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    November 2005
Skin tones fiasco
Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 29, 2004 9:45 PM
Hey all. Just had a figure question. Is there any way that I can achieve various skin tones like one can achieve with oils while using acryilcs? I tried doing coats of differnet shades on different places for my 1/35 soldiers' faces and building up the paint with acrylics but I just can't get it to look as good with acrylics. Does anyone know of a way I can do this with Acrylics or is this an oil only thing? Thanks!
  • Member since
    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 29, 2004 10:00 PM
Not sure about 1/35 skin-tones, on larger Kits I have used a few formulas successfully:

1.) David Fisher:
Ratio of 1:3:6 using burnt sienna, raw sienna and titanium white this basic forumula will give you a generic caucasian colour using paints like liquitex and similar.

2.) Anime flesh (can be darkened for caucasian flesh):
Ratio of 8:1:1: using yellow orange (#58) and red(#3) and sky blue(#34) and Mr. Base white from the Gunze range.

3.) Another colour mix I use at times:
Character Flesh 1 + Character flesh 2 with hints of clear blue and clear orange also Gunze range.

Neither of the above are oils, but are all acyrlics or enamels.
This will give you a base colour (prepare in large quantities and store) for highlites and shading simply take a bit of the basic colour and darken or lighten it a bit.

David Fisher is a worlwide renowned figure painter, sculptor and modeler., he and Anthony mestas even partook in japanese modeling competitions.
For more infos in his skin-tones and techniques you can check his Model Mania Video series.
  • Member since
    January 2003
Posted by shermanfreak on Sunday, February 29, 2004 10:08 PM
One of our members has a site that goes into painting figs with acrylics.
Here's the link
http://alphaimagemodelworkshop.com/Index.htm
Happy Modelling and God Bless Robert
  • Member since
    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 1, 2004 12:14 PM
Thanks sherman! It helps a lot. I really wanted to get all the shading and highlights without using oils and that helps a lot! Thanks Madmodlefactory too! It all helps.
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