Sep 14, 2016

How I painted the skin on my wood elves

It's been a while since I've posted anything here due to real life and that I've spent my free time painting.
I thought I'd just share how I've done the skin on my wood elves.

These are the colours I've used.
Colors used

I start by painting three coats of thinned out dwarf skin.
First coat

Second coat

Third coat
After the base coat I wash the skin with a thinned down Reikland Fleshwash. I try to avoid that the wash pool too much and rather just taint the skin. I then paint the eyes. It doesn't matter if I get the colours outside of the eyes since this will be mended in the next step.

Wash and eyes
I now apply the base coat again (thinned down) and paint over any white or black that's outside of the eye.
After the base coat
I then add some cadm. skin to the dwarf flesh, for the high lights and work my way up, adding more cadm. skin to the mix.

First highlight

Second highlight

Third highlight which is almost just cadm. skin
After the highlights I glaze some Reikland Fleshshade (1:1 mix with glaze medium) where the skin meets another colour, for example towards the belt. I also add some where I see fit (usually between the fingers).

Skin finished

Here's the finished miniature, except for the base



You can find more pictures of the team on my twitter, but I will post some pictures on the blog once it's done.

My next tournament is my own, the Underground Cup II and I'll be playing 'flings.
Stay tuned for a report from the tournament soonish, I hope

Thanks for reading.