TAMXF15 - Tamiya - Flat Flesh Acrylic - 10mL Bottle

TAMXF15 - Tamiya - Flat Flesh Acrylic - 10mL Bottle

Tamiya XF-15 Flat Flesh is one of the most widely used colours in the entire Tamiya acrylic range — a warm, peachy mid-tone flesh with a flat finish, serving as the standard base coat for exposed skin on 1/35, 1/48, and 1/72 scale figures across virtually every subject and nationality. It is a well-balanced, versatile starting point: light enough to allow washes and shadow glazes to define facial features and hands without muddying, and warm enough to read as convincingly natural skin under scale lighting. At 1/35 scale it is typically used as the base layer before oil paint shadow and highlight work; at smaller scales such as 1/72 it can often carry the full skin representation with only a brown wash applied over it, as surface area limits the viability of multi-layer highlighting. XF-15 is specifically called out as the flesh base coat in Tamiya's own kit painting instructions across their entire 1/35 figure catalogue, making it the natural first choice for any modeller working from Tamiya kit instructions.

Tamiya Acrylic paints are a hybrid acrylic formula built on water-soluble resin — they can be thinned with water, isopropyl alcohol, or lacquer thinner, and clean up easily with water before curing. When thinned with Tamiya Lacquer Thinner, the paint lays down faster, dries harder, and bonds more aggressively to the substrate. The hybrid resin chemistry means the paint film remains slightly soluble after initial drying — subsequent brush strokes can reactivate and lift the layer below if applied without restraint. For this reason, airbrushing is strongly recommended for large surface coverage. Brush painting is workable for detail and touch-up work, but requires a gentle, deliberate stroke and a fully cured base layer. See our Tamiya Acrylic vs. Enamel vs. Lacquer guide for a full breakdown of paint type differences.

• 1/35 WWII Allied infantry figures — base coat for exposed faces, hands, and neck on US Army, British, Commonwealth, and Soviet infantry figures; applied first before clothing colours, then worked over with diluted Burnt Umber or Raw Sienna oil paints to define eye sockets, nasolabial folds, and shadow under helmet brims
• 1/35 WWII German figures — standard skin base for Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS tank crew, infantry, and command figures across the full range of Tamiya, Dragon, and Zvezda 1/35 kits; lightened with XF-2 Flat White for highlight passes on cheekbones, nose bridge, and chin
• 1/35 WWII Japanese figures — skin base for IJAAF and IJNAF aircrew, and IJA infantry; at 1/35 scale the warm tone of XF-15 sits well as a starting point for Japanese skin tones when slightly deepened with a drop of XF-10 Flat Brown before washing
• 1/48 aircraft figures — pilot and crew figures for single-seat fighter kits; XF-15 applied undiluted to small face and hand areas on cockpit crew in 1/48 Tamiya Spitfire, Zero, P-51 Mustang, and Fw 190 kits, with a single brown wash sufficient to define features at this scale
• 1/72 figures — overall skin finish requiring only a brown wash over XF-15 to create convincing results at the reduced scale, where multi-step highlighting is impractical; suitable for the full range of 1/72 WWII infantry sets from Airfix, Italeri, and Revell
• Mixing palette — XF-15 serves as the warm flesh component in a wide range of custom skin mixes: darkened with XF-10 Flat Brown or XF-64 Red Brown for Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, or Asian complexions; lightened with XF-2 Flat White for Northern European or highlight passes; desaturated with XF-19 Sky Grey for cold-weather or shock pallor effects on winter-theatre figures
• Non-figure applications — interior flesh tones on life preserver vests, medical equipment, and anatomical diorama elements; also used as a warm highlight mix into sand and buff colours on desert vehicle weathering

For full Tamiya paint colour references and modelling compatibility charts, visit our Tamiya Paint Colour Chart — Complete Guide for Scale Modellers.

Thin and airbrush with Tamiya Lacquer Thinner, Mr. Color Thinner, or Mr. Color Leveling Thinner.

• 10ml glass jar
• Part of the Tamiya Acrylic paint range