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Want to learn how to paint caucasian skin and expressive Warhammer faces with a lot of contrast that brings out every face muscle? Look no further. In this detailed and easy to follow tutorial you’ll learn how to step up your face game.

This tutorial assumes you have a good understanding of how to paint. Underneath each picture are the corresponding instructions. Each step shows the paint(s) I used during that step.

Paints you will need for this tutorial:
Tallarn Flesh [out of production, use Cadian Fleshtone or Reaper Master Series Fair Shadow]
Reikland Fleshshade
Bugman’s Glow
Kislev Flesh
Flayed One Flesh
Doombull Brown
Tuskgor Fur
The Army Painter Warpaints Matt Black [or Abaddon Black]
The Army Painter Warpaints Scar Tissue [or Tuskgor Fur mixed with Fulgrim Pink]
Vallejo Model Color White [or White Scar]

If you need to expand your paint collection to follow the tutorial, check out our partner stores Wayland Games and Element Games, which offer an amazing range of paint brands at decent discounts.

How to paint caucasian skin and faces – the Stahly way

Here is my way of painting caucasian skin and faces on Warhammer miniatures, perfectly suited for (Primaris) Space Marines, Astra Militarum, Stormcast Eternals, or any other human figure. When I paint faces, I want a lot of (brush) control, so I use a traditional approach of basecoating, washing, and layering. As usual, I like to use the smallest brush I can find, which is a Winsor & Newton Series 7M 000, but as long as the tip is sharp, with a little bit of practice any high-quality Kolinsky sable brush such as Redgrass Games’ RGG premium brushes will do.

1. Basecoat the flesh with a couple of thin layers of the old Citadel Foundation paint Tallarn Flesh. If you can’t get your hands on it, you can use Cadian Fleshtone, which is very similar. However, Cadian Fleshtone has a poor opacity and needs a lot of thin layers. I recommend getting Reaper Master Series Fair Shadow instead, which is also very similar to old Tallarn Flesh, but has a much better opacity than Cadian Fleshtone.

2. Wash the flesh with pure Reikland Fleshshade.

3. Paint the eye sockets with The Army Painter Matt Black [or Abaddon Black or your favourite black paint], then add two dots of Vallejo Model Color White [or White Scar or your favourite white paint] to the corners of the eyes. Use Bugman’s Glow to paint around the eyes in case you spilled over black. I wrote a detailed tutorial for my way of painting eyes, which I think is much easier than most other painting guides.

4. Bring out your base colour Tallarn Flesh [or Cadian Fleshtone or RMS Fair Shadow] and layer over the skin, leaving the recesses dark. The face above is an angry superhuman Space Marine, so we want a lot of contrast to bring out his expression. For female or younger faces, you want to be more subtle and layer the base colour all over the face, just leaving a few key places in the darker colour created by the wash, for example inside the ears, below the eye brows, and where the skin meets other parts of the model.

5. Next, highlight the face with Kislev Flesh. Kislev Flesh is a paint with a lower opacity, so build up the highlight in a couple of thin layers for a smooth transition.

6. Finally, highlight the face with Flayed One Flesh. Keep this only to the most pronounced features of the face, such as the brows, nose, ears, upper lip and chin. Take a look at the picture and let it guide you where to place the highlights. If you want to add additional shading later, use thinned coats of Bugman’s Glow and paint them directly into the recesses.

7. Paint the mouth with Doombull Brown. Carefully place a couple dots of Vallejo Model Color White [or White Scar or your favourite white paint] on the teeth. If you make a mistake, use Doombull Brown to correct it. Pick out the tongue with Tuskgor Fur and highlight with The Army Painter Scar Tissue [or mix Tuskgor Fur with a little bit of Fulgrim Pink].

And this is how to paint Caucasian skin and faces on your Warhammer miniatures. The rest of the model was painted as explained in this Black Templars tutorial. The hair was painted the same way as the worn leather demonstrated in steps 32 to 35.

To speed things up for army painting, you could start with Wraithbone primer and replace steps 1 and 2 with a single coat of Darkoath Flesh or Guilliman Flesh Contrast paint.

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial. If so, leave a comment or reaction below, and if you got any questions, leave them here so I can answer them for you.

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In this review, we’ll have a look at an army specific scenery piece, the Aeldari Webway Gates, originally released in 2018. This is an absolutely enormous Xenos terrain set, and an option for both Eldar Craftworlds, Aeldari Harlequins, and Drukhari Dark Eldar.

The set is currently only available from gamesworkshop.com, at an RRP of 30 / 29 Euro. Included is a Webway Gate comprising two identic sections.

Features

The comes with a black and white assembly guide and four sprues of plastic, two unique sprues included twice. There are no alternate builds or alternate parts, the set builds exactly what is depicted on the box art. When assembled, the Webway Gate is huge, with a height of 33 cm it towers even over a Wraithknight. Thankfully, the upper arches have push-fit connectors and can be removed for easier transport.

Miniatures Design

The Webway Gates nail the Eldar / Aeldari asthetique perfectly, with the rounded organic shapes, segmented plates, ribbed understructure, and two very Aeldari shaped statues that merge with the arches. The Gates are sculpted in pristine condition, like they would have been freshly erected by a Bonesonger. Personally, I would have preferred a more ancient look with some cracks and broken parts, similar to the small rubble pieces you find on a lot of Aeldari models such as recently released Howling Banshees.

Some parts of the model are based on older concept art by Roberto Cirillo, who no longer works for Games Workshop. I was only able to find this tiny little image, but you can see that the statues are almost exact copies of this concept art on the left.

The Webway Gates are very tall models with a height of 33 cm, they will likely be the largest and most dominating terrain piece on the table. I actually feel they are a bit too large, and if they would have designed them slightly smaller, then maybe there would have been some space on the sprues to include some alternate build options like another pair of heads for the statues or a broken arch.

Fun factor

The models assemble quickly, but because of the two part design, there are lot of unsightly seams that require filling with liquid green stuff or a similar plastic filler. In some areas, like on the legs between the statues, it’s almost impossible to remove the seams, so I just kept them.

Rules-wise, the Webway Gates add another deepstriking option to Craftworld armies. However, because of the large footprint and the fact that only a single unit per turn can enter the battlefield, their use is rather limited, so you might want to save them for narrative games or use them as standard terrain.

Value

By now, the Aeldari Webway Gates are direct only and thus only available from gamesworkshop.com or select retailers that stock direct only models. When this kit was released in 2018, the RRP was a reasonable 32,50 Euro / £ 25, and the model was available with discounts at our partner shops Wayland Games and Element Games, but with the recent price increase in 2020, the model’s RRP increased to 40,00 Euro / £ 30, which is quite a lot for a tall, but not very substantial kit.

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