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A quick question for you all: how do you paint black skin? I'm thinking of painting my Ultrasmurf Chaplain in African skin-tones, as a nod to the concept of Ultramar's planets having equatorial belts. I usually paint skin green, or use some combination of tallarn flesh, dwarf flesh, elf skin, gryphonne sepia and devlan mud, so I'm at a bit of a loss here.

I've never done this before, but there really is no such thing as black skin (there isn't "white" skin either, not even Albinos). Go for a deep dark chocolate brown.

White primer, wash with badab black for shading, then water down snakebite leather and apply in layers. Apply a coat of devlan mud at the end, maybe. I'm fairly sure this is the process my roommate used.

TheHarleqwin wrote:White primer, wash with badab black for shading, then water down snakebite leather and apply in layers. Apply a coat of devlan mud at the end, maybe. I'm fairly sure this is the process my roommate used.

That seems like it'd make for quite a light result, judging from the colour sample on GW.co.uk. You don't have finished result photos, do you? The model is already undercoated black.

Charles Rampant wrote:That seems like it'd make for quite a light result, judging from the colour sample on GW.co.uk. You don't have finished result photos, do you? The model is already undercoated black.

I'd have to dig through his army cases to find it, but he's not here to ask today. Ultimately, it depends on how dark you're aiming to go considering the wide range of skin colours that count as "african skin-tones". Snakebite is a good medium tone, but GW does a "dark flesh" colour as well. I still advise layering because it helps you control the tone you want to achieve.

Scorched Brown, with a wash of gryphonne sepia. Highlights are usually 1/1 scorched and calthan

The problem with Fantasy games is that "Black Skin" and "Dark Human Skin" are to TOTALLY different things.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/408800.page#3538862

is what you're looking for.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/articles/1310
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/427538.page#3873924

may help.

Joe Mama wrote:I've never done this before, but there really is no such thing as black skin (there isn't "white" skin either, not even Albinos). Go for a deep dark chocolate brown.

Yeah I was talking about human beings up there.

I thought you meant char-black like Salamanders lol.

Anyway, here's how I do it:

Prime grey, wash with gryphonne sepia 2x, wash with a heavy coat of ogryn flesh, wash with thinned devlan mud.

Samus_aran115 wrote:Scorched Brown, with a wash of gryphonne sepia. Highlights are usually 1/1 scorched and calthan

I may give this one a try - partially because I own those colours. The tutorial linked to in another thread is amazing, but requires that I 1) own more paints and 2) be a better painter. Baby steps.

Thanks for the advice all!

Charles Rampant wrote:

Samus_aran115 wrote:Scorched Brown, with a wash of gryphonne sepia. Highlights are usually 1/1 scorched and calthan

I may give this one a try - partially because I own those colours. The tutorial linked to in another thread is amazing, but requires that I 1) own more paints and 2) be a better painter. Baby steps.

Thanks for the advice all!

Somewhere around here there's a paint color conversion guide, I'd wager that might help you match what you have to what you need.

Personally I perfer to get general ideas, then experiment. Worse case scenerio the buggered model goes back in the dip for a night.