How to Paint PALE SKIN on your Ravenguard, Dark Eldar and other tabletop miniatures. 3 PAINTS

In this video, we take a look at how to paint pale skin on your models. This could be for Ravenguard for Warhammer 40k, Flesh Eater Courts for Warhammer Age of Sigmar, or maybe some zombies from Kings of War. 3 paints, simple techniques and a great result.
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Paints Used:
GW - Rakarth Flesh
S75 - African Shadow
VMC - Basic Skintone 70.815
GW: Games workshop
VMC: Vallejo model colour
VMA: Vallejo model air
VGC: Vallejo game colour
VGA: Vallejo game air
VMCS: Vallejo metal colour series
S75: Scale 75
AK: AK Interactive
W&N: Winsor & Newton
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[@odinlindeberg4624]

Heyy, a fellow Night Lords appreciator. I'm about to get started on making a Night Lords legionary KT which may end up having some amount of bare heads, so it's nice to find a tutorial that gives a simple rundown on how to get the right sort of colour.

[@warhounds]

its always a good day when you start it with a tutorial from cult of paint

[@johnhanley5546]

The bit I hate the most - thanks for the quick tutorial - much appreciated.

[@dekai7992]

I know it's been awhile, but I've just now realised: that Marine looks like a very dogged Matt Smith. And I love it!

[@Sephvion]

That face really reminds me of Matt Smith.

[@knightzix_01]

doctor who?

[@Mikey__R]

Fish custard

[@Lavendeer201]

OMG you're right 😭

[@darkeiridan1087]

Another awesome guide thanks!.

[@cultofpaint]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@adamduncombe594]

These videos are great! Thanks for sharing

[@cultofpaint]

Glad you like them!

[@allanjenkinson4219]

I’d like to see you tackle an Asian skin tone, please. I’m struggling to expand beyond the basic Caucasian.

[@e.mailissimo2146]

In my oppinion: mix a bit of olive (like GW Castellan Green) into the darker color and something like GW Ungor Flesh or GW Kislev Flesh (or Vallejo Carne Oscura Dark Flesh Model Color) to be the lightest color (except some lighter top highlights color). I stumbled across that by accident when i painted an arrow-wife for my viking warband... all of the sudden she looked asian, so i gave her black hair and it looked really convincing.

[@kickas1469]

Great video !

[@cultofpaint]

Thanks!

[@Kid_illithid]

The background music is trippy

[@wollswayne]

Very nice. Would you ever release a guide on say, a chaos cultist? How to airbrush the smaller minis with a lot of detail?

[@cultofpaint]

yes defiinitely

[@wollswayne]

@@cultofpaint excellent I look forward to it!

[@jorey4565]

As always brillant artpaint,i think pale skin stone reflects thin skin and on the opposite dark skin stone much thick skin..so always add some tiny,tiny blood veins on the upper skull and close to the eyes with a pale blue,it's add some transparency/transluscent to the skin and a realistic effect too..

[@andydoran6272]

When I use a small brush and thin my paints, it’s not long before I get a little dry nub on the tip of my brush. Yours didn’t seem to do this, and held paint for aaaaaaaaaages. How did you manage this? Thanks.

[@cultofpaint]

Hmm, i guess maybe i'm refreshing the paint on the brush more often? Also climate makes a big difference. Generally there's not enough paint on the brush for a dry tip to form.

[@andydoran6272]

@@cultofpaint thanks for getting back to me. Now there’s a hope of lockdown finishing in the not to distant future, have you any early plans for painting ‘classes’ to resume this year? 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

[@rowanirish]

He looks like Doctor Who actor Matt Smith.

[@Zer0Crow]

My Raven Guard thank you in advance for this tutorial

[@cultofpaint]

Glad to hear it!

[@MrBurningrubber]

Man my rakarth flesh looks nothing like that colour. Mine looks so much darker ?

[@breakerhigh87]

Mine is totally different as well. Almost purple. Nothing like the colour in this video

[@Death_Metal_Head]

This video is very well made. Thanks, man! I'm assuming African Shadow is about equivalent to Citadel's Knight-Questor Flesh?

[@cultofpaint]

It’s much darker and more purple than questor.

[@cripplelord6383]

I have to say, this is the best look for pale skin I have ever seen, I really want to emulate it for an alpha Legion Army, but it's impossible for me to get Citadel paints where I live. What would you recommend as an alternative to rackarth flesh? From all of my searching the past few hours it seems like it's just one of those magic colors that doesn't exist in any other paint ranges.

