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My local GW is running a Blood Bowl tourney next month and i have just acquired my Amazon team from Mailorder.

I know nothing about the fluff for these girls, but I'll hazard a guess that they're supposed to be dark-skinned. Which leads me to my question: Does anyone have/know of a good tutorial for painting dark skin tones? It really never dawned on me until i physically got hold of the models that i have never seen a GW mini painted with anything other than a caucasian/alien skintone.

Any advice would be much appreciated!

Amusingly enough, the vast majority of pics you see of them have them painted up with light skin. That said, there's a good discussion in the Painting and Modeling Tutorials section about painting skintones. I believe it's still on the first page. Yeah, check it out here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/268517.page

Cathan Brown base coat
Develan Mud wash, Badab Black wash
Repeat until you get the tone you want.
Highlight with Cathan Brown.
Extreme highlight with Tallarn Flesh mixed with Cathan Brown.
Palms & soles - Tallarn Flesh.

IIRC they are fair skinned, stranded Viking women I think was the fluff.

Because in the Grim Darkness of the distant past there were only white folks.

lol.
and right-handed people - BURN THE LEFTIES AT THE STAKE!!!