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Hey dakka

Over the last week i've been reading up on warhammer fantasy and the vampire counts. I'm just looking for some ideas on a variety of different zombie/ghoul/pallid/rotting flesh tones, what sort of colours from the citadel range and what order of layering would be good. Some links to some painting tutorials or websites would be helpful. Had a little google search but nothing really what i'm looking for.

Also if anyone could give me a hand with working out what sort of paints the GW crew used in painting the flesh tones in these pictures.

Many thanks!

Sorry for bumping this thread, genuinely looking for advice here

Would try Elf Flesh and then highlitening, maybe with a kind of grey

Its not the same effect as those pics, but what I did was spray them white and give them a heavy wash of Gryphonne Sepia. It brings out all the crevices and oozing instestines nicely. All that then remains is to shade them a little.

I asked this very same question last year and the responses I got included the following: Tallarn washed with purple or rotting flesh washed with red and/or purple inks. A more advanced method is

50/50 Tallarn/Rotting, then wash with red ink and purple ink. Highlight with tallarn then rotting, then a bit skull white.
It's best to experiment.

For those in the pics though, I imagine, roughly:
For Skin:
1.Spray white.
2. Paint the whole model fortress grey but not too heavily.
3. Wash Baal Red (Again, not too heavily).
4. Rotting flesh on the whole model, but leave some of the previous painting showing in the recesses.

Oozing Intestines/Gore
1. Paint Red Gore.
2. Highlight Blood Red.
3. Wash Baal Red.

The rest is simple, just clothes and Weapons.

Hope this helps.

I'm not sure if it'll help but I recently put up a step by step guide to painting zombies on y blog, feel free to have a look.

http://miniaturesforroleplaying.blogspot.co.uk/

I'm no expert painter and the guide is designed to help those that haven't been blessed by the god of painting with infinite skill.

My zombies aren't remotely the same, but I think they look nice and they were dead easy to paint.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-59981-27869_Vampire%20Counts.html

White sprayed undercoat, heavily watered down Catachan green for the flesh and watered down browns/blues/reds for the clothes and details, a bit of red slapped on for blood and then a dark brown wash of my own creation over the entire model (basically Devlan Mud, but since I didn't want to waste Devlan Mud I mixed my own from 3:5 Agrax:Nuln).

The trick is the watered down catachan green so the white shows through slightly underneath which gives a pale look. You don't want it so watered down that it's like a wash and the white shines through too much, but you want it watered down enough that you get enough showing through so the model looks pale and dead (the same applies to the clothes to make them look faded). You could do the same with pinks/browns and it might give you a look similar to the GW ones rather than my green zombies.

When it comes to zombies I think speed is the best policy because you'll inevitably have heaps to paint, so white undercoat then watered down brown/green/purple/red/pink followed by a wash gives a nice quick way of painting them. I painted those 6 in the space of an evening and could probably do the whole regiment in a day if I weren't so lazy.