Skin Colour

This is, for me anyway, is a VERY important topic as all Ogre figs are half skin. For me I use a mix of Dwarf Flesh and Codex Grey or a mix of Rotting Flesh and wattered down Golden Yellow for the prime sickly colour!

So I ask: What skin types/mixs/colours do use use?

i do not go by the fluff, using my own spin for my African-American theme, so i'm using a spray paint base color called "Espresso" washed in black ink.

Base coat: Reaper Woodstain Brown:Reaper Tanned Flesh 4:1, 3:1, 2:1-ish depending how light or dark I want them.

Mid tone: Reaper Woodstain Brown:Reaper Tanned Flesh 1:1-ish depending how light or dark I want them.

1st Highlight: Reaper Tanned Flesh a bit of GW Tentacle Pink, and Woodstain Brown (Ratio varies)

2nd Highlight: Reaper Tanned Flesh added to the 1st highlight till I see fit.


Of note: Each Ogre's skin is painted individually. The reason for this is "realism". Even my sisters and I don't have the same skin tone, so I believe why should our models? Everything else though is painted assembly line for speed.

I use a very limited palette when painting but in several layers with washes and highlights using thinned paint.

Recipe: Tallarn basecoat (on black), wash with Ogryn flesh, highlight with watered down tallarn, highlight with tallarn and some bone in the mix with water, and a thin Ogryn flesh wash with water.

Result:



Sometimes I use more bone to get a lighter skin or wash an extra time with thinned Ogryn flesh and water to get a darker hue. And often I add some red and purple to get a ruddy face.

I like a 3 to 1 mix of graveyard earth with shadow gray over a black base coat. Followed buy a dry brush of 3 to 1 komando khaki. Dry brush straight komando khaki, then highlight with bleached bone. I like the sickly gray color I end up with...

for me the basecoat is a 3:1 of Graveyard Earth and Shadow Grey. then i do three more coats of paint each time adding one part Kommando Khaki.

Personally, i stay true to the standard color, i really like it, and its pretty easy to achieve.

I like a 3 to 1 mix of graveyard earth with shadow gray over a black base coat. Followed buy a dry brush of 3 to 1 komando khaki. Dry brush straight komando khaki, then highlight with bleached bone. I like the sickly gray color I end up with...

The blue works surprisingly well with that greyish green skin.


@Enkiel: I remember reading your first post of your Gnoblong. Wow have you come a long way. Again I really am liking blue with the skin hues you've chosen.

@k.Blas

Thanks. I have a small dwarf army that I painted in the same reds and blues, I wanted this maneater to look at home with them. I was very happy with the results.

I've literally done a random skin color for each of my OK. It resulted ranging from white to black and many many shades inbetween. Clothing wise they're pretty close to being uniform but skin is different.

I actually have a ogre army with rotting flesh skin.. First minis i ever painted..

I've literally done a random skin color for each of my OK. It resulted ranging from white to black and many many shades inbetween. Clothing wise they're pretty close to being uniform but skin is different.

Pics? That sounds very intriguing to me.

Chaos black primer then paint each ogre different shades of grey. Then washes and inks to blend it all together. I like to give each ogre a different shade of grey to blend the units together. Some darker some lighter.....And I'm gonna stay with the color scheme with the new models too......

I will have to look for the exact names, but I prime white, then use the new GW blue wash, maybe a second coat if it is not solid blue.  I am going to the mixing effect with the next color so the more blue it is the better imo. Then I use the standard GW pure yellow paint, and I dry brush that on, once the blue is totally dried on.  This will give you blue in the deepest part of the models, and a brilliant green/yellow in the mid range, and a slight yellow on the edges.  I then continue to pain the model in this state since it is easy to correct on, and one of the last steps is a bleach bone dry brush over the mid and high portions of the model.  This negates the brilliant green and turns it down a few notches, but I do come back with a light dusting of yellow dry brush after the bleach bone.

I have other armies that I have painted pretty dark, and I always hear the same thing when the army gets judges.  I love the technical side of your painting on this army, but it is so dark it is hard to pick out on the battle field.  Since I do not see Ogres running around in bright colors, I went with a more lively, yet not human flesh tone on my army. 

Anyways, I hope you enjoy...

This model is slightly more yellow than most of my army imo