Hey, I just picked up Beorn as I love the sculpt but i'm very inexperienced when it comes to painting flesh. How do I paint him? I usually just basecoat and wash but somehow I think that would end up looking real muddy on such a fleshy bloke.

Thoughts?
VG

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"Dark have been my dreams of late."

GW have some dry paints (paints that you can drybrush on) which might work nicely, but you would have to do a layer or two before dry brushing. Another way is to layer. As in this way, you paint a basecoat, highlight, highlight again or however many times you feel you need to.

If you don't feel like doing several layers, I suggest you put a basecoat on, wash a wash in the recesses and folds. Leave it like this, or give it a highlight (drybrush maybe?) or just a simple layer.

Hope this helped

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I started to walk around without shoes...

It sort of then became a Hobbit

When I did the Trolls (themselves a large, open area of human-ish shade skin) I simply base coated white, and used a wash of Reikland Fleshshade. Perhaps that, followed by highlights in a more natural human skintone might work for Beorn?

Nearly finished Beorn, this is what I did for the flesh

1st coat is GW Dwarf flesh
A brown wash
Paint again with Dwarf flesh leaving a little brown wash in the recesses
Mix Dwarf Flesh with Elf flesh and paint raised areas and muscle groups
Gradually add more elf flesh to the mix until you are just using elf flesh
I also use a little Vallejo blending medium to help slow drying down and blend layers of lighter paint.

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Harfoots-The first of the Hobbit people to cross over the Misty Mountains and enter Eriador.

VG, its still the same as ever.
Basecoat, wash, basecoat again on higher details then add white or a lighter tone to the basecoat and continue to highlight the ridges & peaks like brows, cheeks, chins.
Very fine dashes really accenuate things like wrinkles and are essential in making it look like there is not one flat coat, even after highlights.

I think this is actually one model you could get away with just washing the skin and having a dirty look, which is what GW have done by the looks of it. They haven't put enough chest hair on the actual sculpt. I would give it a try to just do some mostly vertical streaks of brown with a very fine brush and give it an extra wash but on the hairy sections only. Just make sure that you leave gaps between the individual strokes as the wash will help cover it up.

I just saw harfoots post - very nice. Just what I am trying to say. Keep it thin when layering!

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