Painting Purple/Pink Flesh

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**Kamsm8**

So I decided that, for my Wood Elf army, I wanted to paint their flesh purple (almost pink) like the Night Elves from World of Warcraft.

Now, I don't want anybody telling me what a bad idea it is. Or how silly it will look. Or that I shouldn't mix the two. I don't care for that. I, personally, am sick of human-toned skin. What I want to know is a good way to accomplish a flesh tone like this:

I was thinking a possible base of Warlock Purple with either Bleached Bone or Skull White mixtures into it. It really blows that GW got rid of Tentacle Pink, and that I have nowhere near me to get other brands of paint...

Anyways. Any suggestions and tips you guys have would be much appreciated! Pictures even more so!

**starsdawn**

http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1520035_baal_red.jpg Maybe something like this?

Basically it's just Skull White washed with Baal Red. What you can do after that is layer it with lighter colors, or start with a darker base color (a grey, maybe?).

**Kimzi Caky**

A white basecoat washed with purple might do the trick.

**Dual Face**

wait, they got rid or tentacle pink?
when was THIS????

anyways, I think your idea is good, I just can't think of much else besides what starsdawn has mentioned, but you can always buy pink from another company

**AustonT**

warlock and liche purple mixed with white highlights

**fenrir1997**

Dude, your idea rocks. Post some WIP pictures, and let us know how stuff works, k? I kinda wanted to do something like this myself.

AustonT wrote:warlock and liche purple mixed with white highlights

+1, Sounds pretty good:

Flesh:
Warlock Purple, highlight with white, or lightened purple (50/50?)
Follow with Leviathan wash (watered down, don't need it super dark).

Hair:
Liche Purple, wash with Badab Black(watered down), followed by white highlighting. Maybe instead of Badab Black use Asurmen Blue wash?

Leathers:
Rotting flesh washed with either Badab Black (watered down) or Thraka Green.

Good luck!

**Kanluwen**

I know that you don't want to hear it, but...

The Elf flesh in Warcraft? It's not actually purple. Blizzard lifted the colors of the Forgotten Realms' "Drow" for the Night Elves. They have a black flesh tone, but due to how it tends to look in art it ends up being a purpley-black.

If you really want to copy this though, do not actually paint the flesh purple. It will look absolutely terrible.
You want to use a warm fleshlike tone, like Dheneb Stone or Khemri Brown and then gradually blend it with Hormagaunt Purple.

**Uhlan**

If you want a black skin tone use very dark greys, do not paint anything black... on miniatures black looks 'wrong' especially skin tones.

**AustonT**

are THESE the right colors?

**MagickalMemories**

You should still be able to get that tentacle pink color. Just expand your horizons a bit. : )

Vallejo still makes their copycat version:
http://miniaturemarket.com/inc/sdetail/7022/7037

It's an exact duplicate. I have a complete set of Vallejo's Game Color line. It mimics GW colors perfectly.

Eric

**Kamsm8**

@AustonT: Yeah! That looks really good. What and whose color is that? And how did you do so?

At everyone else: I appreciate all of your input. Kanluwen, specifically, I'm familiar with the Drow. However, I do not think that your suggestions would end up anywhere close to the color I want. I appreciate that you think it might not work, but I want to, at the very least, try and achieve the color in the picture I posted. I'm a fan of flatter, brighter colors and generally cartoonish paint schemes.

I'm leaning towards the Liche -> Warlock -> White scheme. I'll post some pictures when I finally get around to trying it out.

**AustonT**

Sorry for the lag on response.
Those colors are right HERE:

I also figured I'd include the related inks

I achieved the effect in the picture by laying down a basecoat of deep magenta and feathering the medium magenta from the edges. It could be easily duplicated with thin layering or drybrushing. There are quite a few more shots of my magenta jetbikes in my Free Candy thread. ( shameless self promotion)