Ganging up on Tank Figure Painting

[ColemanCollector]

Black with white technique from above acquired!

Mike.

[Herr Dr. Professor]

Here is more progress work from this evening on the two figures I show in my second post, page 1, above. Both figures will become tank riders, as they are Airborne WWII soldiers, perfect for hitching a ride on a Sherman or in a CCKW.

I mentioned that the driver had a steering wheel cast in his hand. So I have done some re-carving on his hands with the steering wheel carved out. I hope I can hide the flaws in my carving by positioning the hand, helping it with a touch of putty and a merciful cover of primer and paint.

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Then I returned to the figure with the MG to discover that the gun just was repaired fine but broke yet again in another spot. Clearly it is too delicate, and I certainly don't want to paint the figure and then find it broken yet again. So I had to carve the MG down off the side of the figure's right pants leg and out of both of his hands. I popped the stock of the machine gun off his pants leg and touched up the pants with a touch of carving and sanding. That was lucky.

It's not surprising, however, that in the process of carving the trigger finger away from the trigger, part of the finger broke off. So I have drilled the finger, inserted a pin as a kind of skeleton, and with lots of luck, I will make a new finger out of putty.

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There was more work to re-carve the two Airborne soldiers' four hands, but you get the idea.

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[PainlessWolf]

Good Morning,
That is some Fragile figure work there. Herr Doc! Good on you for attempting it.
Happy Friday!
Painless

[Herr Dr. Professor]

The black stuff is JB Weld. I wonder if I'll get away with these finger repairs.

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[Herr Dr. Professor]

I don't know why, but I keep going back to gray primer. It's what I have used on almost all other figures I have painted, despite others' good results from various other primer colors. Anyway...

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Consider the two flat-headed fellows in the photo, right up front (consorting with the enemy courier lady) and back left. What is the one up front to hold in his left hand? And might the one in back be pointing to a map? C'mon: let's have (workable) ideas.

[Herr Dr. Professor]

While the color reproduction here must be seriously compromised by the camera, time, and uploading here on RCTW (Sorry, Pantone),here's a sample of Vallejo flesh colors I made a few years ago. The names of the colors confuse me. Yes, "Basic Skin Tone" and "Sunny Skin Tone" make sense. But "Medium Flesh" is darker than "Dark Flesh." In fact, I was able to use "Medium Flesh" as a basis for a 1/18 Red Tails African-American pilot.

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[Rob59]

@ Mr.Biggs, I do have several of these Tankcommanders, all in different camo clothing and one in a white winter jacket (and all from Aliexpress BTW).
Here's one with the Autumn Camo Jacket.
The difficulty of painting faces mostly is depending on how detailed the figure's face is!
Most 3D printed figures, do come with a very smooth face, so this makes it (at least for me) a bit more difficult to get some emotions in them.
Of course this could be caused to my lack of experience in painting faces.
Resin figures however, mostly have a more worn mature look, they don't have the baby-face look, you know what I mean?
And I never prime my figures!
BTW, somewhere on here must be a little tutorial from me, about how to paint German Camo.
Maybe check it out, might help?




Here are 3 crew members of one of my Panzer IV's

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And another P-IV with some tankriders.



And one of my 4 KT's with Fallschirmjager. It is an older pic in which I hadn't made the brown camo on the turret correct yet! Now it is all the way it should be (but not in this pic.... )

[Ecam]

BTW, somewhere on here must be a little tutorial from me, about how to paint German Camo.
Maybe check it out, might help?

I think this is the one: viewtopic.php?t=36012

[Rob59]

Yes Eric, thnkz man!

[Herr Dr. Professor]

Oh, yes, Rob59, I noted your camouflaged Germans when you did those posts. I could see trying some as tank riders, but not this round, as the FAMO crew seems to be transporting some important documents held by the lady courier. (A better choice for such a job would be a Kübelwagen.) Faces are absolutely the most challenging part of painting 120 mm figures. I have a new Abteilung 502 oil set on hand which I am considering--just considering, no promises.