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Repainted:
Thanks for your response guys, this will be fun for me and a challenge for my English skills.
Have you chosen your figure yet? I have and my obvious choice is the bust from Stormtrooper “Josef Mai”. The reason for choosing this is simple, it´s the only figure I have in hand today and if I´ll have to order a new one (54mm) you have to wait and we don’t want that.

So preparing the figure for painting is the game now. There´s some stuff to know here, first I´ll often give my figure a good bath with soap and water to get rid of any kind off grease from the moulds. As you maybe know the figure is casted in silicon moulds and when the moulds get older they dry up and one way to get more money out of a mould is to give more oils to soften the silicon.
With fresh moulds you get fine mould lines around the figure and with older moulds you got heavier mold lines. So here´s the tip, remember get the figure when its new on the market if you want a good one almost every figures is short productions and as long the master and mould are workable copies off the master hits the market.
On my bust there is some resin inlets and some bubbles to fix before the first primer is top go on. This will be fixed with some emery paper, needle files, and a good hobby knife.


 If you’re into a full figure you will need to drill a tiny hole in one off the feet and insert a short pin or paperclip. This pin or paperclip will give you to fix the figure on a pinvise or painting plinth. this is only for easy painting.
When the figure is painted and done this pin will secure the figure to the base.


Okay back to the bust again, when the bust is cleaned in soap and water give it the night to dry, then you can start the preparing it for primer. Any inlets or mould lines are/is removed gently work with your hobby knife and emery paper to get rid of the lines. If you trouble to find them give the figure a thin coat of primer and they will appear if they are there. As I mentioned before, a mix of grey and white Humbrol is a good colour to see and find these lines before you got the paints on the figure.

When all preparing is /are done give the figure a new thin coat of primer. This primer will hold the paint as a canvas for you to paint on.

The last tip for today is this
Say you have a figure where the painting skill is not up to your expectations. Here comes my best friend ordinary house hold pluming cleanser.

You can get this at your grocery store and with some hot water in plastic bowl add some cleanser to the water and mix it, you have a real good paint stripper here. Just be outside here or well ventilated areas and use rubber gloves from the pharmacy. In an hour get your figure back without the old paint, just restart the paint again. This works fine with humbrols and my guess is that you can find similar tricks for acrylics.

Enough for tonight folks, questions, critics and comments are welcome.
Best Regards
LarsaQ

Repainted:
Hi folks
I have prepared the bust and got it primed. The mix of Humbrol White 34 and grey 64 is dry and now we can paint. I will use these pics as guide for the putting in the shadows and highlight.


I told you earlier that I will use an airbrush for this bust and we start up first thing. So first up will be the Face and Jacket, because it will have the same base colour so why not fix them at the same time.
Painting the flesh
Painting the flesh on a figure many say it´s the hardest thing and I agree on that. It makes or breaks the whole figure. So a good role is to start with the face and hands first. If you’re not satisfied with the face you can always start over again, if this happens you won´t need to clean off everything. 
The colour I use here is a base for the flesh. Humbrol´s Flesh 61, Sand 63 and 29 Dark earth. I Mix these colours on estimated ratio 80%, 10% and 10%. This is not any exact, and that’s because you can’t use the same mix for every figure, you have to alter the base colour from figure to figure to get the skin tones to be at variance. Mixing in 63 and 29 into the 63 flesh will take away that brightness of the flesh 61 and helping you later on in the painting.
With this mix loaded in the double action airbrush, I´ll trim in the settings on the airbrush to give me fine lines and using a low pressure. Starting to cover up the face on the bust.



I use the remaining paint in the airbrush on the Jacket to. Giving the jacket a thin cover of the mix and pay attention for the highlights. By adding little 62 leather in to the mix I worked on the shadows on the jacket little more.
Taking care to not paint over the highlights.
Before cleaning up the airbrush I mixed in some black 33 into the mix and started to give the jacket black tone. So with this done the bust had to get dry so today Ill can take the first pics on it again so 
See u

LarsaQ

Des:
Thanks LarsaQ for the tip on an easy paint stripper, removing enamels without damaging the plastic can be quite difficult. The figure is looking good so far, what scale is it?

Des.

Repainted:

--- Quote from: Des on June 30, 2013, 11:42:06 AM ---Thanks LarsaQ for the tip on an easy paint stripper, removing enamels without damaging the plastic can be quite difficult. The figure is looking good so far, what scale is it?

Des.

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Hi Des, It's Stormtroopers Josef Mai in 1/9 scale so its a big one.Next updates will be up in a few  days.
Regards
LarsaQ

Mac:
Following this with great interest thank you.  :)

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