Ganging up on Tank Figure Painting

[Panzermechaniker]

Those came out great. Makes painting a tank seem very easy in comparison but the figures make such a difference if you pull painting them off

[Herr Dr. Professor]

Thank you for being supportive, gentlemen. So what did I do yesterday evening? Yep, I worked on one of the faces a bit more. No big change, I just wanted to get rid of the Technician's chin wound. (It must have happened before I put on the last flat clear coat.)

[Kaczor]

My attempt at painting a Soviet tankman. I still can't paint leather jackets properly and it looks like a big black blob

[Herr Dr. Professor]

This Dragon figure of Otto Skorzeny is the first plastic figure I have tried. The casting is not of the detail as some fine 3D. Separate, delicate, small details (e.g. parts of his machine gun) crumbled as I gently sanded off heavy sprue connections.

I started with oils for the face, but perhaps I just don't have the right technique. Oils can be readily mixed for shades and tones, but even when left to dry for a week, the oils lift when another coat is added. To get a smooth finish, free of brush strokes, I needed to thin the oils quite a bit, exacerbating the problem of painting lifting on subsequent coats. After three re-starts with oils, I went back to acrylics. This face has six or more different tones and shades, but they hardly show. I must be too tentative.

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Some background on this not-particularly nice guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Skorzeny
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Sasso_raid

And a photo of him from WWII, before his work for other notorious dictators:

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