Painting figures with Oil Paint

[Laurens Steffers]

Hi everybody,
working on some nice figures, but I hear everybody talk about
oil paints for painting. Now i've used some oil paint in the past, but
when i used it on some plastic parts, the paint came (after it had
dried) right of!!! Do I have to use a base coat of somekind, and how
do I get that nice finish you always see in the magazines.

Any other hints about painting them???

thanx

LS

[Oldjohn]

Laurens,

You should always use a base coat when painting oils!
You can use Humbrol or water based paints for the base coat. In general
there are two 'schools' regarding underpainting oils. Some use a base coat
that is similar to the oil paint that will be used for the area to be
painted (eg. use a Humbrol flesh undercoat when painting faces). Others just
use one undercoat for the entire figure, most probably white.

When using oil paints it is important to go easy on the amount of oils you
pick up with your brush and to spread it with a flat sable brush. Less is
always better with oils!! Also, don't use spirits such as terpetine to thin
the paint. It will get messy. Oils should have the consistency of thick
butter.

Much more information on painting figures you can find at www.mmhq.com

Good luck,
Edwin Ouwjejan
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[Marc Bourque]

Laurens,

Try http://www.track-link.net/articles.htm and select painting faces article
or any of the painting uniforms articles. They are very informative and
helpful.

Marc.

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[Don Schmitz]

Laurens Steffers wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
> working on some nice figures, but I hear everybody talk about
> oil paints for painting. Now i've used some oil paint in the past, but
> when i used it on some plastic parts, the paint came (after it had
> dried) right of!!! Do I have to use a base coat of somekind, and how
> do I get that nice finish you always see in the magazines.

One of the figure painters in my club has been getting me started using
artists oils to do upholstery in my auto models - the "leather" with
subtle painted in highlights and shadows looks a lot better than
anything that ever came out of a spraycan or airbrush. Anyway, he told
me to always primer first
to give the oils something to hold onto - I just use Krylon spraycan
primer - comes in white/brown/gray - use a color appropriate for the top
color. The oil paints do take days to dry, but doesn't seem to come off
afterwards.

Don