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Made in us
Fresh-Faced New User




Greetings all. What a great site

I'm sort of new to the painting end of the hobby, and have been having trouble with skins (most notably human). I tried doing the adding of layers as shown in the Citadel book, but when it's dried, the face or hands, whatever, looks bumpy, and chalky, not a smooth skin at all.

Any ideas on how to make the skin look better?

Thanks in advance
   
Made in gb
Rotting Sorcerer of Nurgle





Portsmouth UK

by thining your paints more - should be the consistancy close to milk.

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Made in gb
Preacher of the Emperor






Manchester, UK

Bubber is spot on.

Skin, especially faces, is one of the most difficult things to get right. Unless you're working on a centrepiece model i'd suggest just using a basecoat, one highlight and a thinned down wash.

Have a dig through this section of the forums, there are plenty of excellent articles on painting differing skin tones!

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Made in dk
Battle-tested Knight Castellan Pilot





Copenhagen

I´ve found that a combo of washes and paints work better for me, than just paints.

Recently, I´ve been using thinned down Elf Flesh, washed with Gryphonne Sepia, with progressively lighter highlights, using these same two colors.

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Made in us
Fresh-Faced New User





I have had a lot of success with using the Tallaran flesh for a basecoat, followed by a wash of ogryn flesh. Then use thin highlights of dwarf flesh and a final highlight of elf flesh. The trick is, as Bubber said, you gotta thin those paints.

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Sneaky Sniper Drone




Chapel Hill, North Carolina

tau skin looks awesome drybrushed. . . saves some time. . .

I paint ultramarine blue first, then drybrush bleached bone and finally a little white
   
 
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