Hobby Cheating 233 - How to Paint Pale Caucasian Flesh Tone 

This is really helpful. I've always found skin to be among the most challenging parts of a mini to paint because you don't have hard edges between the color transitions. It really requires you to work on your blending skills. I like that challenge, and I like when skin turns out well, but I often have a hard time with the technical aspects of getting a believable look. This is such a great guide to help with that--thanks.

Awesome, love seeing undershading past prime, always makes me think of new ideas.

It's good to see you using Reaper paints! I know you've used most if not all of the mini paints on the market, but when I don't see Reaper featured in most of your videos, I wonder if I'm using sub-par paints. I will say, they're the only paints I have any real experience with and I have fun when I paint, so I'm happy with them :)

Really fantastic hints and tips on blending and getting the appropriate color saturation. The transition between the shading of skin tones is flawless. Awesome instructional video! Would like to see your take on flesh tones for Chaos warriors. 😊

I think this will help me with the project I'm working on. Thanks as always for putting up this awesome tutorials! Two things I always struggle with and maybe stuff for future videos : 1. How to get rid of mold lines in tiny spaces. Like one running along the line of a segmented cable (I look at you Space Marines) or or a line of spikes or small horns etc. 2. Light and shadows on more or less vertical parts (cylinders) of a miniature. More on a display painting level. How to distribute the lights to make it look interesting. Wyrds Forgotten Marshall is a good example. His coat has this very big vertical folds. And his arms and legs are very static vertical cylinders with only small folds to play with.

You’re knocking it out of the park, fantastic content as always! Thanks!

Man, I want a Witch Elf Army... love the flowing hair and battle crazed looks they sculpt those elves with.

Came here to thank you Vince. I checked out legends of the painty men and I love it. So entertaining.

Yes! Good morning America! At the moment I can’t tell if I’m inspired to start collecting a DoK army or if the last fiber of my “hate painting” just incinerated from the body/mind. One is silver and the others Golden! 🙏 Have a great weekend Vince!

As a Swedish/American originally from the upper Midwest, I highly represent this tutorial. ;) As always, keep them coming. Your cheats are always helpful and usually trigger all sorts of uses for my ever growing polystyrene stack o' shame.

Alright, Tower of Doom and Shadows of Mystara are amazing games. I love playing them on my RetroPi. Instant classics.

that base coating stage is better than 99% of all my paint jobs.

>First video I've seen where Vince uses Reaper paints (besides the range comparison). Particularly the flesh colors, which are terrific. Me (w/ Emperor Palpatine voice) : "Goooood..........Goooooooooooooood :)"

wow amazing color choice for dark elves skin tone, love it very much greetings from Belgium Franky

Hey Vince, I am excited to paint up some gargants and take a break from some other projects. When coming to flesh tones I wanted to get your thoughts on using purple as an undertone via a zenethal highlight.

I've always liked Reaper's skin tones. One of the few I've had to replace a few times because of how much I used them.

As usual, great video. I’d like to see a Hobby Cheating on glowing coals, please!

Possibly stupid question: In HC 391 you say glaze with pure pigments avoid white or paint with a large white component per brightness and pigment size. Maybe that explains why viewed up close most of my minis have a skin disease. However, in HC 233 (Pale Caucasian Flesh Tones), the Gothic Crimson/Warrior Flesh combo and (even more) the Warrior Flesh, Moon Ray and Glacier Blue combo look like they have a lot of white, and they clearly work. What am I missing here? Is a medium instead of water more important when glazing with lighter paints? I would like to know what I am doing wrong before diving into the next batch. Thanks

Great stuff as always. Would like to see a video with only artist grade primary colors. I like using these for painting miniatures but maybe you have some knowledge to share on this topic.

Amazing, it has more pink than pale, white-ish, colour and still looks pale skin. My pale skins often look like masks or too much makeup...probably too much white and not enough red/pink. This should also help with the "chalkiness" of white that I have.

Wow great work. I wish I could just intuitively push the colors like you do. I just need to keep practicing

Awesome video, I wanna try to do this on some of my witch elfs, thanks Vince!

