Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
In this video series, I'll continue with a tutorial on painting figures' faces, this time looking at painting flesh and skin, including tone and texture.
This is Young Miniatures excellent 1/10th scale resin bust of a Lewis Gunner WW1 Ref: 1875. It was purchased from historexagents.com and I painted it a few years ago in 2018.
Part 1 covers painting the eyes and you can watch it here:
youtu.be/yIpKj33kHkc?si=BAWNBtRPluLHzyf0
I used acrylics, as per usual, and this time I was using Lifecolors. Thanks to airbrushes.com for their long standing support and for providing the paints. Get your Lifecolor references from them.
Not being a figure "expert" this video is designed for beginners and shows all my different experiments and techniques in the real of figure painting.
In the video I mention these films which may be useful:
youtu.be/WttUK2xVKP8?si=IIKFEXTQwX0ZE6pF
youtu.be/wk2kWgOQUKE?si=SZ3sdvJLyjFZ_6LT
Here are the chapter markers which may be especially useful as this is a very detailed step-by-step video.
Enjoy!
00:00 Introduction & recap of last episode
00:32 Flesh painting begins - Lifecolor Flash Paint Set CS13
00:54 Flesh - Lifecolor Flesh First Base & some Flesh 2nd Base
01:50 Stage shots so far
02:07 Flesh shadows - Lifecolor Flesh Second Base
03:32 Stage shots so far
03:41 Flesh mid tones using Lifecolor Flesh First Base
04:08 Painting fingers and some items of uniform
04:32 Painting the head - turtle next sweater
05:09 Stage shots so far
05:25 Painting the leather strap
05:46 Progress stage shots so far
05:52 Painting hands, more shadows, Liefcolor Flesh 2nd Base added to Flesh First Base
06:30 Midtones and highlights - Flesh First Base used neat
08:00 Some shadow and weave detail added to sweater
08:09 Framing the eyes with Flesh 2nd Shadow
09:32 Shadow areas painted in Flesh 2nd Shadow
10:41 Highlights and midtones over shadow and around eyes
11:00 Highlight mix applied - Flesh First Base applied neat over Second Shadow on eyelids
12:44 Painting the lips
13:35 Other shdaow areas (nostrils, ears etc.)
14:12 More mid tones with FlesthFirst Base, smoothing out near shadows
15:12 Stage shots so far
15:24 Painting Flesh highlights using Flesh First Light in mix.
18:48 Watching highlight start to emerge in real time
19:22 Stage shots so far
19:56 Adding additional highlights around head
20:28 Close ups of stage shots so far
21:06 Brighter highlights with Flesh Second Light
21:36 Time lapse of second highlights
23:10 Stage shots so far
23:26 Warmer washes over highlights
25:20 Neatening up with base mixes and mid tones
26:24 Stage shots so far
27:04 Painting hands
27:21 Further blending with highlights and mid-tones with very thin coats
30:08 Adding mud and dirt - Lifecolor Tyre Black
32:59 Red and colour added to cheeks
34:00 Stage shots so far
34:30 Lifecolor Liquid Pigments for mud and dust specks
34:53 Lifecolor Leather Set CS30
35:50 Painting hair (and eyebrows)
36:16 Attaching helmet with superglue
36:43 Summary and outro
37:10 End credits
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We're also on Twitter:
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Copyright © 2025 Scale War Machines All Rights Reserved
In this video series, I'll continue with a tutorial on painting figures' faces, this time looking at painting flesh and skin, including tone and texture.
This is Young Miniatures excellent 1/10th scale resin bust of a Lewis Gunner WW1 Ref: 1875. It was purchased from historexagents.com and I painted it a few years ago in 2018.
Part 1 covers painting the eyes and you can watch it here:
youtu.be/yIpKj33kHkc?si=BAWNBtRPluLHzyf0
I used acrylics, as per usual, and this time I was using Lifecolors. Thanks to airbrushes.com for their long standing support and for providing the paints. Get your Lifecolor references from them.
Not being a figure "expert" this video is designed for beginners and shows all my different experiments and techniques in the real of figure painting.
In the video I mention these films which may be useful:
youtu.be/WttUK2xVKP8?si=IIKFEXTQwX0ZE6pF
youtu.be/wk2kWgOQUKE?si=SZ3sdvJLyjFZ_6LT
Here are the chapter markers which may be especially useful as this is a very detailed step-by-step video.
Enjoy!
00:00 Introduction & recap of last episode
00:32 Flesh painting begins - Lifecolor Flash Paint Set CS13
00:54 Flesh - Lifecolor Flesh First Base & some Flesh 2nd Base
01:50 Stage shots so far
02:07 Flesh shadows - Lifecolor Flesh Second Base
03:32 Stage shots so far
03:41 Flesh mid tones using Lifecolor Flesh First Base
04:08 Painting fingers and some items of uniform
04:32 Painting the head - turtle next sweater
05:09 Stage shots so far
05:25 Painting the leather strap
05:46 Progress stage shots so far
05:52 Painting hands, more shadows, Liefcolor Flesh 2nd Base added to Flesh First Base
06:30 Midtones and highlights - Flesh First Base used neat
08:00 Some shadow and weave detail added to sweater
08:09 Framing the eyes with Flesh 2nd Shadow
09:32 Shadow areas painted in Flesh 2nd Shadow
10:41 Highlights and midtones over shadow and around eyes
11:00 Highlight mix applied - Flesh First Base applied neat over Second Shadow on eyelids
12:44 Painting the lips
13:35 Other shdaow areas (nostrils, ears etc.)
14:12 More mid tones with FlesthFirst Base, smoothing out near shadows
15:12 Stage shots so far
15:24 Painting Flesh highlights using Flesh First Light in mix.
18:48 Watching highlight start to emerge in real time
19:22 Stage shots so far
19:56 Adding additional highlights around head
20:28 Close ups of stage shots so far
21:06 Brighter highlights with Flesh Second Light
21:36 Time lapse of second highlights
23:10 Stage shots so far
23:26 Warmer washes over highlights
25:20 Neatening up with base mixes and mid tones
26:24 Stage shots so far
27:04 Painting hands
27:21 Further blending with highlights and mid-tones with very thin coats
30:08 Adding mud and dirt - Lifecolor Tyre Black
32:59 Red and colour added to cheeks
34:00 Stage shots so far
34:30 Lifecolor Liquid Pigments for mud and dust specks
34:53 Lifecolor Leather Set CS30
35:50 Painting hair (and eyebrows)
36:16 Attaching helmet with superglue
36:43 Summary and outro
37:10 End credits
Give us a like:
facebook.com/ScaleWarMachines
We're also on Twitter:
twitter.com/ScaleWarMachine
And Pinterest:
pinterest.co.uk/scalewarmachines
Copyright © 2025 Scale War Machines All Rights Reserved
