paint suggestions

[Mitchman]

what's the best flesh tone colors out there? manufacturers?

[Squidy53]

Firstly for what? 1/35 faces, 1/10–1/12 busts, fantasy minis? For brush-only or airbrush + brush? Whatever the answer, it is quite subjective and a case of personal preference.

I mostly use brush. I'd opt for Vallejo Model Color. They brush well, are predictable, and you can assemble a whole skin workflow from just a handful of bottles. They are forgiving, widely available, easy to mix and there are lots of community recipes. Typical workflow: Flat Flesh > Basic Skin Tone > Light Flesh, often combined with a wash (or glaze) and highlight with off-white/ivory. Also: Scale75 flesh/skin sets: very matte; Andrea Color or Lifecolor flesh for smaller subjects; Abteilung 502 flesh oils/set for oils to blends.

[derekc62]

Just my opinion, but I don't think there's really one 'must have' line of paint for skin colors.

I start with a base color from a defunct producer and mix other colors into it until I get the exact shade I want.

For light-skinned characters, my palette starts with a pale skin color, magenta, a pale orange, a flesh wash (like a thin bronze or sun-tanned skin color) a transparent or thinned blood color and white.

I start with a drop or two of pale skin, a drop or two of magenta, a drop of orange, a drop of flesh wash and a dab of blood and mix together. I use a wet palette for this and get a gradient of shades that are lightened with white or water and are darkened with flesh wash or blood.

You can see this process in many of my videos on my YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@DerekC62

[Squidy53]

Just my opinion, but I don't think there's really one 'must have' line of paint for skin colors.

Maybe at your level Derek but some folks like me benefit from starting points/suggestions to try.

[tay666]

My 2 cents.
Buy some paint and start putting it on models. The only way to know what will work for you, is for you to try it and find what 'clicks'.
Yeah, I get not wanting to buy a bunch of paint only to find it doesn't do what you want it to. But what works for one person, will not necessarily work for another person. So trying different brands and different ways of applying them, is the only way to find a system that works for you.
I have been doing this consistently for over 25 years now, and I am still finding things that work better than what I did before.

FWIW I started seriously trying skin tones using the David Fisher recipe from Modelmania v1.
Mixing burnt sienna, raw sienna, and white except instead of using artist acrylics like Dave, I was using craft paint. It wasn't the greatest, but it did work.
After that, I bought craft paint that looked like flesh, then adjusted it up or down for shadows and highlights.
Then I moved on to Reaper paints, that had triads of different flesh colors.
Now I just kind of wing it with whatever paints I have on hand and whatever feels right.
It isn't a big part of my painting journey anyway as most humans I paint are really small scale so don't have to be quite so fancy.
The larger stuff I do is dino, kaiju, or fantasy, so not a whole lot of flesh.

[barad_dur]

Vallejo makes a very nice various skin/flesh color paint set.

The set is not expensive, easy to use, provides great base colors, and can be mixed, and augmented with other colors as noted above.

You can find the skin tone set on Amazon.

Vallejo also offers a various leather color paint set.
Some of these leather colors can also be used for skin tones.

[kevtk135]

As has been said almost every mfg. of paints has a set to offer,
I have some Vallejo, and Army Painter sets of 4 bottles/jars. whatever even tho triad is mentioned.
https://thearmypainter.com/products/war ... eb66&_ss=c
https://thearmypainter.com/products/war ... eb66&_ss=c
https://thearmypainter.com/products/war ... eb66&_ss=c

I also like Citadel's Reikland Flesh shade as a wash to settle in 2 or more colors. It can be thinned more than it is already to slowly consolidate.
HTH

[Mitchman]

thanks fella's! i guess i can expirement.i am just not too good with mixing. i guess abnormal human tones? monsters? darker,lighter, irregular ones. i guess for right now green or white fleshtones? frankenstein? dracula? etc..etc..
any good turorials,books,videos on good tones? wether paint brush or air brush? i thought lister model works had some cool tone videos?
Question: how would you start this skin tone? tan skin then to franky skin then shades? OR franky skins to human skin then shades? TO ME: photo looks like green skin then shade on tan skin.(2nd layer). then shades...