Minifig skin colour - Yellow or Flesh?

I hate flesh tones for a lot of reasons. The foremost reason is that it's 'splitting up' LEGO collections. They don't match with existing pieces. That bugs me. The other reason is that in LEGOworld everyone is yellow. Everyone. Flesh-tones mess with that. Yellow people is part of LEGO's charm.

That said, the yellow clothing issue really isn't an issue at all. There are a few ways to deal with it that don't require fleshtones.

1.) Ignore it. Like with LEGO's nifty Aquasharks. As a kid, I never really even noticed the issue with Aquashark outfits, because I just knew that it was clothing, not bare skin. This issue is worse if a lot of the fig is yellow -- so sometimes ignoring the problem doesn't always work.

2.) Change the colour. When making a custom based on some costumed character that has a decent amount of yellow, you can change the colour. As long as you choose a colour that isn't drastically different, and doesn't clash with the rest of the figure's colouration, the colour change really won't harm the look of the figure, and won't detract and stop people from being able to see who it's supposed to be.

Take the classic costume of Wolverine for instance -- his yellow outfit with black tiger-stripes and blue accents. You could very easily change the yellow to orange. Now the colour doesn't match his skin-tone, but the style and look of the figure remains mostly intact.

3.) Change the yellow. Different from number 2, changing the yellow means using a different VALUE of yellow. LEGO yellow has red in it, which gives it a very particular value (colour-wise). If you use a different -shade- of yellow, via paint or decals or whatever, you can create the figure in yellow, without the yellow -matching- the skintone yellow.

Take Wolverine again. I could make decals for Wolverine, but instead of using M16, Y100 yellow, I could change the values, maybe use simple Y100 yellow, or maybe something brighter, maybe with some green tone to it. There are thousands of possible variations on any given colour. If you find the right variation which does not match standard LEGO yellow, you can create a fig with yellow, that doesn't appear to be naked.

Anyway. . . I hate flesh-tones and I can't see myself ever having occasion to use them. Now, if all LEGO had been produced in flesh-tones from the very beginning, that would be different. But I want my figs to match, and yellow is just more plentiful.

Oke so everyone loves yellow and hates flesh (so far). I don't I like both, I'm even not ashamed to say that i like the flesh tone even a little bit better. The only problem I have is: (and Damien mentioned it before) the yellow and flesh figs do not match, you can't put a fleshy and a yellowy in the same vignette, that looks just wrong! Also what I like about the flesh tone is that you can make a difference in races. I'm just wishing they come out with an indian/asian skin tone!

~BB

personally i really like flesh decal. i cant say why i just think minifigs look better with a flesh tone. i do use yellow heads if i have run out of flesh.

but ofcource when they first came out i hated them, that was what made lego stand out because it was different but the dflesh colour has grown on me.

nonsencenik

As you can see from my picture thingy I have edited the picture from LSW2,making the people yellow, because I hate the flesh minifigs so much.

I never use the flesh figs that I have. The uniqueness of Lego minifigs comes from the yellow "skin". With Harry Potter sets half of the figs are yellow, half are flesh. How can you mix them if you ever wanted to build some thing including a fig from each? And the same with Star Wars, when the Revenge of the Sith sets came out I never used any of the minifigs and I didn't buy so many sets as I would have if the figs were still yellow.

Whenever I see a yellow permant/marker pen in a shop I try it out, if it looks ok to use I buy it but I haven't found one yet that will actually work on minifigs. There are some great faces and bodies from the flesh minifigs but I won't use them until I find a suitable pen. I have heard that sharpies are good but I can't find one anywhere exept the internet. Hopefully my flesh figs can be yellow as they should have been.

I think that the rouge knights in KK3 look a bit silly too, I am confused at why Lego made it so that it looks as though they are exposing their arms and legs. They wouldn't exactly be very safe in a sword fight!