Tuesday 7 October 2014

Painting a 1/10 scale head

Using the spare head I had from my Vasily Zytsev bust I thought id paint it with a bit more patience and care and see what I come up with. Also I wanted a go at painting Warm skin tones as all the ones I've done so far are cold tones.

So .....

  1. airbrushed Enamel base coat (Humbrol 63) 
  2. painted the "whites" of the eyes with Light Stone enamel (Humbrol 121)
  3. Painted a big black dot for the iris with black enamel. I used a cut down toothpick to do this bit.
  4. I then used white oil paint and painted the black iris, leaving a black outer ring
  5. whilst still wet I used a blue (can't remember the colour) and semi mixed this with the white to create a mottled effect.
  6. left to dry for a couple of days then used black enamel on the butt end of a 0.5mm drill bit and dotted the pupils in.
  7. upper eyelid lined with Van Dyke brown oil paint
  8. botton eyelid lined with flesh tint oil paint
Voila....



Take into account that the whole head is the same size as a penny.