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HERMAN BIX wrote:The one on the left looks like Monty !!
You sure that ones not for a Grant project !!

silversurfer1947 wrote:M. E. Clifton James was the actor who was Monty's double, both in real life and in the film where he played himself.

Herr Dr. Professor wrote:Thank you for the kind words, Eric, a.k.a. EAO. However, my figure painting skills are by trial-and-error and dumb luck and you overrate me. Oh, heck, it feels good .

Here's my two cents/zwei Pfennig/of advice. First: I recommend this thread for great advice and helpful links. Second: I also found that practice-practice-practice.... Third: while I pick up a snip of advice here and there, I find that I have created some abominations unto nature until (and even after) I realized that I had to find my own combination of tricks.

The HengLong/Taigen Pänzermanner are hard to paint because they are quite crude. Once I overcame my hesitation about trying to paint more expensive figures, I turned to the SOL Model ones and actually found it easier to paint them because of the crisp detail.

For the Waffenfarbe, I use Vallejo 70-802 Sunset Red. It may not be the most accurate, but my eyes are not longer accurate. Over forty years ago, I actually make a bit of cash matching automobile paint chips in the old Testors colors for people who wanted to build a model of a specific car in a specific color. That ability faded (puns almost always intended) about three decades ago.

Thanks, HDF. My,.... but you do have more titles in your screen name, than Idi Amin gave himself

Er..well...on checking the accuracy of that observation, I'm afraid you come woefully short of Idi's self-awarded titles and awards, he was, according to himself:
"...His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hajj Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of all the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular. ...". Most are totally laughable, but awarding himself the VC (our 'Medal of Honour equivalent, to the German 'Knight's Cross', with oak leaves and diamonds) still annoys me.

You make some interesting points there, Dok. Clearly, no matter how well one paints-even after practice, practice and then more practice, if the figure being daubed isn't that great to begin with, (a cheapo Heng Long torso, for instance) the result is likely to disappoint. But at least it's worth working on.
I now have a superior quality British figure to work on, once I've finished my 'apprenticeship' on the three Tamiya figures I've tentatively begun with.

Do post your handiwork here, by the way, HDF The more varied a thread is, the more useful it's likely to be as resource.