Painting Faces question

You need to thin your paint slightly. If your paint is old and has gotten thick, then change it for some fresh stuff. Most paints you shouldn't need to thin, if they're still fresh.

What kind/brand of paint are you using?

Im using mm acryl skin tone tint base lt

FastEddies right. Sounds like you just need to thin the paint a bit. Acryllics are usually a little translucent, and often require more then one coat to get good coverage if they are thinned correctly.

Are you priming or base coating your figures?

I don't know how to prime and how do I thin the paint.

Will wrote:

I don't know how to prime and how do I thin the paint.

Priming is spraying the whole assembled body of a figure (or whatever you are at before you start painting) with a single color. I use either an Airbrush or a Spray can. Some colors that I like are grey and white although everyone uses different ones. One thing to keep in mind though is not to use exotic colors that will show through on the figure.

You thin paint using thinner.....Ok, It all depends on what kind of paints you use. The best thinner for your type of paint is what the maker of the paint produces. I'm not really sure about other types of thinner though.

Good Luck,

David

For most acryilics, I thin them with rubbing alcohol. Alcohol evaporates fster than water.  Like as has already been said, priming is just a neutral undercoat of a single color that gives the plastic surface some "tooth", giving the color coat something to stick to...  I just use plain old enamel grey primer from Wal-Mart.  The cans are only a buck or so.  Since you're using acryillics, the color coat won't dissolve the primer.  Also, if you have to put more than one color-coat on, you should seal the first coat with clear flat to keep the second coat from dissolving the first one.  

Will wrote:

...I don't know how to prime and how do I thin the paint...

 http://www.thortrains.net/paint1.html

 

 

Will wrote:

Im using mm acryl skin tone tint base lt

I don't like the MM Acrylic skin tone (I like the other paints in this line).  So I bought some Andrea's skin tones.  The MM one were to thick for me and I never could get the hang of thinning them.

Grizz

Ditto on Andrea (and the nearly identical Vallejo). Easy to find on-line if not at the LHS. Take a look here to see what they can produce.

Also make sure that the brush you are using isn't too stiff. A stiff brush will drag through the paint and leave bristle marks. Spend the extra dollar or two and get good natural hair brushes.

With the primer could you brush paint it on?

Will wrote:

...With the primer could you brush paint it on?...

Yes, but you want to ensure your brushcoat primer does not fill details.