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Good day, Dakka-Dakka.
Ive looked throught your forum, articles and tutorials, but i cant understand- how to paint subj.
Im trying to make necro-skin on my Nurgle CSM army (like grey/yellow/purple skin) but nothing well goes from my brushes.
If someone have opportunity to help me with it- ill be really glad And if your help will be with photo of painting process... d`oh... i dont know how ill be really gratitude for it.

If you want a greyish purple look you can do iteasily with a few washes. Just paint the model with a base coat of a light cream colour (dheneb stone, kommando khaki, doesn't really matter). Then give them a heavy wash with a purple wash, I made my own from watered down warlock purple.

Once this has dried give it a heavy wash with badab black. At this stage the colours will be right but the overall effect won't look great.

Finally highlight all the raised areas with rotting flesh. The more you highlight the paler the skin will look. This stage adds a nice green tinge.

Finally just pick out any details

I'll try and find some photos of the end result to put up.

thank you, 4M2A, but ive forgot to explain my way of painting nurgles.
1. white basecoat
2. bubonic brown main color
3. than i aplly thekka green and gryphonne sepia washes.
So armor of my CSM is little green, little brown and im looking for some bloody look of skin.
Ive tried to paint in this way: Elf flesh, levi purple wash and then Brown Indian ink (for bloody gloss). But it look... hm... unnatural i think. Yes- its bright and 'juicy' but it dont look like skin.
In your adwise, im afraid, colors will be merged on mini.

But how to paint it greysh or... hm... red...
Its still hard to me

I use rotting flesh or palid flesh (which you can't buy any more but use vallejo pale flesh from the game colour range).
Use very thin washes and don't always cover all the flesh - eg use reds arround pustules, purple arround the eyes, etc.
Feather out the damp edges of the wash and don't use a wash just once - many thin layers is the key.


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mr Bubber: as i can see, you use rotting as basecoat and then you wash it with red, orange and purple paints/washes?
Is it correct to mix wash with water for thinner layer?

I like to use Gretchin green for Nurglish skin, then add Bleached bone to it for highlights. After that, perhaps Gryphonne sepia or devlan mud.

sorry, that was suposed to be a new topic

yeah, it really depends on what kind of rotten flesh you're going for. Pussy will have more white, while infected will be more red.

For my own decapitated head on a strap I painted it codex grey with highlights of rotting flesh (that pastel green color GW makes), with a little bit of bleached bone highlighting that, with some brown put pack in to simulate blood and bruising:

Did you just say about how to paint pussy I just basically drown the mini is thinned down washes, makes it fairly shiny and sickly looking, work your way up from darker to lighter. There is tutorial on GW site somewhere, hang one, let me see if I can finid it


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Damn, I cant remember where Is aw it, but this prinicple should work in fairly similar way with flesh:
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=cat440167a&pageMode=multi&categoryId=400029§ion=&pIndex=13&aId=1200005&start=14

Sorry I couldnt have been of more help

Oh, lol. No, I wasn't talking about infected pussy, I was referring to infection, or pus-ey.

/me hands Ailaros a shovel so that he can keep on digging

Yawg wrote:mr Bubber: as i can see, you use rotting as basecoat and then you wash it with red, orange and purple paints/washes?
Is it correct to mix wash with water for thinner layer?

It was palid flesh for the base colour but the rest is correct.
I actually used oils for some of the washes but normal GW washes work too.

Easiest way to make rotting/decaying flesh?

A 25/75 mix of Dheneb Stone and Codex Grey.

From there, you just want to use heavily watered down washes(specifically Purple and Blues) to really add to how the flesh looks.

Thanks all!
Tonight ill try painting flesh in your method and app some photos of my process.
*Here some photos of my possesed marines. They were given to be primed black and assembled, so i didnt make them "nurglish" and paint them as they are:
http://pics.livejournal.com/nninetails/pic/00030qq6/
http://pics.livejournal.com/nninetails/pic/00033s5b/
http://pics.livejournal.com/nninetails/pic/0002yda6/
http://pics.livejournal.com/nninetails/pic/00037ddy/
http://pics.livejournal.com/nninetails/pic/00039x1p/
http://pics.livejournal.com/nninetails/pic/0003ab2e/

So you can see my first skin-painting tryings ^_^