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Plz,oh wise sages of Dakka help me.I want to do a Tallarn army so wanted to give one of my models slight sunburn how would I go about doing this?

Most painters represent over exposed skin to sun via
darkern skin tone / tan .

Did you mean actual sunburn like peeling skin?

Well mix red into a well watered down bit of your skin colour then paint where you want it.

But, you do realise that the Tallarn are going to be used to desert conditions and thus would most likely have darker skin less susceptable to burning often.

Well Use Dwarf Flesh on the Areas instead of Highlights of a lighter color

Luna,I wanted just slightly redish skin.WhatWhat I am painting ogryns so maybe there skin would burn easier.

Depends on how you paint your flesh i think. I tend to highlight by slowly adding the final highlight color to the base color (as many do) so if maybe about halfway to the highlight level you started adding in a pinkish tone to the affected area (brige of the nose/across the bottom of the eyes) i would think that would produce a pretty stellar fresh sunburn look.

I think the key on that affect would be to keep it small and subtle. Seems like it would be very easy to screw up and make it too pronounced drawing the eye to the effect rather than simply adding to the model as a whole.

Deff Dread red Edition wrote:Luna,I wanted just slightly redish skin.WhatWhat I am painting ogryns so maybe there skin would burn easier.

ah ok so you do want it to be actual burn o_O
i found a pic for you ,



as you can see its almost like reverse high light, with the normal part we high light actually be the red part.

and here a real photo just incase:



Can mix 20% red paint / ink into your basic flesh tone.

Poor,poor boy thanks for the replies keep em comin im sota gettin the idea.

Deff Dread red Edition wrote:Poor,poor boy thanks for the replies keep em comin im sota gettin the idea.

well... i'll make it easier for you since i dont want to link anymore disturbing pics lol.

white skin --> pink
asian skin --> pink

brown skin ---> darker shade of brown.
black skin ---> cant tell the difference.


Thats pretty much it.

LOL,thanks!!(for the advice the pics where helpful but really really scary!!!!!)

Deff Dread red Edition wrote:LOL,thanks!!(for the advice the pics where helpful but really really scary!!!!!)

Sorry but i cant stop myself from not teasing you now :x




cant really tell if sunburn or not, or ALL hmmm o_- eww

OMG! That looks like a tanned leather couch.

My eyes! They burn!!

Kinda hungry for some beef jerky though strangely...