Wow! The stunning work you guys are doing is both inspiring and really (really) daunting, but since the deadline is looming ever-nearer, I figure I'd better get off my kryptonite and get going on my "Man Of Steel."
I went with what I used in the old days (for figures), oils over an acrylic base. I do basic skin tones with various proportions of titanium white and burnt sienna, then a day or so later go back and "pink it up" a little with alizarin crimson.
Here's Superman with basic flesh tones in place (but pre-crimson), eyes done in slightly-tinted acrylic gloss white, ready for the Archer eyeball decals.
Here are the Archer eyeball decals. (The first try I used blue, and they were a bit too large. I picked the next-largest size for the second try, and decided to go with hazel instead of blue, which looked a little too "cartoony.") Just to note, the eyeballs on the decal sheet are round, but here the upper and lower portions are trimmed to give a natural-looking iris.
A slightly less ashen-looking, pinker Superman, with eyeballs in place:
It has a sort of Gerry Anderson puppet-looking quality to it, I'll grant you, but I'm reasonably happy with it. I'll avoid looking at it for a day or two, then go back and see if anything in the face needs tweaking. (Any suggestions or corrections happily entertained. Jack's "mini-tutorial" on painting figures was very helpful, by the way.) The hair is also unfinished at this point, some highlights (at least) to be added.
Hearty congrats to Eagle for finishing Mr. Scott in fine style!
As "young Mr. Grace" would say, "'You've all done very well....!'" Looking forward to seeing more flash, especially from the barbarian contingent.