Video: How to paint Zombie Skin - 3 different ways
Added 2023-12-15 13:12:34 +0000 UTCHello everyone here is a video I have just finished about painting different colours of zombie skin. I hope the methods and recipes in this video are useful for all types of grim dead flesh, whether it's zombies, vampires, deathguard, poxwalkers, plaguebearers, anything nurgle, decapitated heads and corpses on your miniatures. I hope you enjoy the video!
- Dave
Paints used in this video:
Rakarth + Pallid wych flesh 1:1 OR
"Rakarth Mix"
1 part Gorthor Brown, 2 parts Baneblade Brown, 3 parts Administratum Grey, 1 part AK White.
Add more white into this for the basecoat of recipe 1.
Doombull Brown, Khorne Red, AK Black, Incubi Darkness, Storvermin Fur, Blue Horror
Ogryn Camo, Hobgrot Hide, Doombull Brown, Death Korp Drab, Ionrach Skin, Deepkin Flesh, White
Sybarite Green, Incubi Darkness, Stormvermin Fur
Nurgling Green, Screamer Pink, Incubi Darkness, Administratum Grey, AK White, Cadian Fleshtone, Deathguard Green, Rhinox Hide, Stormvermin Fur
Brushes used: Rosemary and Co Series 33 Sizes 0,2
Comments
Hey Andrea. Yes I add a small amount of airbrush thinner or you can also use distilled water. Just enough to get the paint moving and yes I also add a ball bearing to help. I will be honest I kinda stopped doing it as it can be very time consuming to do but using a small funnel definitely helps.
Infernal Brush
2024-06-14 09:51:33 +0000 UTCHi! Love this tutorial, gonna test soon, I have a stupid question, I see that you transferred the citadel in a dropper bottle, did you add an medium to it? Because when I tryed, the paint was too thick to properly transfer, and also, did you add any metal bearing inside the dropper? Sorry if it’s not strictly paint related but the only thing I don’t like about citadel is the pots that tend to dry! Thanks!!
Andrea Deotto
2024-06-14 06:53:11 +0000 UTCNot sure I really understand, are you saying these have a toy like appearance? I personally prefer the more satin finish of GW paints over more matt ranges where the colours tend to be duller, but this is very much a matter of personal preference. Citadel paints are still by far the most readily available so it's easier than telling people to get a particular paint from a more obscure range. If there are some paints that I can easily replace and the colour matches then I can recommend those instead (but I would do this for other reasons like poor coverage). If you really want a more matt finish then this can be easily tweaked using ultra matte or another matt varnish/medium. Not sure I see what you mean on the material either. I spent the best part of a decade working on resin miniatures as the ones for the box art are usually painted in resin first and I never noticed any significant difference in the finish once it was covered in paint. On the contrary I have enjoyed the move to plastic as it's so much easier to clean up and assemble not to mention usually much cheaper.
Infernal Brush
2024-01-15 12:55:32 +0000 UTCYour technique is truly incredible, but with plastic miniatures it might be advisable to change some Citadel paints for more matte paints like Scale 75, Kimera or AK that you already use for black and white. This is particularly obvious with these minis which really have a toy appearance (and there's nothing you can do about it). Citadel paints offer a beautifull shiny result on metal with relief and contrast but they make plastic look a bit artificial with certain tone. However, you have a strong community and I imagine that any transition is complicated. The very fashionable overly matte, flat and dull finish is not necessarily my cup of tea but I think there is a balance to be found by mixing different paints, medium and alternating different techniques. Not easy though... Plastic is really a problem, let's hope that one day Forgeworld resin (which is not perfect but which is better) replaces these plastic toys.
Bourru 63
2024-01-11 14:12:37 +0000 UTCI've waited so long for a proper eavy metal experienced painter. I remember trying to replicate the guides that used to be in White dwarf! Would love your take on the necrosphinx
G
2024-01-05 10:04:39 +0000 UTCLove this, I want to try this out on my Flesh eater court. Any idea what colours were used on the skin of the new Ushoran? Defo looks like some Ionarch Skin and Deepkin fleshtone
Simon Swan
2023-12-19 15:39:29 +0000 UTCAwesome work!
J. Taselaar
2023-12-16 08:49:44 +0000 UTCI amb thinking in the new vampires.
Miguel Angel Ahís
2023-12-15 17:59:52 +0000 UTCI really love this video.
Miguel Angel Ahís
2023-12-15 17:59:21 +0000 UTCIt's really cool ! I'm definitely going to use it to make my poxwalkers
Alexandre Benyahia
2023-12-15 14:56:31 +0000 UTCAwesome job!
Ariel Sasinsky
2023-12-15 14:42:48 +0000 UTCyup yup wuuuuuuup 🔥
Bertrand Bloc'h (bbl)
2023-12-15 13:37:43 +0000 UTCYesssss!!!🤘
Luke Vassh
2023-12-15 13:13:44 +0000 UTCAwesome ! Great job on them Dave ! 👍
Bastien Dupont
2023-12-15 13:13:21 +0000 UTC
