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Just starting to paint a couple of my Empire of the Dead figures that I'd like to do in non-Caucasian flesh tones.

First up is the 'Inscrutable Tong' and secondly Captain Nemo from the (sorry huge) picture below:



I'm aiming for an oriental skin tone for the 'Tong' figure and an Indian tone for Nemo. Any pallette suggestions? I have a decent amount of GW and Vallejo Model colour pots available but nothing's jumping out at me - I've done african skin tones OK before, but never oriental or Indian.

If you have access to buy them, Foundry has a number of non-Caucasian flesh palettes available. I have most of them and they are all fantastic (as is all Foundry paint).

I imagine balor brown could be a good base colour for flesh like that.

 JHall wrote:
If you have access to buy them, Foundry has a number of non-Caucasian flesh palettes available. I have most of them and they are all fantastic (as is all Foundry paint).

checked those out, and as my 150-ish pots will attest, there's no paint problem that can't be cured by buying more paints - will invest if nothing I play around with iin the next couple of days comes to anything.

Sing - Balor might work for the Oriental, but doesn't look brown enough for Indian - might experiment with that and my VMC Medium fleshtone for Oriental though.

There is a article on CMON on ethic skintones but it just lists model colour paints to use, no real SBS.

Link would be much appreciated if you have it - I might have the colours tucked away somewhere

http://www.coolminiornot.com/articles/1310-ethnic-skintones

Here it is.

Cracking article - thanks for that - looks like I do have a bunch of the colours already so time to get experimenting

Could you post pics to see how it goes?

Got a couple of figures clogging up the tray with their pasty Caucasian skin, but will try to push Nemo on in the next couple of days for skin at least. Tong may need a bit longer to get missing paints.

Tamiya "Flesh" is, unsurprisingly, an Asian flesh tone. Was painting my first German WWII troops many years ago and used the Tamiya flesh paint on the first one, followed by a WTF after it dried...

Finally got the first of my not-pasty-white-guys done for Empire of the Dead - Captain Nemo:



For the skin I used VMC Mahogany Brown> VMC English Uniform> VMC US Field Drab all straight from the pot, then a mix of the Field Drab plus VMC Amaranth Red and for the final highlights added some VMC Basic Skintone to that mix. Finally there were some small tidy-up washes of GW Agrax Earthshade diluted with GW Lahmian Medium.

And after I finished the skin I realised how much would be covered by the facial hair .

Now it's on to the Tong figure and hopefully he will lead a Tong gang when I pick them up after I finish the rest of my EotD Kickstarter figures.

In the end, I ended up going with a sort of Big Trouble in Little China Town look for the Inscruitable Tong, so almost zombiefied rather than properly oriental skin - that will get developed when I pick up and paint the rest of the Tong gang later in the year (and probably after I buy Foundry's Asian Skin set of paints lol).