Hi folks.
I have completed the flesh tone and shadows etc. on Tamiya’s 1/16 Rommel. But I am stuck on the eyes. The irises are raised, which I have never encounted before, and it is interfering with me painting the eyes neatly. Could someone please help me?
Thanks
What I’ve recently taken to doing, in my 25 year quest to paint good figures, is to paint the eyes first then paint the face around them. You, however, have gone beyond that point.
I’ve also discovered the eighteen 0 lilner brush which helps in small and smaller places. Do the white in an off white, creamy color. Put your Optivisor over your trusty Mk I Eyeballs. Use a medium to dark blue for the iris and maybe a tiny spoy of black for the pupil. If you are really courageous, try adding a minute spot of white off set to the 2 or 10 o’clock position on each eye to show them catching light. WHen you’re happy (enough) whith them, add a bit of clear gloss, Future or Tamiya clear gloss work great here.
Hope this helps.
The Shepard Paine technique, which worked for me for many years, is to paint a blue or brown stripe starting at the eye brow and going down over the eye area, and then ending at the top of the check. Then paint a black, thin stripe down the middle of the first one in the same manner. When that’s dry, just paint the base flesh tone around the eye leaving only the eye area visible, and bingo, an eye.
These days, I just dab a dot of color and then a smaller dab of black after the color is dry. I do the white dot mentioned above as well. An artist friend told me once that the way to get the eyes of a painting to follow you around the room is to put the white dot in both the 8 and 4 o’clock position (or wherever, as long as you have a two dots opposite each other). I’ve tried this on a figure a few times, but with limited results.
They had eye painting in a recent Finescale
Archer dry transfers has rub on eyes that are dry transfer. I don’t know the websight; all you have to do is run a google search of Archer dry transfers.
I’ve seen these applied and they universally look like doll eyes. [8)]