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Hi,

I'm going to go through painting some faces step by step. I am using Citadel/gamesworkshop paints for this.
I'm using one standard size Gamesworkshop brush for the whole process. I'm not a fan of Gamesworkshop but their brushes are good quality. Vallego brushes suck, waste of money as too soft.

I have primed the resin model with matt grey primer.

Paints used for flesh tones as follows :

Dark Flesh
Tanned flesh Base coat
Dwarf flesh 1st highlight
Dwarf flesh/Elf Flesh 1:1 mix
Elf Flesh

I like to drill up through neck, insert half a coctail stick,(blunt end), and stick pointy end in a champagne cork. (MUST BE A GOOD VINTAGE)

Clean water to wash your brush essential.

Start with a base of tanned flesh. Thin your paint. Two or even three coats of thinned paint. Get a nice even base. If I want to work faster I use a hairdryer on light heat. (It's the only use I have for a hairdryer).





Apply stage 1 highlight of dwarf flesh. I start with the nose, forehead, jawline chin upper lip ears neck. Leave some shade in in wrinkles around mouth and under eyes and upper neck below chin.

Slight shading of extremely thinned Dark flesh. Just in the cracks or wherever you think you need shading.





Next highlight is a 50/50 mix dwarf flesh elf flesh.





Next elf flesh and if you want to give your figures a tired unhealthy complexion a further highlight, small amount 50/50 mix of elf flesh and bleached bone.



EYES

Paint full eye black.





A white dot either corner of the eye.





LIPS (or should I say lip)

Important! ONLY PAINT LOWER LIP. Mix a little red shade with dark flesh or dwarf flesh. Not too red. Look at your own lips.
ONLY PAINT LOWER LIP

I do not do eye brows unless subject has extremely prominent eyebrows. You really do not need them.

Painting figures for winter? Give him a slightly red nose as if he has a cold. Similar to lips but well thinned. Not like a clown.

Unshaven
Thinned wash of dwarf flesh with some grey or black.







Hope this helps.

EXCELLENT!! Just what we needed. Great tips!
Don't stop..

This gives me the confidence to paint my 120mm Kirin figures, thanks John you have made my build complete as now my tanks will have crews, cheers Blake

Good technique, thanks for tips

Amazing work!

Would you mind sharing your technique for the clothing and gear please? Your work is amazing, thanks for the tips. Shotgun

Hi shotgun, did some stuff already on painting camo uniforms. Separate post in the same category. If you cannot find it let me know. Have some more photos of some new projects to add soon.

Thanks for the reply I will look for it. Great work. Shotgun

Hi shotgun, the other post was titled painting crew and support troops step by step. Hope you can find it by that. I know it should be possible to post a link but I have no idea how to do it.

John just copy the web address of that page from the address bar and paste in you post like so;
http://www.rctankwarfare.co.uk/forums/v ... 151&t=6165" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (I think thats the page you meant)
Cheers, Dave