"Best Flesh Tone Paint?" Topic

What is your 'go to' paint for generic Caucasian flesh tones? Specific brand and paint name, please.

Craftsmart coral.

Ceramcoat Medium Flesh.

Either GW Cadian fleshtone or Tamiya Flat Flesh (I buy from two local hobby stores, one of which stocks GW and one Tamiya)

I pretty much always use a sepia wash over the flesh

Folk Art "Sunflower". One caveat, though: I apply The Dip, so the Sunflower does darken, overall, with the dark washing. I use Minwax Polyshades Urethane Stain, Royal Walnut color.

Rememeber: if you apply a dark wash, you need to apply a "flesh" color perhaps two shades lighter than what you want the finished color to be… Cheers, Bill!

Coat d'Arms Tanned Flesh

Tamiya Flat Flesh for now.

Have some Gaeseti that I painted Testors Flat Light Tan. A bit toasty, but then when the pale shinned northerners run around au naturel in the Sun…

Will be trying some craft paint flesh when the tamiya runs out.

The Army Painter "War Paints" Kobold Skin with Quickshade "Flesh Wash" highlighted with Corpse Pale

I usually use Folk Arts "Cappuccino" for basic Caucasian skin, but sometimes go with Ral Partha/Iron Wind Metals "leather" or Vallejo Model Colors "light brown" depending on ethnicity.

Vallejo Model Color Sunny Flesh or skin tone 70845

There is no "Best" Caucasian flesh paint but a lot of good ones. I like to have a good number of different ones to hand and they all get used.

Paints mark as flesh are the largest group on my paint table.

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I start with brick red and work up towards a cream highlight.
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Vallejo Face painting set

Flesh – Coat D'arms

Foundry Expert Flesh

Army Painter Barbarian Flesh for Mediterranean types, and AP Elven Flesh for Northern Europeans. AP Flesh Wash for shading both.

My go to is a blend of Vallejo's Ivory and tan earth.

Foundry expert flesh, A-F mixed with grey for a more natural tone, a mid grey for A and B and a light grey for C-F

Reaper Tanned Flesh

Ceramcoat Flesh Tone

Derivan Tobruk Brown. And it is no longer made and my bottle keeps getting lighter and lighter. sniff

Thanks for that tip, @Gunfreak, I'm going to try that out.

Correction:

Army Painter Centaur Skin with AP Flesh Wash for Northern Europeans;

AP Barbarian Flesh with Flesh Wash for Southern Europeans and Mediterranean Islanders;

AP Tanned Flesh with Soft Tone Wash for Numidians and other North Africans.

Windsor and Newton acrylic. Burnt Sienna and white.

Craftsmart Coral.

I have been using Testor's 'Warm Skin Tone' as it is pretty light so a wash over it works well (ie Army Painter skin tone or Agrax earthshade – anything works as the Testor's is quite light and also has pink to it so a regular wash/dip works).

That said, I've been on a continuous journey to find a nice covering flesh tone (P3, Vallejo, Testors, Gunze Sangyo, etc, etc, etc and I haven't found one I really like – I would prefer a well covering colour, 1 coat, that is not too thick so I do not have to apply multiple coats).

With JimDuncanUK, mix your own. All fleshtones, really … it's best if they don't all match.

Cd'A flesh with Citadel Reikland flesh wash. Use on true 15mm sized figures