Figure painting figures with oils?

I think most who use oils only shade and highlight, over a base of the common enamal colors.  What I like to do is mix my oils a shade darker or lighter than I need then spike it with some of the base color I'm working with.  This not only aids color uniformity, it also helps it to dry quicker.  Here are a couple of my kits, so painted. You'll notice the multi hue camo each spot was shaded & highlighted with oils,NEVER again.This is my 1/8th scale Micheal Wittman, black is it's own little problem by no means a straight foward approach.  The S.S sapper is in 1/9th scale, both are sculpted molded cast and painted by yours truly.

Lufttiger wrote:

...i'm wondering how they do it ...

There are several reference works for painting miniatures with oils.  Buy two or three and see how other folks do it.

Light colors in oil tend to dry more slowly than the darker colors.  You can add various media to the paint to make them dry more quickly.

I've dabbled with them and tend to like them. 

EasyMike wrote:

You can add various media to the paint to make them dry more quickly. I've dabbled with them and tend to like them.

I found some Japan Dryer... add a touch to the oils if you want it dried quickly. I wouldn't say "fully cured", but dry to the touch in about 24 hrs.

You can also try out the alkyd version of oil paints. Fast drying oils. Pretty cool stuff.

Steve

Be patient!!

I like to use artists oils thinned with distilled turpentine. Thinning the oils speeds the drying time, but you've still got to be prepared to wait.

There are a couple of my figures painted with oils:

Al