Viking Paint Question

[Bortig the Viking]

Hi all, a few simple questions but hopefully someone can help. Painting the head and wonder how some get the right effect with painting beards and what color to paint a tongue. Its hoping well and want to get this right, all being well pictures will get forthcoming.

 

[Airborne01]

Hi all, a few simple questions but hopefully someone can help. Painting the head and wonder how some get the right effect with painting beards and what color to paint a tongue. Its hoping well and want to get this right, all being well pictures will get forthcoming.

Mark, have you tried stippling with a very short bristled (cut-off & redundant) brush with basic skin tone loosely mixed with a muted muddy hair colour? Tongues need to be a very muted dusky pink - unless you're painting some slavering beastie!

 

[Tim Marlow]

For a tongue I’d try a mix based on Vallejo old rose. For a beard, what colour? Thinking Viking, you are probably looking at blonde. Therefore base coat in a mid brown, then highlight with Yellow Ochre. Highlight the hair volume though. Don’t try and paint every single hair, you’ll go mad.....

 

[Airborne01]

Tim, Not if you're hair is thinning at the same rate as mine is - mind you at 70-something having any hair is a blessing!

 

[Tim Marlow]

In my experience Steve sculptors either go full BeeGees or Yul Brinner. Never see much in between

 

[dave]

Personally I have found a lack of hair a distinct advantage with all the Barbers closed

For facial hair I have painted as usual, then stipple in an appropriate color. If a beard is moulded on, I paint in a mid color, wash with a darker colour, then dry brush in a lighter shade. That is for 28mm figures, for larger scales on a beard I would add more graduations similar To head hair.

 

[Tim Marlow]

That’s the technique I use when mass painting rank and file 28s as well Dave. I sometimes refine it further with a second high highlight to show the volumes. This is especially relevant on long flowing beards and hair....think Gandalf or Gimli!

 

[Airborne01]

Another consideration is the supposed age of the subject and the supposed situation; for example a senior officer may be expected to have grey in 'his' hair and (for example) a desert squaddie will often have sun-bleached hair and eyebrows.