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Does anyone have some advise on how to achieve a smooth looking flesh tone that's somehow green-tinted? I'm painting my DV cultists as followers of nurgle, so I want them to appear diseased and sick, but not yet totally corrupted.
I have tried a slightly thinned wash of biel-tan green over the skin (1. dwarf flesh - 2. reikland flesh shade - 3. bronzed flesh - 4. elf flesh), but it's not as smooth as I expected it to be.

Edit: I'm planning the same for a reddish tan on the cultists with CC wapons, to make them look like followers of khorne, btw

I'd look at a green ink just water it down a bit to your liking and apply it very lightly till you get the desired effect.

Also I would use a more grey flesh base tone, rather than a healthy brownish skin tone. People who are unwell tend to go pale and grey. that should give you a better base for the green wash.

I paint zombies by priming white, washing with badab black, washing with a light wash of thraka green or blue (depending on the skin tone you want), then washing with sepia.

 SilverMK2 wrote:
I paint zombies by priming white, washing with badab black, washing with a light wash of thraka green or blue (depending on the skin tone you want), then washing with sepia.

I just tried that. I had to substitute Thraka green with biel tan green and took reikland flesh shade instead of gryphonne sepia, but it's going much more in the direction I was looking for than my first mini! THX for the advice. I'll experiment a little with grey flesh tones and some washing.

Isn't there a new GW glaze or something that does just this? I forget what they're called.

Do you mean waywatcher green? The guy at my GW store told me that I should use the normal washes instead of the glazes. It was my first idea, too. going to pick up the glazes anyway next week.

 Riffgott wrote:

 SilverMK2 wrote:
I paint zombies by priming white, washing with badab black, washing with a light wash of thraka green or blue (depending on the skin tone you want), then washing with sepia.

I just tried that. I had to substitute Thraka green with biel tan green and took reikland flesh shade instead of gryphonne sepia, but it's going much more in the direction I was looking for than my first mini! THX for the advice. I'll experiment a little with grey flesh tones and some washing.

Glad it worked out better for you

Post pictures

there was a colour called pallid flesh by GW. If they changed it, Vallejo's game colour range still has it.

I recomend not adding any "warm" colors in your skin at all.
Sickly skin would be best done (IMO) with a grey base and the washing over with green/gray then re-layering over with nearly white except in the crevices. Should look good.

I tried waywatcher green and I'm quite happy how he turned out! Just a little green stain, not totally rotten or zombie-like. I hope the picture shows that... He looks a lot better with the glaze than with biel-tan green shade