Warhammer Colour Layer: Cadian Fleshtone | Games Workshop Paint

Description

Cadian Fleshtone is a warm, natural-looking flesh-coloured acrylic miniature paint designed for layering, highlighting, and adding realistic definition to Warhammer miniatures, tabletop gaming models, and hobby projects. Part of the Warhammer Colour Layer range from Games Workshop, Cadian Fleshtone provides a versatile medium flesh tone that is particularly effective for painting human faces, hands, exposed skin, and other details requiring warm, natural colour transitions.

With its distinctive combination of warm peach, pink, and subtle brown undertones, Cadian Fleshtone is an excellent choice for creating natural-looking skin on human and humanoid miniatures. Its balanced colour makes it particularly useful for developing smooth transitions between darker flesh basecoats and lighter highlights, helping painters create convincing facial features, muscular definition, and variations in skin tone.

As a Layer paint, Cadian Fleshtone is formulated for applying controlled layers of colour over an established basecoat. Layer paints are particularly useful for building depth, developing smooth colour transitions, and highlighting raised details without obscuring the miniature's sculpted features. Cadian Fleshtone can be applied over darker flesh colours to gradually develop brighter areas, creating a realistic appearance with clearly defined shadows and highlights.

Cadian Fleshtone is especially well suited to painting the exposed skin of Astra Militarum soldiers in Warhammer 40,000. Named after the legendary Cadian Shock Troops, this paint is a practical choice for the faces, hands, and other exposed skin of Imperial Guardsmen, officers, command squads, and supporting characters. Its warm flesh colour helps bring individual personality and definition to infantry miniatures, particularly those featuring detailed facial expressions and exposed skin.

For painters working on Cadian Shock Troops, Cadian Command Squads, Commissars, and other Astra Militarum characters, Cadian Fleshtone provides a useful highlight colour over deeper flesh basecoats. It can be applied to raised facial features such as the forehead, nose, cheekbones, chin, and ears, as well as the knuckles and muscles of exposed hands and arms. This technique helps create a convincing three-dimensional appearance while maintaining natural shadows in recessed areas.

Beyond the Astra Militarum, Cadian Fleshtone is useful for painting a wide variety of Warhammer 40,000 miniatures. It can be used for Space Marine heads without helmets, Imperial Agents, Inquisitors, Adepta Sororitas, Rogue Traders, Necromunda gangs, and other human characters. Its versatility makes it a valuable addition to any painting collection, particularly for hobbyists who regularly work on character miniatures featuring exposed faces and hands.

For Space Marine characters, Cadian Fleshtone can be used to highlight facial features and exposed skin, helping distinguish individual heroes and officers from their helmeted battle-brothers. Careful layering around the forehead, cheeks, nose, and jawline can create realistic facial definition, while subtle variations in colour can suggest age, weathering, and the hardships of prolonged military service.

Within Warhammer: The Horus Heresy, Cadian Fleshtone is equally useful for painting the faces and hands of Space Marine Legion officers, Solar Auxilia soldiers, Imperial Army personnel, and other human or humanoid characters. Its natural appearance complements a wide range of Legion colour schemes and military uniforms, making it particularly useful for painting exposed skin on command figures and character models.

For Warhammer Age of Sigmar, Cadian Fleshtone is an excellent choice for painting human warriors, heroes, wizards, and other inhabitants of the Mortal Realms. It is particularly useful for Cities of Sigmar soldiers, Freeguild officers, human characters, and other miniatures featuring exposed skin. Its warm colour can also be incorporated into fantasy creatures, humanoid monsters, and character models requiring natural flesh tones.

One of the greatest strengths of Cadian Fleshtone is its suitability for creating realistic facial highlights. Faces are often among the most important features of a miniature, drawing the viewer's attention and helping communicate character and expression. By carefully applying Cadian Fleshtone to prominent facial features while leaving darker tones in the recesses, painters can create convincing depth and definition even on relatively small models.

For a traditional warm flesh painting scheme, begin with a suitable basecoat such as Bugman's Glow. Apply a flesh-coloured shade to define the recesses around the eyes, nose, mouth, fingers, and muscles. Cadian Fleshtone can then be layered onto raised areas, leaving some of the darker base colour visible in the shadows. Additional highlights using a lighter flesh colour such as Kislev Flesh can create further contrast and definition.

