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Hi Everyone

I am going to need to paint a load of zombies for the resident evil 2 board game soon so plan to use contrast paint for most of the work.

Obviously for clothes I can just pick what ever colours I want but I will also be after flesh tones for Caucasian and dark skin.

So any you can recommend? Comparison pics would be appreciated.

Thanks

Darkoath Flesh over Grey Seer base is the combo I like for zombies/poxwalkers. It produces a quite pallid Caucasian skin tone. I'm afraid I haven't got a working camera to show you how it works out, but you will find examples easily by googling.

Would love suggestions and examples for dark skin tones though.

Thanks Casualty, for some reason I thought darkoath was one of the darker tones and guilliman flesh was the lighter one so that's really helpful.

Everyone else - any suggestions for dark skin tones

For dark skin usually you want to work on the more rich tones

Wraithbone and thinned goregrunta works pretty well. Though except for speeding up and simple paint jobs contrast over skin is great but needs a little more "touchup" to make it pop just right but otherwise it works very well.

I've found gulliman flesh to be less than idea but I've done gulliman then thinned darkoath.

Layering the contrast paints brings out some very useful combos.

Thanks for the input Meatybtz. I am hoping the contrast paint can save me the wash step, quite happy highlighting after but would rather not have to base and wash them all.

Jamie Shred wrote:
Thanks for the input Meatybtz. I am hoping the contrast paint can save me the wash step, quite happy highlighting after but would rather not have to base and wash them all.

It totally can. I did my Sister flesh with thinned dark oath then some careful highlighting.

for Darker fleshtones focus on richness, reds, yellows for highlighting up from the brown. It goes up from reddish brown (think burnt umber) then into something more yellow tone like.. say XV-88 or similar. So goregrunta is reddish brown so it works great. but since you don't want whitish highlights you go for a Wraithbone base because you want a more yellow color.