I am currently working on some Andrea figs in the native american genre, looking for help in determing what colors i should be using to paint with. I am using acrlyics and want only to use this media. any help from the gallery is greatly needed here for me.

stu

Hi Stuart,
There is a great link that AJLaFleche posted on HF a while ago.It's superb a reference to painting various skin types from Native Americans to Albinos!
Hope this will help you out mate:
Ethnic Skintones

Cheers,
Shay

In addition to that article, you have to consider what tribes you're painting. For woodland tribes of the northeast, I use Vallejo beige red with dark skintone (Valejo games line) in 2:1 ratio. For plains Indians, I use thise colors 1:1 and for Southwest tribes, I use them 1:2. I add more dark skin tone for shadows and pale flesh for highlights, ending with well diluted pale flesh for the final highlight.
A couple years ago, Bob Knee did a really good article on this subject in Historical Miniatures Magazine.

Ah yes i found that last night after i posted here. that was a wonderful site and i have bookmarked it. i am anxioius to give it a shot later this evening. thank you for the help.

stu

i will that a shot. thanks for the help fellas.

stu