Deal all, as a newbie modeller myself I have found it quite difficult to paint 1/35 figures in good standard (by good I mean looks appeal in general distance, but not professional level) especially dealing with the figures face. I have been doing OK with AFV painting but feel that figure paintings require more level of understanding of Art. (Unfortunately I am not particular good at Art) May I ask are that any On-line instruction sites that I could get helped from? I really would like to see step by step on figure painting procedures by pro, that would be really helpful for me, Thank you!

There's a few videos on You Tube of figure painting. Some are crap but some are very good so it's just a case of working through them for the one that you find useful. I have to admit following the videos is a lot easier rather than photos as you can see the techniques better.

here you find video of Cartacci a world master...

http://thepewterbrigade.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/danilo-cartacci-assembled-video.html

if you need i have few Manuals in PDF...

There are some really nice articles on Historicus Forma, you can check them out:

Painting a Face: Oils over Acrylic

Painting Faces

Painting Figures with Humbrol Enamels

Basics of Painting Figures with Oil Paints

Mario

Dear Vicious, thank you for the link, that's very helpful for me. And yes I would love to have the PDF manual for further study! Would you kindly send them to me, would be really appreciated!

WOW, that's a lot of helpful stuff for me, thx mate, really appreciated!

Hi,
i am sorry but i check and Unfortunately all the pdf about figures i have is in Italian,the few i have in English is proper books,but if you ere interested here you can find 2 really good books on pdf for a good price

https://www.bookrepublic.it/books/publishers/auriga-publishing/ ...if you login like new costomer you have a 2euro discount.

This is the English version of what is for me but also many other like figurine a proper "bible" a "must have" the book of Danilo Cartacci is the same master of the video ( this is his blog http://www.labottegadelcartacci.it/index.php?lang=english )...i love this book!!.....
https://www.bookrepublic.it/book/9788888711409-painting-miniatures/?cv=1

And Also this one (All books of the "Static Model Manual" series is write in Italian and English in the same version i have few,is really good for acrilycs paiters...
https://www.bookrepublic.it/book/9788888711492-static-model-manual-5-painting-figures/?tl=1

This is the website of the Auriga publishing house

http://www.aurigapublishing.it/libri_elenco.asp?collana=STATIC%20MODEL%20MANUAL

Probably for your needs can be good this publication...
http://www.aurigapublishing.it/libri_det.asp?ID=156

I am not related in any ways with aurigapublishing i just really like the Static Model Manual series

P.s: the Ebooks shop is just in italian i think,if you need some help with traslation i can help you...

Thank you Vicious, your stuff are very helpful for me, really appreciated. I just placed an order for Painting Miniatures via Amazon

If you're looking for a simple method to paint figures that you can use along with your tanks and stuff.. check out this video.. it shows a pretty simple method that gives a pretty decent result.

Video

Hisham

I'm glad I helped and i hope you enjoy the book like i have enjoyed!

The book of Cartacci is good becose is tecnique is not just on oils or just Acrilycs but a mix of both depend on what do you want to do, but also if focused on Acrilycs the 2 books of Aleks Michelotti is really good specially for beginners becose explains the theory of colors,shadow,different scale etc..

i find also here some review of Auriga books...

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showmaker&makerid=633

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/review/2845

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/news/20742

Here is the tutorial i learned by, and still go off of.

http://zyclyon-tutorials.blogspot.sg/2009/03/painting-head-by-calvin-tan-head-is.html