Painting faces on 15mm

[Dirk]

Hi,
I am painting my first batch of 15mm. Everything looked great until I
tried to paint details on the faces (eyes, mouth line). I used 'Skin
Tone Warm Tint' (Model Master Acryl) as base color and tried to paint
the details on it with black or dark grey. While this worked quite
well with my Warhammer miniatures, I don't get this thin enough and
exactly in the right place on the 15mm (although I use quite a thin
brush (5/0)).

How do you paint realistic looking faces? I also thought about using
a dark brown wash and the drybrushing with the skin tone but I am not
sure whether this will color the eyes dark enough.

BTW: Do you know a site with a picture gallery of painted 15mm
details (faces, uniform details).

Thanks
Dirk (Remove 'nospam' for direct email replies)

[Pete LaPlaca]

Put a base down of medium flesh. Then wash on brown, which will sink into the sockets and crevices of the face. Wait until this dries (1 minute or more), then hit the forehead, check bones, and ching with medium flesh or light flesh. That's all you need for a really good effect on 15's. Good luck

  

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[RedLokomotiv]

Well: What I do now is just paint the face flesh (with Citadel Elf Flesh), and
then after the entire fig is painted, I brush the entire fig with a coat of
MinWax (forget what kind). After this dries I spray it with matte varnish. At
15mm, I prefer the adage, "less is more". The minwax creates the necessay
darkness and shading to how contours of the face.

[Dallas Gavan]

G'day, Dirk.

Mike MacGillivray has compiled the method he uses and it's available at
http://199.242.194.151/comments/paint1.html for reading. There's also
lots of pics on the other pages of our site. Just remember one thing-
paint to please yourself, nobody else. There's always someone who will
want to tell you how to do your figures "properly". The only one you
have to please is yourself.

Dal.

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[Martin Rapier]

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How do you paint realistic looking faces? I also thought about using
a dark brown wash and the drybrushing with the skin tone but I am not
sure whether this will color the eyes dark enough.

I find that 15s are so small all you need is appropriate shading, I do:

a) undercoat black & then damp brush white to pick up the highlights
(otherwise you sometimes get a greenish tinge to lighter colours)
b) overall flesh colour (I generally use GW Bronzed Flesh) - you get a bit
of shading due to black/white undercoat at this stage
c) wash of Windsor & Newton peat brown ink (this is very dark brown)
d) I drybrush the whole figure in light sand - this picks out highlights
like noses, fingers etc as well

Looks good enough.

Cheers
Martin.

[Andy O'Neill]

In article <3b1991ae$1...@Usenet.com>, Dirk <Dirk_L...@nospamemail.ms
n.com> writes

> How do you paint realistic looking faces? I also thought about
> using
> a dark brown wash and the drybrushing with the skin tone but I am
> not
> sure whether this will color the eyes dark enough.

In 15mil, once on the table.
How could you see realistic looking faces?

Mix some thinned johnson's Klear ( floor varnish ) in with your wash, or
some car screen-wash (isopropyl alcohol) to reduce surface tension and
this should work fine.

Or use the pre-shading technique outlined on my page +- the above.

Andy O'Neill
www.l-25.demon.co.uk/index.htm
Liverpool Wargames Association
www.l-25.demon.co.uk/LWA.htm