Hi,

Next on my list is Leia, and I was wondering how to approach it in terms of getting that very subtle difference in shade between the white jumpsuit and cream body warmer...

It depends how serious you want to be. A bit of yellow mixed in the white can be a good way. Then highlight with white. I probably shade with a gray as well

Sepia glaze can work over white as well. Then a bit of darker glaze/ controlled wash for the shades. Then just highlife with white agen

I used a white base coat, then mixed up some screaming skull/white for the coat, some ushabti/white for the bodysuit, her boots were the next shade up from Administratum; Thinned agrax as a selective wash, thinned nuln for the boots, then built up with the original mix. Seems to be the Sorastro stratagem for painting.

The gun was the usual mechanicus/black with ledbelcher dry brush and nuln wash and touches of steel for 'pop'.

I can't seem to put a picture up to show. But she turned out OK.

You could lighten down some Vallejo Game Color Bone White for the body warmer. It has a lovely yellow/brown tint to it, and mixed 50:50 with Ivory or White would give look you are seeking, IMO. Personally, I would base that part (and boots i believe) with Bone White and gradually lighten the quilted sections up, leaving the Bone White in the recesses.

I mixed some Screaming Skull with some White. Did a perfect job for me.

I used this reference photo:

This is how mine turned out:

i used rakath flesh as the off white colour and that works really well

I hand mixed all the colors here from the following paints:

Citadel:

-Flash Gitz Yellow

-Mephiston Red

-Abbadon Black

Army Painter:

-Matt White

-Barbarian Flesh

Vallejo:

-70.846 Mahogany Brown

-70.963 Medium Blue

-72.050 Cold Grey

I also used a black ink wash and a flesh shade ink wash.

My paint job looks a lot better when you realize that the picture at its native resolution shows Leia at about six times the size of the actual mini.