What would be the best colors..

[Jenfer]

To use on zombies?

[Vaitalla]

To use on zombies?

 

Can you be a little more specific? Are you asking about zombie skintones, specifically, or colors for gore? If you can specify then we may be able to help you better.

 

--Anne

[Jenfer]

All of the above. :D

 

I just got Zombie Dog Handler (50069) and Urban Zombies II (50066) and have been trying to think what colors should I get to paint them up.

 

These will be my first zombie figures and I am really excited about painting them and making them look the best I can.

 

Thanks

 

-Jen

[yani]

Reaper's Master Series paints have an Undead Flesh triad you could use.

[Inarah]

Yes, the undead flesh is very nice, also the bone triad for exposed bone. Bloodstain (not Blood) or Deep Red for dried caked on blood. One is browner than the other but can't remember which.

[Jenfer]

Thanks so much advise!!!

[awong]

I'm wondering if the amount of time the body spent underground prior to its zombification would effect its coloring. I've seen many minis that show a lot of decomposition on the bodies. That would imply to me more time in the ground...maybe a darker, almost tanned leather color. "Fresh bodies" or unburied ones might still look pristine...think of how a mortuary would make up the hands and face, but the body would exhibit the handiwork of the coroner's office.

 

You might try looking up movie make-up sites for really creative zombie work-ups and then just start playing with weird color combinations, splotchy, patchy skin tones...gore...lucky for me, I've never run into one so YMMV

 

Would love to see what you come up with though!

-AW

[Lastman]

I'm wondering if the amount of time the body spent underground prior to its zombification would effect its coloring. I've seen many minis that show a lot of decomposition on the bodies. That would imply to me more time in the ground...maybe a darker, almost tanned leather color. "Fresh bodies" or unburied ones might still look pristine...think of how a mortuary would make up the hands and face, but the body would exhibit the handiwork of the coroner's office.

 

You might try looking up movie make-up sites for really creative zombie work-ups and then just start playing with weird color combinations, splotchy, patchy skin tones...gore...lucky for me, I've never run into one so YMMV

-AW

 

CREEPY ALERT: The following information is disturbing. Don't read it.

 

Awong raises a good point. I crave realism so I looked up some pics about decomposition on the web that I wish I could erase from my memory. But I can't, so: The skin color of the living person would determine the color of the zombie. Definitely splotchy and patchy. Think bag of fluids without circulation. A fresh-ish Caucasian looks grey-green with very dark red-brown bruise-like splotches and yellow-green splotches. Gravity pulls the fluids toward the lowest point, so the position of the body and length of time in that position would determine the darkest-side, but the flow is not perfect so the splotches on the top-most side are remnants of fluids that didn't flow--like the last clumps of a Slurpee (or Icee) that are hard to get from the bottom of the cup even when you tip it. An African zombie would also look splotchy, but the dark splotches would be black, and the light splotches would still be yellow-green but with a thin glaze of dark brown flesh. The zombie dark flesh appears much darker than when alive.

 

I wonder if you could achieve zombie coloration in photoshop simply by removing all the red from the colors of a photo?

[Jenfer]

I have been looking around to see what colors I should get. I was hoping that were some zombie figures in the painted gallery section.

 

We shall see what I came up with bad or good.