Vallejo Squidmar Colour Dark Skin Set – 4 Paints
The Vallejo Squidmar Colour Dark Skin Set (74.305) brings together four model paints for creating darker skin tones on miniature figures. Combining tan, red and brown colours, the set provides a focused selection for painting faces, hands, arms and other exposed skin on character miniatures.
Painting darker skin tones involves balancing the main skin colour with shadows, highlights and subtle variations in warmth. The combination of Northern Tan, Gut Red, Rich Brown and Blackwood offers several colour options for developing these effects, from deeper recessed areas to lighter facial details.
Four Squidmar Colour Paints Included
The Vallejo Dark Skin Set contains the following four paints:
- Northern Tan (203) – Vallejo 74.203
- Gut Red (215) – Vallejo 74.215
- Rich Brown (240) – Vallejo 74.240
- Blackwood (243) – Vallejo 74.243
Rich Brown and Blackwood provide brown colours for establishing depth and contrast. Northern Tan introduces a lighter skin-related colour, while Gut Red offers a red tone that can be incorporated into warmer areas and selected facial details.
Painting Darker Skin Tones
When painting darker complexions on miniatures, the relationship between the base colour, shadows and highlights helps define the shape of the figure. Brown tones can establish the main skin colour, with darker sections used to emphasise recessed details.
Lighter colours can be applied selectively to prominent features such as cheekbones, foreheads, knuckles and raised muscles. Red tones may also be introduced into a painting scheme to create subtle differences in warmth.
The four included paints allow these colour relationships to be developed using a consistent selection.
Faces, Hands and Exposed Skin
Faces are often among the most detailed areas of a miniature. Small changes in colour around the eyes, nose, mouth and cheeks can make sculpted features easier to distinguish.
The Dark Skin Set is also relevant to painting hands, arms, legs and other exposed areas. Using related colours across these surfaces helps maintain a consistent complexion while allowing the placement of highlights and shadows to reflect the shape of each feature.
Character and Figure Painting
The colour selection can be incorporated into historical, fantasy and other figure-painting projects featuring darker skin tones. It is particularly useful when a character has several exposed areas that need to share the same overall complexion.
For groups of figures, the same four colours can be used in different proportions to introduce variation between individual characters while retaining a related colour palette.
Part of the Vallejo Squidmar Colour Range
The Dark Skin Set is part of the Vallejo Squidmar Colour range. Each paint has its own colour name, number and manufacturer reference, making the individual colours easy to identify.
Product Details
- Manufacturer: Vallejo
- Range: Squidmar Color
- Set name: Dark Skin Set
- Contents: 4 model paints
- Included colours: Northern Tan, Gut Red, Rich Brown and Blackwood
- Intended effect: Darker miniature skin tones
- Manufacturer reference: 74.305
Vallejo Squidmar Dark Skin Set 74.305 combines tan, red and brown colours for painting darker complexions, facial features and exposed skin on miniature figures.
