By Joseph Forster

The African Warrior is a strong native unit that pops up as a support unit in several European and Native factions and forms the core of the Black Caribs faction (which functions like a Native faction).

These are nice models that have a real presence on the board and they’re fun to paint.

My challenge for these models has been settling on a skin tone that I’m happy with. The various mixes of Citadel and Vallejo tones I’ve worked have either been unsatisfactory or too much trouble so I cheated and bought a couple sets of African skin tone paints from WarGames Foundry.

I’ll be using their African Skin Tone trio of paints and I will compare the results with the Dark African skin tones at the end.

Step 1 – Prep and Prime

There’s a lot of flash to take off and plenty of parts to carefully reshape. You can find some more pointers on preparing the minis in my Preparing Minis post.

I use the zenithal priming method for priming.

Step 2 – Base Coats

I started with the skin tone but I’m taking two different approaches. On the two closer models I started with a base of the Foundry African Flesh Shade tone and on the other two models, I started with the mid-tone African Flesh.

I used this African Flesh set of paints.

To see how Joseph finishes this guide, check out the rest of his post here!

To see and learn more about Native American units