Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
This week, a beginner's guide to constructing and painting your first resin figure - starting off with the completing face.
This was filmed back in 2015 and shows me assembling and painting Nuts Planet's comic-like SD resin figure of a D.A.K. or Afrika Korps figurine and base (Ref: NP-001). These excellent miniatures are available from http://historexagents.com, who kindly supplied the sample.
This was actually the first time I used Lifecolor's excellent acrylics for a figure and specifically their flesh painting set. My technique has changed over the years, but you can see me blend them wet, then add mid tones and highlights and then rework the shadows further, before letting the paint coats dry and proceeding with dry brush blending or feathering of more precise highlights.
These paints give very subtle effects, especially when allowed to dry between the later coats.
You can get Lifecolor paint sets from http://www.airbrushes.com, but do note that the packaging has been updated from the one in the video.
airbrushes.com/product_info.php?products_id=3146
Thanks to Airbrushes.com for being a long-time supporter of the channel.
As always with Scale War Machines, this is a simple, accessible and non-elitist step-by-step video guide to painting figures' faces aimed at everyday figure painting and my background is armour modelling.
I hope you enjoy this and that it inspires you to try your hand at a larger scale resin bust or figurine using acrylics.
Visit scalewarmachines.com for more videos like this.
You may also enjoy our build series on a Young Miniatures bust of an 82nd Airborne Paratrooper from D-Day. including face painting, this time with Vallejo Model Color:
Here is part #1: youtu.be/4PfeXUevOk0
You can also check out our figure painting playlist:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJexk848lGiR5D-UCjH-2EV7pbNsaGC02
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This week, a beginner's guide to constructing and painting your first resin figure - starting off with the completing face.
This was filmed back in 2015 and shows me assembling and painting Nuts Planet's comic-like SD resin figure of a D.A.K. or Afrika Korps figurine and base (Ref: NP-001). These excellent miniatures are available from http://historexagents.com, who kindly supplied the sample.
This was actually the first time I used Lifecolor's excellent acrylics for a figure and specifically their flesh painting set. My technique has changed over the years, but you can see me blend them wet, then add mid tones and highlights and then rework the shadows further, before letting the paint coats dry and proceeding with dry brush blending or feathering of more precise highlights.
These paints give very subtle effects, especially when allowed to dry between the later coats.
You can get Lifecolor paint sets from http://www.airbrushes.com, but do note that the packaging has been updated from the one in the video.
airbrushes.com/product_info.php?products_id=3146
Thanks to Airbrushes.com for being a long-time supporter of the channel.
As always with Scale War Machines, this is a simple, accessible and non-elitist step-by-step video guide to painting figures' faces aimed at everyday figure painting and my background is armour modelling.
I hope you enjoy this and that it inspires you to try your hand at a larger scale resin bust or figurine using acrylics.
Visit scalewarmachines.com for more videos like this.
You may also enjoy our build series on a Young Miniatures bust of an 82nd Airborne Paratrooper from D-Day. including face painting, this time with Vallejo Model Color:
Here is part #1: youtu.be/4PfeXUevOk0
You can also check out our figure painting playlist:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJexk848lGiR5D-UCjH-2EV7pbNsaGC02
#scalewarmachines
#paintingminiatures
#paintingtutorial
Please visit us:
scalewarmachines.com
Or give us a like:
facebook.com/ScaleWarMachines
We're also on Twitter:
twitter.com/ScaleWarMachine
And Pinterest:
pinterest.co.uk/scalewarmachines
Copyright © 2023 Scale War Machines All Rights Reserved
