How I paint soldiers (3)


Hands and Faces to finish.

The first step is a highlight with Humbrol flesh.


This was trickier than normal because of the moustaches and some slightly rough casting. To smooth things I popped on another quick wash of flesh shade:


Then re highlighted and put some highlights on the moustaches with army painter leather brown:



Here's a photo of the finished 6 figures


Now to start the next batch of 6. I'm aiming for a unit of 30 figures plus two seperate standard bearers.

Comments

  1. BigRedBat4 June 2015 at 20:43

    Great looking minis! Love your style.

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  2. painterman4 June 2015 at 21:31

    Great guide Steve - a fairly speedy approach, which creates fantastic looking figures.
    Simon.

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  3. Bedford5 June 2015 at 08:01

    I'm going to re-trace these articles Steve as I have rather a lot of French Nappy Troops that I simply cannot afford the time to lavish my usual technique on and you seem to get excellent results very quickly- which I might add, simply isn't fair! LOL :>)

    Darrell.

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  4. Matt5 June 2015 at 16:01

    Steve,
    These are a super series of articles. I've been using a similar technique on my WW2 British and have been quite pleased with the results! As Darrell points out, it saves time and your troops look great.
    Thanks
    Matt

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