Thanks, Wabble!
Richard, you're giving me flashbacks when you say you're using enamels to paint uniforms. When I learned about oils I was using only enamels, acrylics hadn't come into the spot light yet. Once I saw the "blending" properties of the oils the enamels went into mothball and have pretty much been there ever since.
Thank you, Andres, mucho apreciado!
Thanks, Paul! The Highlander figures were incredibly well sculpted, total talent on the Vladimir's part. The Arnhem set as well, Stevo really did a great job on those, too! A very well-known point when it comes to painting figures is the sculpt. If it's done really well the brush pretty much does the work for you, otherwise it's a battle to the finsh.
Thanks, Peter.
Howdy, Richard. If I understand your question correctly, mixing, blending the oils on the figure is very straight forward. I learned to place the shadow tones in the creases, highlights on the ridges, then main tone on the main level first. Then with your brush blend the edges, mostly in a straight notion down, or across, but not always. You get the intermediate tones from the blending, not just having that specific tone already mixed. The blending creates these tonal variations. After you play with this on a large area it becomes easy to understand how it will work in very small tight spaces, the concept is the same. I hope this helps somewhat.
Yes, that is an advantage to smaller figs. If in doubt, one can always fall back on the old carpenter's rule, know how to hide your mistakes, HA! I think that's why they invented "sheetrock", the wonder board.
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