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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9744656" data-attributes="member: 4534">A Rebel officer for Legion.  I spent the better part of my Labor Day painting this guy.  The art on the box depicted a Black male, so I went ahead and used that as a guide.  Painting human flesh is my Achilles hell and I find darker tones to be especially difficult.  Very often what happens with darker tones is I end up with what looks like an indistinct dark blob where the facial details should be.  When I correct for that, I usually end up painting a person with lighter flesh tones than intend, but I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.  I based dude's flesh with a 50/50 mix of Vallejo Nocturne Shadow (purplish brown) and Reddish Flesh.  For the next layer, I combined my mix of Nocture/Reddish with 50% Base Flesh.  The final layer is just some Base Flesh.  Remember, kids, these paints are slightly translucent, so the paint below your layers influences what you see on top.  [ATTACH=full]416004[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]416005[/ATTACH]This officer also has a lot more brown than I'm accustomed to painting.  I tried to make the leather holster and boots look distinct from one another.  The coat was painted with Paratrooper Tan from Army Painter followed up with a wash of Flesh Tone and Biel-Tan Green.  Once dried, I highlighted my areas with the tan again and highlighted further with Skeleton Legion from Two-Thin Coats.   One thing I have to note about Star Wars:  The units don't really look like they're designed to look cool.  i.e.  They have a believable aesthetic.  I've gotten used to Warhammer 40k over the years, and everything in there is over-the-top, balls-to-the-wall and in-your-face, but I can actually see a real human being wearing something like this.</blockquote>

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