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Hey, I need to paintsome black heads for some of my units for my army and I need to know if you guys have a combination of paint to make i look realistic.

Thank you

Black can be hard to highlight and shade as most of the time the contrast is to great. I won't completely repeat information but instead just provide you this link to another Thread which should help.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/228129.page

Edit: Just reread what was posted, Do you mean African American heads?

For that I give you this, http://www.coolminiornot.com/articles/1310-ethnic-skintones

Painting a dark blue and washing black can give a good "black skin" look, as can using a mix of black and blue paints to give a "midnight blue" colour, washed black to shade, rehighlighted with the original colour and then highlighted with a slightly lighter vesion of the midnight blue, perhaps with a hint of purple.

Yeah im going for the African American look, sorry if I wasn't precise abut that detail