Paint giude for skin tones? Its for a 1/3 T2 bust.

[staermose]

Is there any guides out there for painting realistic skin tones? I'm working on a 1/3 T2 Arnold bust. And I would like it to look as realistic as possible. For the metal parts I'm planning on using alclad. And for blood I have some ideas for what to do. But the kin tones should really be as close as possible on this one. Please let me know if yoy have any ideas or input. I plan to do a lot of the painting with an airbrush. And use a regular paint brush for the finer details. Also if anybody knows how to paint black leather please let me know.

Thanks.

Its this one I'm working on. A lot of clean up i needed before I paint it.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

I partly painted these, but never finished. I think the skin color looks really good. I used humbrol water-based paints for this.



Here's the paint list in no particular order:

mat red
mat white
flesh
gold

First I started with a drop of red, then diluted it with white until it became a nice pinkish color, then I started adding the flesh, while mixing with white to get that orangy look out of the flesh color, but when I ran out of flesh color I continued with gold. It has very large flecks and isn't as smooth gold as most other brands, so it ended up looking really great, with a slight bit of shine or teint if you will. But be careful with the red - more than a drop and you'll need a lot of white, flesh and gold to dilute the color from being too aggressive and visible in the final mix.

Though, since I can't get Humbrol paints here anymore, but have to import if I want any, I feel I need to switch to another brand.

However, if anyone has a guide or a chart for what colors to mix to get separate skin tones and colors, then I'd definitely be interested in that.

For a nice leather look I use Testors Black Chrome Trim

 

[staermose]

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[streetjudge79]

I use acrylic model master paints by testors. Skin tone warm, skin tone light, Burnt Sienna, british crimson red. Also some yellow in the mix.

 

[staermose]

Anybody got a link to a step by step guide for painting relistic skintones?