Vince, just double checking I have this right: when you did your dark glaze, you glazed over the shadows, and the lighter glaze over the highlights? Did you also apply those glazes to non shadow/highlighted areas?

Hello Vince, I found your channel through the recommendation of Atom at Tabletop Minions and quickly found this series. I've started at your first video and have made it maybe 15 in. I just wanted to say that I appreciate all of the time and effort you've put into teaching new people like me how to paint efficiently. I'm not sure if you've covered this (I'm sure you have somewhere), but how do you overcome that apprehension of just painting your first mini? I'm at that stage where I have all the supplies needed to start, minis assembled, zenithal primed, but I just keep thinking I need to watch one more vod before I begin putting paint on the mini. Thanks for everything you're doing for the community!

Thanks again for the video!!!

As i'm rather limited at the moment by the paints I have, what Citadel paints would you use to achieve a similar effect on a model? Love the look of the elf by the way, skin turned out suuuper nice, (hoping to use it on a realm of shadow slaves to darkness army) hope your competition went well ^.^

Great video Vince! Any tips for a neutral color to start out with in the Vallejo or Citadel range? If you don't have an airbrush, better to skip the "hull-red" step or drybrush it on from below?

Very useful vid, thank you. I'll be using many of your tips on a figure I'm about to start. That Gothic Crimson is a gorgeous colour and I can think of several ways that I would use it, but I cannot find it on the Reaper site. Can you recall how you got hold of it please?

To me that's the sort of skin that they would have if the lived in very icey regions such as north of the wall in Game of Thrones.

At first the vid about "how to remove cleanly remove details", then the vid about painting crimson armor and now this. You are pushing me so hard to my Soulblight project im planning and i havent even finished my Ogors inspired by how to paint an army in 24h :D My wallet weeps with every new video^^

Say, since we are on the topic of skin: I got the AK Interactive Skin Ink and I don't really know what to do with it. It seems to be pretty much red. Did you have any experience with that? The Vallejo Skin Ink looks similar and you might have experience with that one?

Apparently gothic crimson is a special edition paint. Is there some other readily available color that can be substituted?

I've gained a incredible amount of knowledge from your videos thank you. What do you thin down your shades with?

Wonderful video, Vince! Going to try this out with my Hag/Slaughter Queen. May I ask, are any colours essential to this scheme, or could I go with rough Citadel/Army Painter/Vallejo equivalents?

Nice work, but i had hoped it would have been even more paler.

Maybee you can make a Video about colours and brands, waht kind of coulor inside like: pinky or bluish, more redish or cold and so on, and which colour near the same. And for waht you use them. A bit compressed Video. If you like.

Wow. Just wow!

I hope i'm in the right place, to ask your advice, on the best way to paint a sallow skin texture on a male face. John Hill.

Curious, I've investigated a few magnifiers, not 100% satisfied, what do you use?

Hot women, scantily clad with big hair and swords. It's like the 80s meet Frank Frazetta.

...but we’re gonna go a little farther...because...of course we are 👍🏻

great video! would love to know how you did the hair on the model if you havent already done a video on the topic :-)

The miniature looks amazing! How did you paint the light and shadow on the base to get that effect?

Great process, results and tutorial. When I try to glaze with light, pale tones it turns out rather chalky. What can I improve?

No matter how often i try this.. I am not able to achieve something far similar. I stripped this one Mini now almost 23 Times. It always keeps looking like a Clown

Awesome teaching video. But the out-of-focus really play havoc with my eyes

This is amazing! Gonna try to at least partly replicate this, once I get my hands on the new Daughters of Khaine warband for underworlds. Since these models are like half hair, any advice on how to tackle the very large plumes black of hair? I see atleast that youve worked in quite a bit of blue, to make it more interesting & that youve made some areas very bright. Any advice?

Hey, Vince, I'm looking to add a new paint line into my local game store. We currently have the full complement of GW, but I would like to offer something with a bit more quality as well. My current top 2 contenders are Warcolours and Gen 3 AK Interactive. Any insight between the two?

I wish I could see the work your doing better. Maybe zoom in on the mini?

Aw man, every brand of color in this video, except vallejo is not available for a sensical price around here.

Wow I've never been so early

when will you learn to focus your camera

Blurry camera mate :/