Flesh Wash

[Correus]

What's your favorite wash to use when painting Caucasian flesh? Do you use the same for Middle Eastern?

[Colonel White]

If doing one off figures as opposed to an army of which I would use AP dip anyway, I tend to use very diluted old GW flesh wash applied in very thin glazes. If painting Dwarves for example I would apply I tiny amount of red tint for the cheeks. For asian typ skin tones I would uses a tiny amount of brown applied thinly and built up

[Correus]

If doing one off figures as opposed to an army of which I would use AP dip anyway, I tend to use very diluted old GW flesh wash applied in very thin glazes. If painting Dwarves for example I would apply I tiny amount of red tint for the cheeks. For asian typ skin tones I would uses a tiny amount of brown applied thinly and built up

How diluted? 3 - 4 parts water to the GW flesh wash?

[Augustus_Gaius]

for my Romans i do tallern flesh then elf flesh and wash with ogryn flesh, looks quite good in my opinion:



for chinese i skip out the elf flesh:


so yeah orgyn flesh, some times i go over chinese skin with devlan mud aswell, but yeah

[Correus]

Those do look great! My problem is the layering...I can't seem to get it right. Typically I just go with a flesh color, such as GW Elf Flesh and then a wash.

[Augustus_Gaius]

That is what i do though just 3 separate coats, the tallern flesh acts a sort of basecoat, the only problem i have with elf flesh is that it is quite a thin paint, so 2 coats is normally required

[Correus]

But doesn't the tallern flesh get completely covered by the elf flesh?

[Augustus_Gaius]

well not completely, it acts as more of a base coat to be honest, elf flesh is a very thin paint so even with 2 coats the brownish tint from the tallern flesh is still visible i guess what it does is add some colour variation, hope that explains it

[mikeland]

I use varied shades of elf flesh mixed with orange and yellow, followed by a wash of Orgyne flesh for Caucasian or Mediterranean skin tones (I tend to use more orange in the Mediterranean to create a stronger base).

For Middle eastern I then wash again with a 50% diluted Devlan mud... but I do tend to then highlight after.

[armchairsaxon]

I just do elf flesh and then the GW flesh wash. Looks fine to me as a wargames standard. I then add eyebrows and eyes (white with black pupil)

For Middle East I mix 50% graveyard earth with 50% elf flesh then just devlan mud wash.

I know you can go for more elaborate systems but I am just trying to get troops into battle in the limited time I have for painting.