Faces practice.

Earlier in the year I got to talking to the lady that runs the Co-op in the village and it turns out she is a Wargamer and paints her own figures and damned good they are too. That led on to my models an dioramas and that was that.

A couple of weeks ago, she introduced me to her brother we got chatting about figure painting and how I struggled with faces. Turns out that Bobby, is a professional figure painter and paints Wargaming characters for a living, so when he invited me to go along to his place for some tips, I jumped at the chance!!!!

Boy! what a master class that was. Check out his work HERE:

Been doing some practice following his tips and while I'm light years from his standard and I still have a long way to go, I feel I have made significant progress over my previous attempts:

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Just as Bobby predicted, the two larger faces were more difficult, as can be seen. LOL

That is nice work.....I like to have scale figures to add to a diorama or build...I still need more practice on that yet.

Good to see the pics Al.

One of my grandsons is heavily into wargame stuff and paints those grotesque figurines. Even I marvel at his precision with those tiny brushes and how he can even get enough paint into them to flow out.
Those heads are looking pretty good !
I have avoided figures in my modeling (except for Igor) Because they just usually don't end up looking realistic enough. I like my photos of models to generate comments like " That looks real", or, " I can't believe that's a model".
Nothing kills those comments like an unrealistic figurine.
I have seen some good ones in my day, and looking forward to see what you come up with.

Thanks for the kind comments guys. It's early days yet so I'm hoping to improve as I go along.

Going to take them to let my mentor see them on Wednesday.

The heads look good, even the larger ones. I've always had issues with realistic small scale face painting so many many thanks for your link.

Wow what an oportunity. Looks like the tips have paid off already, good stuff Al. I have always wanted to learn how to plaint figures and faces.

Looking good.

Keep it up Al, they are worth the effort. As we have said previously they make a huge difference to a diorama/vignette.