regiments and will do a better job on characters.

Thanks guys for all the comments and recipe's.

@Brtian and D A THB- Do you have any pics of the results you have managed to get lease- feel free to post on this thread- any technique for speeding up the process would be most welcome?

Cheers,
Darrell.

Just Add Water Painting and Wargaming Blog:
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La Journee HYW Warfare- Painting & Wargaming Blog:
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Gewalthaufen- Late C15 to Early Renaissance Blog:
gewalthaufen.blogspot.co.uk

The close-up of the figure holding his spear horizontally just above waist level looks quite threatening, in a sort of "This is what id would look like if one was attacking me" fashion.

Grelber

'As the laziest person here,I do a "one phase" paint job: dark brown dry brush over flat black primer.
I've even sold some from time to time, so I guess they're OK.'

Pretty much my system.

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I always use a Humbrol US tan coat, double washed with GW Agrax Earthshade
This is one unit of NNC I did recently…

Thanks guys….

Here's some I painted 'properly earlier:

Darrell.

Just Add Water Painting and Wargaming Blog:
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La Journee HYW Warfare- Painting & Wargaming Blog:
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Gewalthaufen- Late C15 to Early Renaissance Blog:
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Those are very nice!

Darrell,

I paint mine as wet-into-wet blends – you still get the subtle tonal range but it's a really quick way to work as you can't hang about. Three colours on the palette and away you go – black, dark brown and light brown. I paint as much of the rest as I can as wet-into-wet using two colours – brown and sand. The only thing that I don't think can be skimped is the clothing – it needs some of the creases and folds highlighting.

I paint all mine over white undercoat but that's down to personal taste.

Cheers Timmo. I've got it all sorted. Nice, quick and effective :>)

Darrell.

Just Add Water Painting and Wargaming Blog:
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La Journee HYW Warfare- Painting & Wargaming Blog:
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Gewalthaufen- Late C15 to Early Renaissance Blog:
gewalthaufen.blogspot.co.uk