I think I made some progress tonight. I started with the base trouser color, vallejo German uniform green. I put a good amount, maybe 3 drops, into both end bins of a plastic palette dish, then, in the "highlight" side, I added light grey to the next bin, then yellow, and in the shadow bin I put dark German grey.
I started with highlights, the theory being that it is easier to tell where to shadow if we highlight first.
Starting with a 000 brushful of light grey, i put that in the main highlight bin and mixed it up. Use an old rough brush for this, not your sable. ALWAYS dab the brush on the side of the bin, then I run it in a twirling motion over a dry paper towel, then go for the figure with it. THe first highlight I did fairly liberally over obvious creases and high points, hit it with a hairdryer, then i went back and added more light grey, a bit of water, and hit the same areas, but I consciously covered less of the highlight areas, the hairdryer, then I added a bit of yellow and hit only the ridge of his collar, areas like that.
The shadows were exactly the same, except I put less and less and darker and darker paint in the creases and folds. For the last step, I switched to a 7-O brush, and I took a brush of the darkened base coat, and put that on the dark grey that I was formerly putting in the field grey.
Then I did the same for the tunic, after I put his arms on.
Here are the pictures.
First, compare and contrast with Boxer Hans, my second figure ever, he turned out ok, but the feathering was poor.
PLEASE let me know what you think, but I will tell you right now I am very ahppy with how he is turning out.
Bill