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Made in fi
Fresh-Faced New User




Would it be offensive to paint dark brown flayed skin.
Haven't yet seen anyone paint dark flayed skin. Its always the Rakart flesh base coat in all flayed skin units.
So before I paint my bright flayed ones (or any model) with dark skin (for contrast).

Would it be bad? Also I'm white male.
   
Made in de
Huge Bone Giant






If you're paranoid about it I guess it depends on what kind of environment you'll use your models in and, if questioned, what your motivation is. As the plentiful representation campaigns of the recent past have taught us, people with different skin color and gender exist and can be found anywhere doing anything they want. Because equality and all that. It stands to reason that that includes having encounters with Flayed Ones that don't go their way. If you're deployed to fight Necrons, you'll also run the risk of becoming the latest fashion item. It's simply logical. Me, I don't see anything wrong with that. I like to think most people don't. But as it stands I can only speak for myself.

Artistically, I have a Flayed One I painted as a test model. It's old and and not very well painted, but since my Necrons at the time had white armor plates and I defaulted to light skin I have an idea what the combination looks like. and in my opinion it's not great. Mostly because it's patchy, blurs into each other and lacks contrast. I added blood effect to fix the latter (also not very well painted) and found that too stark. My takeaway? Darker skin can give the model a more interesting appearance if the Flayed One itself uses a lighter color scheme and is overall for the best. So in my opinion painting at least part of the squad with darker skin has merit.

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Made in gb
Frenzied Berserker Terminator




Southampton, UK

Stick some chunks of bright green power armour on the base, they've skinned some Salamanders...
   
Made in us
Nurgle Chosen Marine on a Palanquin





Livermore, Ca

Its not automatically offensive, one of my friends had a catachan army, he did every color skin that exists in our world. I did take notice of course, but after a moment I realized he's being realistic and I was biased.
   
Made in us
Fresh-Faced New User





I don't see a problem with it. If some people are going to point it out to you, they have more issues than the color of skin on a model. Do what you want. Freedom of the arts. Don't let people dictate your artistic mindset, once that happens, your models become theirs.
   
Made in us
Utilizing Careful Highlighting





Tangentville, New Jersey

Just to throw in my two cents real quick; it'd would probably probably look better if you had some dark and some light flayed skins. It would seem less like specifically singling out dark-skinned prey.

I find that Baneblade Brown drybrushed over Rhinox Hide makes a good skintone for what you want to accomplish (I did up a couple African American zombies for my friend's 7TV game).


 
   
 
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