"Some of my Airfix 1/32 " Topic

I had a complete blast painting these. They are all K-Resin, the new material that is supposed to be sandable. I didn't find it much better than the old soft poly and it was also harder to clean up. The actual figures are a joy to paint.

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I did a dark version of the main colour, then sloshed a lighter shade over the main area of the garment and followed it with some highlights and then drybrushing.

The camo jackets tended to make the pocket details etc disappear, so I went over those afterwards with a wash and some more drybrushing.

As you can see, they aren't based yet, because I haven't decided what ruleset to base them for.

Next up are the Afrika Korps.

I REALLY like those! Nicely done. Mine are primed but not painted. I'll steal your pics to work on mine.

Thanks,

John

Well done! I have painted a few of these new Airfix figs. I like the new material, the older soft stuff was just too bendy. It is called K-resin? I have yet to try sanding it. They are still great sculpts after all these years, timeless, proportional, classic!

I am wrapping up my 8th Army guys and moving onto the DAK figs. Have you tried gluing them? I want to put some helmet heads on them.

Very nice Mr 4th. I've got a whole bunch of the old poly versions of these.
Your painting of the faces on the commandos is particularly nice, very natural. Any tips?

CG

Nicely done. I've slowly been painting some 54s myself.

Thanks chaps.

@ CG: I do faces by adding brown to a basic flesh tone and going over the whole face with that. Then go back to the basic shade and add as appropriate – a bit of red for ears, white to do the temples and bridge of the nose, etc. Eyes always a mid-grey or blue – black or dark brown looks really bad. You can't often see eye whites but they aren't white, they're really a super-pale flesh colour. Equally there should usually be some five o'clock shadow.

Two mega discoveries: Coat d'Arms Horse Tone Dun is the *perfect* colour for blond hair, and Xtracrylix German Sandbraun is equally perfect for ginger hair.

@ CS: Apparently you can straighten bent weapons with a dab of superglue, or by softening in boiling water then plunging them into cold. The best way to remove seams from K-Resin for me was with the edge of a new knife. Using metal files, a lot of seams didn't want to come off.

I should photograph them more at interim points because from certain angles and when blown up on a 17" monitor I can see there are some faint seams still left.