First time Oil Painting WIP, tips and advice much appreciated

Same as oil based, you can clean your brush in water. Works the same without the smell.

Water based oils?? How does that work?

I use water based oils , they don't smell, mainly for when I'm painting animals especially horses , it gives a more realistic finish to the hide in my opinion. I shade first with acryllics then the rest in oils. I don't do the small figures though.

   You are a brave man painting with oils on such small figures  I am no expert but I usually block my colors with acrylics and then use oils for the shading and highlighting.  Keep up the good work and keep posting.  Are they gw figures ?            knox

I used to paint as a hobby using oils, and I recently picked up a couple of the Tank Art books in which the use oils for highlighting and such is much discussed. I would suggest trying something called Japan Drier, which is an oil drying agent, as it really cuts down the drying time-- use it on a scrap piece first though, just to be sure it won't harm your surface. Also, as outlined in the aforementioned books, put your oils on a piece of cardboard  and allow them to sit for 15 minutes or so before painting. This has the effect of absorbing out some or most of the linseed or other oil in the paint, giving a less glossy appearance.You can just use the cardboard as your pallet and discard it when you're done!

I use Daler Rowney as well, but use the oils for streaking and grime only. You will find that oils in general will take a very, very, very long time to dry.

That's why I highly suggest the Daler Rowney acrylics. The Art Advantage acrylics at Michael's are okay, but dry with a semi-gloss finish.

Daler Rowney is the good stuff for figures if you can't get Citadel paints. :)

Mike, I'm using a box of Georgian Oil by Daler Rowney that I picked up from Michaels awhile ago. I originally planned to use it on some Reaper Bones I had picked up with the intent of wet blending a whole lot of skin tones (skin being something I've had trouble with in the past) but an oversight on my part being that the Bones material inhibits oil based products from curing meant I was stuck with eternally wet paint. not very fun... I was going to load a pic of the paint tubes but i cant get it loaded on photobucket.

It's weird painting with oils, I'm used to how the acrylics behave on the brush and knowing how close I can get to each area, but it feels like my brush is constantly overloaded with paint due to it constantly being wet. you can see some primer areas I missed all over the Thane, which I hope will get covered with the first wash, and the parts where I overlapped, i couldn't take care of because of the long dry time. I also messed up on his "eyebrow" which I plan to pick out in gold, but of course the steel color wasn't dry yet so it didn't work out well.

Washes and then highlights were the order I had in mind too, so once they dry I will be washing away.

Now in apology for the wall of text, here's the bezerker. He was painted at the same time with the same colors.

and of course I couldn't leave without letting everyone see his little plastic posterior. I really hope that's glare on the back of his hand, it's way too easy to remove this paint.

-Random Extra-

It looks like you have most of your blocking done. I'd go with a few washes and then start your mid highlights.

Oils? That's got to be tricky. Personally I block with enamels and then do all of my shading with acrylics.

What type of oils are you using?