Legio Wargames

Unless I am painting figures with metal armour I always paint the flesh first. This sequence shows how I go about it. I will deal with armour later.

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Finally I highlight the forehead, cheekbones, nose and chin with a pale flesh using the basic flesh colour with a bit of white added. If the figure is clean shaven I also put some pale flesh with a bit of red added on the cheeks.

Do not worry if the contrast seems a bit extreme at this stage it will all be fixed with the final raw umber wash. In any case on smaller scale figures you need quite a bit of contrast or the details will fade at the normal viewing distance.

Then, using a very fine brush I put a dab of dark brown in the eye sockets and red brown over the lips.

First I simply paint the skin areas with a pale flesh colour. Coat d'arms 213 Flesh works well. I then apply Games Workshop's Flesh Wash. You can see the difference the wash makes on the right hand figure. The left hand figure has not yet had the wash