If I may throw in my two cents please? I think how hard figures are depends on who you are.

I've seen:

Armour guys consider aircraft difficult because of all the decals.

Aircraft guys consider autos hard because of trying to get a perfect clear gloss finish.

Auto guys consider armour hard because of all of the tiny 'fiddly bits'.

So frankly are figures hard or easy? Everyone will have a different opinion.

Practice makes perfect and you don't know till you've tried it. Looks like you've got a well detailed figure, a crisp figure is much easier to paint than one with soft detail. Looking forward to seeing your work!

Well awright, looks like I started a debate here - unintentionally! AJ, of course building models isn't the easiest thing to do. And I have no problems agreeing that the top of building models is painting figures. (the dio builders and wooden ship builders will probably have their problems here, but...). Do we want to discourage people of taking a shot at it? Do we want to tell one can not get results he/she wouldn't be happy with? Do you expect an experienced modeller with tens (or even hundreds) of completed models to have bad problems with painting his first figure? I sure don't, that's why I wrote what I wrote. I didn't want to say painting figures is easy. And I didn't

And while I still look to improve my figure painting skills, still a lot of room for improvement, I must say I have a lot of fun painting figures and so I stick with what I wrote - painting figures isn't so hard. I know you disagree and I respect that. That said, I wish you a nice day

Pawel

Pawel

Painting figures isn't so hard, 

Pawel

I must disagree here. FIgures are the most challenging area of our hobby to get right. You can pass off a tank with the wrong colors, an aircraft with the wrong camo, a car with orange peel and no one "outside of a small circle of friends" would notice. But we all know, we are pretty much hard wired to know, what a human looks like. Get a face wrong and anyone will know.

FIgure painting is a really hard task master but worth the effort.

Tony, great start so far. Painting figures isn't so hard, I'm sure you'll do allright. So I wish you good luck and have a nice day

Pawel

aaarrrrrrr

Tony Lee

(In evil voice) We shall call him Little Tony, and he shall help us RULE THE WORLD!  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA

Brian

Yeah that's what it is ajlafleche,the lable in the jacket collar.

Yep I saw the cuffs but was hoping no one noticed,I should have known better than try and pull anything around you guys.

Thanks fellow,i'll clean them out tomorrow.

Tony Lee

Pvt Mutt

 

I don't know what that black speck is on the back of the neck,i'll check.

Tony Lee

The lable form his coat?

You might want to try to drill/carve out the cuffs of the coat where the wrists are attached, at least a bit. The position you're choosing will point that directly at the viewer and it's hard to paint a reallistic cuff interior if there is no depresion there.

Cleaned and primed

I don't know what that black speck is on the back of the neck,i'll check.

Tony Lee

Thanks Indy btw we lived in Oxnard for alittle over a year.

I got him cleaned up today and mounted on a base, will do finial touch up tomorrow and primer.

Thanks for coming by bud

Tony Lee

Perfect conversion Tony-\

Whatever you did to him---it's working

get to painting---I'm behind you all the way!

Nicely sculpted figure.  Looking forward to seeing him painted.

Regards,  Rick

Thanks buddy but I ain't too sure he even knows who I am sometimes.

Tony Lee

Go for it Tony.         the good lord has faith in thee