Painting the Modelu O Scale Transitional Era Crew Bundle - Part 2

Painting O scale is definitely a switch from working on the HO figures. Like the HO scale Transition Crew I decided to start out with a wash over the entire figure rather than straight to the skin tones. Even at this larger scale some of the  detail is subtle enough that I needed something to make things pop a bit. For this I used Walnut Brown (9136) from Reaper Miniatures. I thinned this down to a wash consistency. I used Vallejo Airbrush Thinner for this instead of plain water. 

I then painted each of the five figures with the wash and let them dry.

Now its time for the first skin tone; A.MIG-0134 Burnt Brown Red. I thin the paint a bit with water and apply it over the entire face. Normally I paint all of my skin tones first but for this crew only the face is visible. This step is pretty straight forward.

This should be allowed to dry but it that happens pretty quickly in this climate. I moved on to the second skin tone A.MIG-0133 Red Leather. Thinned a bit with water and then applied to the majority of face, leaving the deeper shadows and creases on the face in the original Burnt Brown Red.

This is a standard build up for skin tones in my painting process. I'm definitely out of practice but hopefully things will start coming together a bit better. From here I moving on to the third skin tone A.MIG-0118 Burnt Sand. Like the previous step I'm continuing to reduce the area this color is applied to, concentrating on the higher points of the facial features. Everything looks a little rough at this point. To smooth this out I created a glaze of Burnt Brown Red and applied this over the whole face. It helps blend the edges together and emphasizes the shadow area.

These are large enough to need one extra highlight, I used A.MIG-0117 Warm Skin Tone to apply smaller dots of color on higher points; the tip of the nose, point of the chin, tops of the ears. I then blended this in with a bit of Burnt Sand followed by a glaze of Burnt Sand. Just trying to pull things together. It was reasonably successful.

I have lost some of the definition on this one. I should go back and work in some more shadow

This one isn't to bad, the upturned face is hard to work with.

I like this one the best. could use a little more work.

A bit more difficult since he is looking down, I think I need to go back and re-work the mid-tone and maybe the highlight as well.

Another one where I started to lose the definition. He definitely needs some more work.

One note here, I'm electing not to try and paint the eyes. Since the "originals" are scanned as opposed to sculpted, the eyes are to scale and at this scale and from the distance they will be viewed you just aren't going to see that kind of detail, not to mention they are all squinting a bit. I let the eyes fill in with the shadow color instead of painting them.