Foundry has several packs of figures suitable for an African slave revolt scenario.<\/p>\n
Some of the characters could be pirates, but as they are armed with muskets the seem better suited for a land encounter.<\/p>\n
But how to paint the skin?<\/p>\n
All black is too harsh. All brown is a bit better perhaps, but still not quite right. Searching around the web, I found several good articles. Perry Miniatures blog hs an article titled Painting African skin<\/a>–the focus, as you might imagine, is Perry’s Sudanese.<\/p>\n THe Cool Mini or Not forum has an incredible article covering all ethnic skin tones.<\/a> The author has collected sample photos, make color swatches and Vallejo paints. Referencing a commercial paint line is not optimal, but I also found, at another location a paint color cross-reference chart<\/a>. That’s still a little sketchy, as I like to use artist’s colors. I find that something like Ogre Brown is simply Burnt Umber.<\/p>\n Finally, from Boardgamegeek, a post that gives a simple formula:<\/p>\n Depends on which shade of black you want to render… I don’t know what the painters for Foundry used, but the results look pretty convincing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Foundry has several packs of figures suitable for an African slave revolt scenario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-painting-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I work typically as follows:
basecoat : mix pale flesh + earth brown
wash 1 : mix earth brown + dark red
wash 2 : dark brown
wash 3 : black (only in deeper recesses)
highlight\/drybrush : pale flesh (light-handed)
Then sometimes an overall brownish glaze to equalize the tones.<\/p>\n