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I just got back from hobby town with what I was originally thinking was tallarn flesh. I took the label off of the front and saw that it was in fact dheneb stone. The color looks like it could pass as flesh, but I've never seen anyone recommend it. Has anyone used it as a flesh color before?

I use dheneb stone for flesh; it looks great, especially with some washes of purple in the eyes/cheeks and Gryphonne Sepia all over.

It looks much more realistic than any of the actual flesh tones. My Servitor and Firebelly both use Dheneb

It looks to be on the pale side as a flesh tone, but definitely something I'd try. endtransmission's models look pretty decent with it, but looks like they were basecoated with a darker shade first.

Personally, I swear by Reaper's Flesh color triads. I've got Tanned, Golden, and Rosy and they work really good for me.

Nope, no darker shade first. The flesh was base coated with Dheneb stone over a white undercoat.

For the Servitor it was Dheneb stone, green/purple washes in the cheeks and eyes followed by a wash of gryphonne sepia over the top.

The Ogre was Dheneb stone basecoat followed by washes of dheneb stone mixed with varying amounts of charadon granite for the shadows, then building back up to pure dheneb highlights.

So for a squad of Imperial Guard, would you recommend that I prime in white instead of black then? (first time painter by the way)

I really would. I've only recently started playing with white undercoats, but it can give you some really great effects with little effort.

For example my guard platoon was done with thin washes of paints.

When you're painting, it's always a great idea to thin down your paints so you get a much smoother layer of paint. It's also much easier to control as it flows nicely off the brush. I took this one step further and thinned the paint down to about 50/50 paint-to-water, which means that the paint almost forms it's own shadows and highlights on the white undercoat. It's quick to do and looks great after a little experimenting.

Good luck with your guard!

I very respectfully disagree with the prime white camp. For beginners, black is MUCH easier to deal with. It helps hide mistakes and missed spots, especially when dry brushing. White is great for making colors pop, but it is much more work to ensure full coverage.

Each to their own. I've painted with black undercoats for years and have found it refreshing to paint over white, especially when using thinned down paints, as your colours come out much richer with much less work. You just need to be careful to paint into all the cracks so you don't end up with white shadows

I'm currently introducing some friends to the joys of painting at the moment. We've been through black and white undercoats and it seems to be down to how neat you are when painting. Dec (who is 12) prefers black as he just wants to slap some paint on and call it finished, but his dad prefers white as it gives him a cleaner canvas to work on.

I mix and match depending on what I am painting. This Ork was painted with washes over a white primer coat, whereas everything in my DnD Blog was painted over a black undercoat. Even within my Lamenters army, half of my forces are painted with black undercoats, half with white.

To be honest, I think an army looks best painted one way or the other, instead of mix and match, but I like both.

I use both deneb stone and bleached bone for flesh with washes to add colour and shade, highlights of deneb.