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  • From: Huntsville AL
Lip colors
Posted by Comanche Test on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 10:00 PM

Okay, silly, simple, basic question - this whole figure thing is new to me.  I'm doing my first, a couple of Tamiya 1/35 WWII US infantrymen.  I'm a decent technician, but not much of an artist.  Uniforms and equipment I understand.  I can get the skin shadings, figure out what to do with the eyes, but what's the right color for lips?  My first mixtures came out looking like cheap lipstick on what an earlier generation called "soiled doves".  Suggestions welcome.  Thanks in advance.

Dan

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  • Member since
    May 2007
  • From: The Socialist Republik of California
Posted by Sic Semper Tyrannis! on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 11:02 PM

I like to mix my flesh color with a drop of Humbrol Wine. Then just paint the bottom lip.

SST

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  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Massachusetts
Posted by ajlafleche on Thursday, January 31, 2008 7:33 AM
A friend of mine just gave me some Citadel Suntanned Flesh. That seems to work well.

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  • Member since
    January 2006
  • From: Baton Rouge, Snake Central
Posted by PatlaborUnit1 on Sunday, February 3, 2008 6:38 AM

lips can be tough, even for female figs. I dont really paint males but considering the girls I paint are not wearing any form of makeup, I try to keep the lips just a slight tone pinker than the base skin color. I add a pinkish tone mixed from my base colors (all colors are custom for each figure) at 1:8 to my base, test it on scrap first and see how it looks when it dries and work with that.  

This is about as far as I go with lips, I want the attention on the eyes.

 

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