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Hi chaps ( and chapesses),

I will be starting a dio in 1:35 in the near future depicting three German POW's under escort, two of which carrying a casualty. I will be using the Masterbox kit and would like to do a bit more than merely using flesh colour paint on the faces. Anybody got any good and simple tips or hints for painting a decent face?

Kind regards,

Dave

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There are some good books about from Osprey, Verlinden and even Games Workshop that will guide you.

My technique, if I was using acrylics, would be to pick out my base colour and apply it, then shade areas like the eye sockets, sides/under the nose, under the lip, chin, jaw line etc with darker shades, Build the shading up gradually using layers, each one fractionally darker, so the shading is graduated. Repeat the process for highlights on the chin, forehead, nose, upper lip etc. A really thin glaze of a reddened base colour can lift the cheeks, but practice first. The same is true of a grey-black glaze to represent stubble.

Lips are slightly redder than the base colour, and a shading into the middle plus a highlight makes them pop.

Eyes need to be done quite subtly: unless you're going for a wide staring look, think more eyelid and less eyeball.

Hair is a variety of colours as the light falls on it.

Have a play around, and get a feel for what you like.

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the few figures I have done (3) were done starting with an all over dark flesh, and then adding thin layers of progressively lighter (I used sunny skin tone I believe to lighten the dark flesh (which was a dark warhammer flesh I think)....

ended up with:

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