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I'm super keen to get started on my Malifaux Teddy mini, and I want to go for a Lotso from Toy Story 3 colour scheme, but I've never painted pink before. I notice that Tentacle Pink doesn't seem to exist anymore, so I was intending on either grabbing the Vallejo pink or just mixing my own, but I'm not sure exactly where to go from there. It's not really a colour I imagined I would need to worry about outside of little flair items like bow-ties, etc.

I was planning on starting with my normal grey undercoat, but is pink a colour that is 'safe' to paint straight over a light basecoat, or do I need to build up to it ala white & yellow? My plan was to lay down the pale pink, wash it with a thinned purple wash (leviathan), and then drybrush the pink again to try and give it more of a magenta look in the recesses, and then more highlights mixing skeleton bone into the pink.

Have you looked at the pinks in GW's Horror's Paint Bundle?

Pink horror is actually a really nice pink

Thanks guys, I don't typically use Citadel and so I haven't actually tried their bundles/suggested colour schemes. I grabbed the three pinks from the bundle that are suggested for drybrushing, so we'll see how it goes.

The only paints GW actually 'suggest' for drybrushing using the Citadel Paint System is their Dry range of paints, in this case its Changeling Pink. However you can use any of the colors in the Horrors Paint Bundle to drybrush with the exception of Carroburg Crimson as its a wash.

Oh yeah, I realise that. Of all the different ranges within Citadel paints, 'dry' is the one that doesn't make a lot of sense to me. But they have two sides of their chart for each base colour that shows the progressions either way - left for layering, right for drybrushing - which includes the one "dry" range paint at the final step, as well as a non-dry range pink as the middle step. Unless I read the chart wrong about 30 mins ago.

It is worth pointing out that some of the original Citadel Dry colours are available in normal consistency as Citadel Edge paints. Fulgrim Pink (Edge) would be equivalent to Changeling Pink (Dry). Citadel Edge paints were first addition to Citadel Paints range, allowing painters much-wanted access to the light Dry colours in non-Dry consistency. Dry range was expanded later by adding several existing layer paints into Dry range but keeping the original names.

Citadel Edge paints are Web Store Exclusive.

DISCLAIMER: I recently painted Teddy. The fur texture is not very sharp, so I suspect that drybrushing may not give you the effect you want!

I'd suggest that after the wash step, you pick out some fur on the higher parts of the model with brush strokes instead of drybrushing. I think flatness of the fur may cause the drybrush to intrude on your recesses.