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I like your first (ever) figure better, painting in eyes imo (in my opinion) can have the appearance of non-reality.I thought I'd post something here as a continuation of my progress.
The figure I painted wasn't exactly inspiring and I just put it in a box and closed the lid.
I've been getting better in the paint department over all but I was struggling with the finer detail and last week I read a post/article somewhere about how little money people were prepared to pay for their paintbrushes compared to all the other models, paints and equipment they needed for their hobby, and this made me think.
I bought a cheap set of Humbrol Palpo brushes when I started back in May/June sometime and they are not good for detail. I've tried to rotate them so many times on a piece of paper to get the paint to a finer point but it doesn't work.
Not knowing anything about paintbrushes in these sizes I just decided to order one that was more expensive. Not really expensive, but more expensive to see if it made a difference or if it was me who was broken? :p
I ordered a £4.50 Rotmarder-Kolinsky Springer Pinsel size 0 and it made a HUGE difference!
I've already posted this picture in my King Tiger build thread so I'm sorry for cross posting - but this was my first thread/question on the forum and I felt like updating it if another learner reads it in the future they can get something more valuable from me than just a quick laugh...
I'm still miles away from your fantastic figures, but for me it's big progress and it certainly is helping the confidence!
I even managed to paint the eyes white and then adding blue irises. That felt really good and the kids though their dad had gone bonkers when I told them to come and look what I'd done... hehe...
Compare to this, my previous - and first ever figure I painted...
There is hope
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