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Neil-- figure painting has never been my strong suit, your figures look superb. How did you do the faces? I am looking for paints used and brush sizes....thanks
DJ
hi dj how you doing
1. paint the entire face with vallejo model colour medium flesh tone 860. let this dry.
2. mix a thin wash of mig oil paint, wash brown abt 080. let this dry well (i leave it overnight).
3. paint the white of the eye with vallejo model colour light flesh 928+slow dry 597
4. paint the pupil matt black or another dark colour+slow dry 597
5. thin a small amount of vmc light flesh with tap water you are looking really for coloured water then lightly paint this onto the high points of the face nose,chin and cheek bones it wont look nice to start but just let it dry it will become opaque and the high lighting affect toned down.for the small detail i use a vallejo red sable brushes no1 for the main colours and a 4/0 for eyes and high lights. to all of the vmc paints i add vmc slow dry 597 it gives you a longer time to work with the smaller amounts of paint that you will be using.
6. i wanted the faces to look tired and dirty so i put some mig oil paint abt 110 black onto a peice of cardboard and left it for 10-15 mins so that the card draws the oil from the paint then using a tamiya modelling brush hf no.0 i stipled the nearly dry paint onto the faces were the men would not have shaved..
dj i dont think that my figure painting is really that good but what i have found is that it is much easier to paint a good resin head like hornet than a plastic injection one.
i hope this helps you dj
neil
) i am sorry i didn't finish the build log of properly but time,work,kid,wife got the better of me so here you go a few pictures of my tiger "121" a couple of days before those pesky ruskies put a 120 rounds into her....... 
