Do you have to remove the hair from the cat before using?
JBCA Do you have to remove the hair from the cat before using?
PLEASE!!!!!!
Some of us think in pictures...
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
David Popp's article "Figure Painting 101" was in MR's September 2009 issue. It's probably the article you're remembering, since it has the inside-out, step-by-step method you mention.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Batman:
I have painted many figures over the years, I've used cheap brushes and the better brushes. I have purchased them from Hobby Lobby, Wal-Mart, Lowes; the better brushes do a much better job in painting those tiny figures.
These are a combination of already painted and my hand painted figures. The two closer fingures are already painted.
I use small burshes, covering the faces and hands with flesh tone, then painting multiple figures with blue, then red, brown, etc at one time. I use all kinds of paints, all acrylics from Testors, Apple Barrel, Railroad colors, you name it. I will leave them on the sprues or make a clear plastic base out the window material from kits. Finally I may give them an alcohol/India ink wash to add detail.
These are all handpainted below.
Here you can see the clear plastic bases that I super glue to the feet as well as the bicycle of the figures.
I buy the unpainted bags of people from Walthers. There are other companies that sell them as well. It is cheaper and I actually enjoy painting the figures. I use very samll brushes for belts, purses, shoes, etc.
Anyway, that what I do.
Thanks,
Robert Sylvester, WTRR
One other suggestion about painting people: This is part of the hobby that non-model railroaders can relate to, so consider involving them. When I need to paint people I invite my wife to join in and we have a ball - Great conversation and lots of laughs. I spread out butcher paper on a regular table and get the supplies together and then we paint until we run out of time. I can imagine this as being a lot of fun with kids, too.
Just don't be too picky about the other person's speed or results and things should go well.
By the way, tree building can be a similar social modeling activity.
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.