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Quoted Text4. You can achieve a few different weathering techniques with enamels, however remember that since your base paints are enamel you will need to varnish your model to protect this layer of paint before you beging any of these techniques with enamel paints:
Although I agree with most of the great tips that Karl offers, the above is not necessarily true. It will depend on your curing time and the thinner you use. I use Humbrol enamels and never use a varnish between base paints and weathering.
I strongly recommend Humbrols enamel thinner ... perfect for washes and thinning paints but mild enough to not lift the enamels, if they have had time to cure .... at least 24 hours. Its a bit more expensive that other thinners per volume, but if you only use it for weathering, it should still last a long time. Use your normal thinner for base painting as normal.
An easy way to paint eyes is to use the following method.
1) Paint over the eyes area with an off-white colour (mix in some cream to the white)
2) Draw a black line though the eye. If your right handed, do the left eye first so you can keep them lined up. Always draw the line more to one side ... never striaght in the middle.
3) Draw a line of blue or green through this to add the iris colour
4) Draw a dot in the middle for the pupil
5) Using a dark flesh colour give the eyes shape, keeping equal white lengths on both eyes at each side ... but not too much either. Its better with none rather than too much
6) Highlight and shadow using the moulded detail as a guide.
Brush size is not as important as a good tip ... keep a good quality brush just for eyes. This is probably the single most important step in a figure ... get the eyes wrong, and the figure will never look right, no matter how good you paint it. Thats why I start here and when Im happy, I proceed. Not happy ... use some thinner and remove the last step until I get it right (or at least acceptable). Worst case scenario ... just draw a black line through the eyes .. its enough for most figures at this scale. Painting the eyes after the flesh often gives the lunatic effect with that 1000 yard stare.
See some Tristar figures below, that had quite slanty eyes and it was not really possible to get the whites in.
cheers for the tip 
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