What step do you dread when painting figures?

[red tom]

After enjoying this hobby for over 40 years I am not afraid of anything when painting. If it doesn't turn out as I want then it no longer matters to me, just as long as I have enjoyed the experience. If someone else enjoys what I have produced that is a bonus as far as I am concerned. After all this is a solitary hobby.

 

[ChaosCossack]

Webbing, equipment and belts etc!

I'm with u on that as well. Once the flesh and uniform is done the equipment, Especially firearms (for me anyway) are really a chore... very finickety and time consuming for such small bits and pieces

Colin

 

[theBaron]

After enjoying this hobby for over 40 years I am not afraid of anything when painting. If it doesn't turn out as I want then it no longer matters to me, just as long as I have enjoyed the experience. If someone else enjoys what I have produced that is a bonus as far as I am concerned. After all this is a solitary hobby.

But that's like saying I play golf by myself, and I enjoy myself, even though I shoot a 200. Part of the enjoyment for me is that my results do look good, and that I appear to improve my technique with each successive project. I don't worry that anyone else enjoys my work, necessarily--that's why I don't really care to enter competitions. But I do want to do a good job, and if I don't, then that particular project isn't as much fun for me.

Prost!
Brad

 

[garyhiggins]

But that's like saying I play golf by myself, and I enjoy myself, even though I shoot a 200. Part of the enjoyment for me is that my results do look good, and that I appear to improve my technique with each successive project. I don't worry that anyone else enjoys my work, necessarily--that's why I don't really care to enter competitions. But I do want to do a good job, and if I don't, then that particular project isn't as much fun for me.

Prost!
Brad

How right you are!
Best wishes, Gary.

 

[theBaron]

What was I saying about painting faces? Here's an example:



Lincoln Wright's Scale120 kit of Gertie, for the Maschinen Krieger series. I gave her a black eye, trying to paint a pupil. I tried the pin/needle technique, to deposit a droplet of black, but it kept drying before I could touch it to her eyeball. So I tried to use a toothpick. The paint stayed wet, all right, and ran all over her face. D'OH. This is what she looked like, after cleanup with a piece of wet paper towel. Oh well, lesson learned. I've repainted the flesh base, in the meantime. Back up on that horse!

Prost!
Brad

 

[T-34/85]

You could give her an eye patch. Seriously though, everything else looks real good
Tom

 

[garyhiggins]

What was I saying about painting faces? Here's an example:



Lincoln Wright's Scale120 kit of Gertie, for the Maschinen Krieger series. I gave her a black eye, trying to paint a pupil. I tried the pin/needle technique, to deposit a droplet of black, but it kept drying before I could touch it to her eyeball. So I tried to use a toothpick. The paint stayed wet, all right, and ran all over her face. D'OH. This is what she looked like, after cleanup with a piece of wet paper towel. Oh well, lesson learned. I've repainted the flesh base, in the meantime. Back up on that horse!

Prost!
Brad

Honestly Brad, eyes are easy, it's just the damn D.T.'s that are getting to me!
Best wishes, Gary.

 

[theBaron]

Honestly Brad, eyes are easy, it's just the damn D.T.'s that are getting to me!
Best wishes, Gary.

Yeah, I should have had a modeling beer before starting the session. A little Franziskaner always calms the nerves and steadies the hand.

The cleanup session is underway!

Prost!
Brad

 

[butchyboy73]

I'm really glad you guys have all come clean about this looking at a lot of the stuff on here I feel there's hope for me yet My biggest dread is starting g a project then making a pigs ear of it

 

[garyhiggins]

After being involved in this thread for four pages now, I'm begining to reach a conclusion: we're all afraid of everything all of the time!!! As the song goes" theyre coming to take me away Ha! Ha!"
Best wishes, Gary.

 

[butchyboy73]

After being involved in this thread for four pages now, I'm begining to reach a conclusion: we're all afraid of everything all of the time!!! As the song goes" theyre coming to take me away Ha! Ha!"
Best wishes, Gary.

Ah no! My other big dread! Not the padded cell, strait jacket and back-to-back episodes of Eastenders again, doctor! It's not fair, I really am Napoleon! Honest!