Insights into painting figures please

On 07/10/2005 21:08, Wolf Kirchmeir wrote,

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Thanks muchly for this link, very nice. Didn't think it had been done, so didn't google. You should _always_ google - you never know what may turn up!

For painting fine details on figures, obtain some UNCOLORED toothpicks at the grocery store. You can use an Xacto type knife to make some real sharp points on the toothpick. Then, use it like a pen - dip it into your detail color and apply it to the figure.

Good luck.

Dennis

what a bloody brilliant idea!

Just went and got some

Thanks

Steve

If you can find the round tooth picks, the point might be fine enough as it is.

Branchline Modeller issue 2 (aka The Australian Jornal of Railway Modelling) has a good article on painting figures, refer to

Michael S.

thanks - will see if I can track the article down

Steve

In the days when friends & I used to paint lead D&D figures, our last step was a black wash over all the colors. It really highlights the folds and shadows.

On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 21:19:39 +1000, "mindesign" shared this with the world:

The painting techniques that the others have posted are a great collection, and the only thing I would add is to remove the figures from the sprues,and clean up the flash before you paint them.

This is also a good time to add or remove carried objects (luggage,tools,etc), re-pose arms and legs, or any other modifications you want to do. IIRC, there are usually a few clones in any of the larger packs of figures. (of course it might be fun to have one village populated with 40-50 of the same figure, just painted differently -- fun in a weird science kind of way)

After removing figures from their sprues, I drill a small hole in the bottom of one of their feet, and glue a short piece of steel wire into it. This acts as a painting handle, and a method of anchoring the figure to the layout once they are ready to go "on stage"

Kent

bloody brilliant suggestions!

BTW - I don't know how many folks here would be familiar with the Weird Science reference

:)

but of course I am - in fact I had just bought my 928 when that film came out

Cheers

Steve

I thought the crew died on the clock and the penguins left before the replacement crew got there.