Cadian Fleshtone is also particularly useful for painting muscular anatomy and exposed limbs. When applied to raised muscles, knuckles, shoulders, and other prominent surfaces, it helps emphasise the sculpted details of the miniature. This makes it an excellent choice for painting bareheaded warriors, fantasy barbarians, gladiators, and other figures featuring exposed skin.

The colour can also be incorporated into alternative flesh painting techniques. By combining Cadian Fleshtone with different base colours, shades, and highlights, painters can develop a range of warm skin tones. It can also be mixed with other compatible acrylic paints to adjust its warmth, brightness, or saturation, providing additional flexibility when painting individual characters and diverse collections of miniatures.

Beyond human skin, Cadian Fleshtone can be used for painting selected organic details on fantasy and science-fiction creatures. It is suitable for warm-toned flesh, ears, noses, exposed tissue, and other biological surfaces. When combined with reds, browns, purples, or paler flesh colours, it can contribute to a variety of creature and monster painting schemes.

For historical wargaming miniatures, Cadian Fleshtone is a practical choice for painting soldiers, civilians, commanders, and other human figures. Its warm medium flesh tone can be used across a wide range of historical periods, helping painters achieve consistent results on faces and hands while allowing additional shading and highlighting to distinguish individual models.

The paint is equally valuable for roleplaying miniatures and character models. Whether painting adventurers for Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy heroes, science-fiction characters, or individual display miniatures, Cadian Fleshtone provides a useful colour for creating natural-looking exposed skin and detailed facial features.

For best results, apply Cadian Fleshtone over a properly prepared and primed surface using a suitable hobby brush. Shake the paint thoroughly before use and thin with a small amount of water or an appropriate acrylic painting medium when necessary. Apply controlled, thin layers to gradually build colour and preserve fine miniature details. When painting faces, concentrate highlights on the forehead, bridge of the nose, cheekbones, chin, and other raised areas while retaining darker tones in the recesses.

Whether you're painting an army of Cadian Shock Troops, adding character to a Space Marine officer, highlighting the faces of Cities of Sigmar soldiers, or creating realistic skin tones on historical and fantasy miniatures, Warhammer Colour Layer: Cadian Fleshtone is a valuable addition to your painting collection. Its warm, natural colour and suitability for controlled layering make it particularly useful for hobbyists seeking convincing flesh tones and detailed facial highlights.

Features:

Product: Warhammer Colour Layer: Cadian Fleshtone.
Games Workshop Product Code: 22-36.
Manufacturer: Games Workshop.
Paint Range: Warhammer Colour.
Paint Type: Layer.
Colour: Warm medium flesh tone with peach and subtle pink undertones.
Water-based acrylic miniature paint designed for brush application.
Formulated for layering, highlighting, and building colour over an established basecoat.
Ideal for painting human faces, hands, exposed skin, and muscular details.
Particularly suitable for Astra Militarum and Cadian Shock Troops miniatures.
Useful for Space Marine characters, Imperial Agents, Adepta Sororitas, and Necromunda gangs.
Excellent for painting Cities of Sigmar soldiers and other human characters in Warhammer Age of Sigmar.
Suitable for Warhammer 40,000, Warhammer: The Horus Heresy, and Warhammer Age of Sigmar miniatures.
Provides a useful intermediate flesh tone when layered over darker colours such as Bugman's Glow.
Can be highlighted further using lighter flesh paints such as Kislev Flesh.
Useful for creating realistic facial definition, skin highlights, and natural colour transitions.
Suitable for historical wargaming figures, fantasy miniatures, roleplaying characters, and general hobby projects.

Painting Tips: For a classic warm flesh tone, begin with a basecoat of Bugman's Glow and apply a suitable flesh shade to define the recesses. Layer Cadian Fleshtone onto raised facial features, knuckles, muscles, and other prominent areas, leaving the darker base colour visible in the shadows. Apply smaller highlights with Kislev Flesh to the forehead, nose, cheekbones, chin, and other areas that naturally catch the light. For smoother skin transitions, use several thin layers and gradually reduce the highlighted area with each successive colour.

Please Note: This product contains one pot of Warhammer Colour Layer: Cadian Fleshtone acrylic miniature paint. Miniatures, brushes, and other painting accessories are sold separately. Shake thoroughly before use and replace the lid securely after painting to prevent the paint from drying out.

Specifications

SKU	99189951036
Barcode #	5011921197439
Brand	Games Workshop
Shipping Weight	0.1000kg
Shipping Width	0.050m
Shipping Height	0.050m
Shipping Length	0.050m
Shipping Cubic	0.000125000m3