Re: Painting Advice

At 10:56 AM 8/13/97 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a bunch of figures (old Grenadier Future Warriors) that have
Negroid
>type facial features, I plan to try to paint these with 'black' skin
tones
>but at the moment I'm struggling.  Does anyone have suggestions for
>painting 'black' tones ?
>
>Stuart.
>
>
>Stuart Murray

	You could try using a dark, blueish or purplish undercoat, at
least
in the usual shadowed 
areas, and much lighter, reddish tones to model the face and hands and
(especially) highlight.  

The highlights can be _much_  lighter than one might expect.

	Also, kill the white used for teeth and (especially) eyes a good
bit
more than for a european, 
to avoid them standing out too much.  Remember to lighten the skin shade
on
the palms.  

cheers, 
Rob Paul

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