What color (again)
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Well as long as the topic is wandering off into ethnicity and genetics and whatnot I guess I might as well toss the following fly into the ointment: 
Africa is a huge continent. It’s what? 3? 4 times the landmass of the US? By comparison Europe is out right puny. On this huge chunk of land you have MANY different people groups with different skin tones and other physical features. For example, many of the people groups who live in the north eastern area of the content generally have lighter skin tones (the Masai mentioned above being an exception) than a lot of the people groups found in the Ivory Coast area (West Africa) who tend to have very dark sometimes almost black skin.
So saying you want an “African skin tone” really isn’t very descriptive and it’s probably more helpful to just say you want “almond colored skin”, “tanned skin”, “very dark skin”, “black skin” etc. instead.
Just thought I’d toss that out.
Africa is a huge continent. It’s what? 3? 4 times the landmass of the US? By comparison Europe is out right puny. On this huge chunk of land you have MANY different people groups with different skin tones and other physical features. For example, many of the people groups who live in the north eastern area of the content generally have lighter skin tones (the Masai mentioned above being an exception) than a lot of the people groups found in the Ivory Coast area (West Africa) who tend to have very dark sometimes almost black skin.
So saying you want an “African skin tone” really isn’t very descriptive and it’s probably more helpful to just say you want “almond colored skin”, “tanned skin”, “very dark skin”, “black skin” etc. instead.
Just thought I’d toss that out.
Sand Rat
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Good point DO. I\'ve got pictures somewhere (damn that anthro degree) taken by the Boers in South Africa in the late 19th Century of three African sisters, from the same parents - one was extremely dark almost black, one was a good moderate brown, and the third was pale enough to be caucausion in skintone. So there can be variation in coloration even between siblings living in the same region, which makes painting minis all that much more fun.
DennisMech
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AND is useful as a cunning excuse as to why your dark skin tones look so shoddy!
vincegamer
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How can Spaniards not have any Europea relatives???
Well, in the latter case it\'s probably because she was Greek.
Cleopatra (and all of the Ptolomaic Pharos) was descended from one of Alexander\'s Macedonian generals.
(yes, I know Macedonia is not Greece but we still call Alex Greek)
So maybe we should paint minis like ancient Myceneans? Men are red and women are yellow!lol
hehehe...
Vince, you are gonna make one sh*t hot lawyerlol
If you weren\'t on another continent, and if I could afford you, you\'d be the man for me
Talking of things (vaguely) legal....
@Steelcult: \"Rat writs, writ for a rat...\"
gotta be The Duke...Shame about everyone else in that film...specially that hideous female.:bouncy:
Vince, you are gonna make one sh*t hot lawyerlol
If you weren\'t on another continent, and if I could afford you, you\'d be the man for me
Talking of things (vaguely) legal....
@Steelcult: \"Rat writs, writ for a rat...\"
gotta be The Duke...Shame about everyone else in that film...specially that hideous female.:bouncy:
vincegamer
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I haven\'t read that series. Venus books were my bag. Having just read The Wizard of Oz for the first time, I\'m guessing the Mars races were based on Baum\'s masterpiece.
Sand Rat
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Not to hijack the thread, but . . . . .
Oddly enough, one of the few Burroughs series I havent read is the Venusian one - I\'ve read John Carter of Mars, Pellucidar, Caspak, and the first four Tarzan novels. I probably will get around to Venus one of these days though. Course it took about 20 years for me to get around to Tarzan, so it may take a while
@Finn - course its the Duke - I felt it was time for a change again, and the Duke just leaped to mind
Oddly enough, one of the few Burroughs series I havent read is the Venusian one - I\'ve read John Carter of Mars, Pellucidar, Caspak, and the first four Tarzan novels. I probably will get around to Venus one of these days though. Course it took about 20 years for me to get around to Tarzan, so it may take a while
@Finn - course its the Duke - I felt it was time for a change again, and the Duke just leaped to mind
I was watching the TV yesterday when \"Ladysmith Black Mambaso\" were on Classicfm tv channel. There was a continued close up on the lead singer and I couldn\'t help but assign Vallejo paints to his skin tone. (I know that\'s really, really sad!)
So my idea was; Beige Brown for the base coat, Leather Brown for the darkening tone and a mix of Leather Brown and Smoke for the shadows. With a wash of Smoke around the jaw/beard area and to define the hair separation around the rest of the face.
It\'s not a tried solution but it might help to start someone on the right track.
So my idea was; Beige Brown for the base coat, Leather Brown for the darkening tone and a mix of Leather Brown and Smoke for the shadows. With a wash of Smoke around the jaw/beard area and to define the hair separation around the rest of the face.
It\'s not a tried solution but it might help to start someone on the right track.
