It has been something like 10 years (!) since I have painted any 15mm figures, so I decided to do a test figure, see how I liked the colors and such before I really got into it.
Keep in mind that the figure is based on a 19mm disk, so you can see that this is blown up a bit, but I think that the painting is not terrible... but hang on, why does it look sandy?
| Did not roll the figure around in sand before painting |
Under magnification it appeared that the figure was covered in fuzz from the white primer (which did fail after this use). Review of the other figures revealed that some others were similarly afflicted, so under magnification, I scraped each of the figures with my finger nail, and used a file for smaller bits.
Now smoothed, I touched up the paint a bit, and ended up with the following: