E-bay has doll "touch up" paint and other flesh tones available, but does anyone know the shade or hue that palmos and dye tubes come in?

Thanks.

I bought some flesh paint from bobbovent1 on ebay and it is a nice flat color to cover dye tubes. You might check him out .

I had an idea of going to a hardware store and having them match up my hand color to a flat paint. That way, its exact.

Go to a hobby store that specializes in military models. They usually have several types of flesh coloured paint in a range of hues.

Mannequin paint works very well also if you can find it

Forget paint... Use fabric bandaids! It looks great and adds a bit of extra "grip" so you feel more comfortable about not dropping it!

I have been using it on all of my "flesh colored" props for years and absolutely love it!

Lyndel

P.S. I usually cut away the actual "bandage" part of the bandaid and just use the sticky part of it. Works great!

Walmart has some different shades of flesh-colored, acrylic paints in the craft department.

Regan

I've been using an acrylic paint called "skintone" (Hobby Lobby) - but I really like the Bandaid idea. I'm going to give that a try. Thanks Lyndel.

Jim

Whomever was paid to design bandaids just took a shot in the dark with the flesh color. I don't know anyone with the same skin shade as a bandaid. Kind of an off coffee color. Completely left black people out of the choice for bandaid color. I also don't know anyone whose skin pores are laid out in a grid pattern. But if it works for you, go for it!

Use Camo paint and dust it with colored theatrical face powder when wet.

I use the camo paint also, but instead of the powder, I give it a spray of acrylic flat spray paint after the camo dries.

Dick Oslund's favorite was Testor's Desert Tan and he always had a few bottles on the road with him. He picked up little bottles whenever he could and used Q-Tips to apply the paint then let it air dry. I don't know if they still make it any more but I have a few down in my basement. Hobby shops that specialize in military models are good places to look for this

I have had really good luck with moleskin instead of bandaids. Much easier to work with as the sheets can be trimmed to any size. And the color is pretty good.