[@D1gital-ZER0]

Based on swatches, I think The Army Painter's "Mummy Robes" is fairly close to Rackarth Flesh. Maybe "Banshee Brown"?

[@ExhibitedDrip]

This is the best flesh painting I've seen and it is really very achievable for most painting. When you put the head on the body it makes it pop even more. Do you have a paint tutorial for that body? I'm looking at doing Ulthwe and I reckon that would go absolutely sweet with them.

[@cultofpaint]

Thanks! Yep check out our indomitus playlist for the black templars video.

[@ernie1903]

Love it love to see a nurgle skin tutorial , thanks for sharing guys

[@alanshroue7]

will defo be trying this, always struggled with light flesh to not look really chalky !! Ty sir

[@cultofpaint]

Good luck! The Basic Skin Tone has a nice smooth finish

[@bezzy8257]

This is great, I would like to use these on my blood angels I think

[@cultofpaint]

Perfect for some space vampires

[@metheiam5714]

Has anyone foun a GW paint similar to the african shadow? I was thinking Gal Vorbak red or Barak Nar burgundy based how they seem on the website, but GWs color depictions can sometimes be a bit off imo. And i guess Pallid Wych Flesh could be used in stead of the Basic skintone paint?

[@MyName1sBOB123]

awesome thankyou, needed this for my Death Spectres

[@cultofpaint]

Sounds good!

[@LadungsBlitz]

I was thinking about painting my Chaos Marauders this way but than i realized that they are all topless and like 60% skin. Than i remambered that i would want to finish them some time in the next 10 Years :P Very nice tutorial def. gonna use it for some pale faces !

[@beybladechallenge7536]

Thanks.

[@nomusenopaint]

Nice! How do you blend the wrinkles on his forehead? I can’t seem to get them right. Either the contrast is to stark or nearly not there at all

[@cultofpaint]

I tried to keep the shade and highlight layers very thin. It was certainly a challenge on this mini though, not sure why.

[@craiggilchrist]

Brilliant video thank you. What's the brush you're using?

[@cultofpaint]

Winsor & Newton Series 7 watercolour size 1

[@Mikey__R]

Hey Henry. How important would you say it is to mix a slightly different skin tone for each model? I suppose that faces are the one place where you'd want to be inconsistent! EDIT: provided their faces matched hands and any bare arms, of course.

[@cultofpaint]

I think you have a lot of wiggle room with skin. Variation is cool, but also you aren’t gonna notice subtle differences on a bunch of 28mm minis.

[@Mikey__R]

@@cultofpaint and I suppose that's true in the other direction, if two squads painted on different days dont have identical airbrushed armour highlights, nobody is going to notice. Especially if they're quite intensely weathered.

[@rhivan6921]

What colors would you go use if you had to paint a more Vampiric or Idoneth skin tone where the skin is almost chalk white? I've personally been struggling with that, and I was wondering if I you have ever done something like it before, or had any idea for a newer painter what to do.

[@cultofpaint]

Hmmm, if only there was a vampiric release coming soon! We'll have a play around and put up an undead skin video.

[@rhivan6921]

@@cultofpaint Thank you for doing so :)

[@pieter-janvangucht2152]

Curious to see how this technique translates to larger models with more flesh exposed (the GW monster sized crypt ghouls for example)!

[@cultofpaint]

Same colours, just easier to apply with an airbrush! But perhaps I'll use one of those crypt horrors as the demo mini

[@pieter-janvangucht2152]

@@cultofpaint that would be awesome! Vampire counts is my next project (square bases but some of the new minis soon to be released. I want to be prepared when they 'reboot' fantasy 😉) and I've been banging my head for a good scheme for that type of 'fleshy' minis...

[@nickbryant2394]

thanks so much guys! cant wait to try this out

[@cultofpaint]

Have fun!

[@tastefulavenger]

Good need more raven guard tutorials from pros feel like they're almost always overshadowed by black templar and iron hands. Mainly for sharing a somewhat similar scheme.

[@MrDave13193]

These skin tutorials are perfectly timed got 20 Kairic Acolytes to paint over the next couple of weeks so these will help give the units a bit of diversity rather than the standard caucasian skin tone I find myself always going to.

[@cultofpaint]

Staring at a lot of sprues of acolytes here too.....

[@MarowakSteello]

Все видео не покидало ощущение, что кожа получается слишком бледной, но после выделения деталей черным цветом, оказалось все просто прекрасно.

[@brettschlee7090]

How long until your vid is cancelled by the woke jokers for overt "whiteness"?