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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

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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