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I finally caved and bought an airbrush and today I tried to do some skin and I'm hoping to get some advice. I started with a Black undercoat then white ink zenithal. Bugmans Glove > Cadian Fleshtone > Kislev Flesh > Reikland Fleshshade.

what do you want to know friend? it looks like you've got a decent basetone down there?

Honestly, my advice for skin would be just to use a brush to finish it from there (probably not what you wanted to hear I know) but to get the best contrast youre going to need to use a brush, unless you can get super super fine spray with your airbrush, which, might be possible, Ive never even really tried, because honestly, brush is just going to be faster and easier.

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
what do you want to know friend? it looks like you've got a decent basetone down there?

Honestly, my advice for skin would be just to use a brush to finish it from there (probably not what you wanted to hear I know) but to get the best contrast youre going to need to use a brush, unless you can get super super fine spray with your airbrush, which, might be possible, Ive never even really tried, because honestly, brush is just going to be faster and easier.

I guess just where I should go from here to make it pop and be "done", I'm still pretty new to the hobby and I've never really gotten skin to look great.

MrH86 wrote:

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
what do you want to know friend? it looks like you've got a decent basetone down there?

Honestly, my advice for skin would be just to use a brush to finish it from there (probably not what you wanted to hear I know) but to get the best contrast youre going to need to use a brush, unless you can get super super fine spray with your airbrush, which, might be possible, Ive never even really tried, because honestly, brush is just going to be faster and easier.

I guess just where I should go from here to make it pop and be "done", I'm still pretty new to the hobby and I've never really gotten skin to look great.

Fair enough. Well there are lots of things you can do with skin. Do you want him to have healthy radiant skin? Pallid, pale skin?
For simple results here, I'd glaze some sort of shade down into the muscular recesses. Reikland flesh shade is quite good. Once you've done this, take your base flesh layer, then add a light colour.. White, or I use elf flesh from vallejo which is almost white. Add this to your base in increasing amounts, and layer it up to the upper surface points of his skin.. This should give you a nice skin effect. From there it's up to you if you want to enhance it with glazes.. I sometimes use blue or green glazes very lightly on some skin areas.

MrH86 wrote:
I finally caved and bought an airbrush and today I tried to do some skin and I'm hoping to get some advice. I started with a Black undercoat then white ink zenithal. Bugmans Glove > Cadian Fleshtone > Kislev Flesh > Reikland Fleshshade.

The skin colour looks good but it looks like you've lost the zenithal highlight a bit with all the paint layers. Also you've sprayed your shade last so there is no highlight over it. I'd try starting with Cadian Fleshtone, Reikland shade and then Kislev Flesh to high light. If your cadian layer is thin enough you should still see some of the zenithal highlight effects afterwards. You can also apply the kislev highlights as a zenithal highlight.