Men In Boxes

After base painting the 1/72 Zvezda greek warriors, I whipped out my reference materials and the ingredients for my magic wash -- my illustration acrylic inks from Magic Color and Pledge Wipe & Shine Floor Polish aka Future Floor Polish! My favorite shades from Magic Color are Golden Sand and Earth Brown. I'm an illustrator and I've always liked experimenting with my art materials on scale models and figures. I've discovered that these acrylic inks, combined with the Pledge Wipe & Shine make excellent scale model washes due to their viscosity, ease of application, mixability, vibrance and flexibility. Flexibility is very imortant, especially for these soft plastic figures. Modellers have complained about having paint chipping off from finished figures. This is because of the plastic's pliability, making the inflexible paint detach from surfaces that "move." By having the innate flexilbity of acrylics and combined with the covering properties o...

These are 1/72 Zvezda Greek infantry primed grey. The Zvezda figures look good, especially at a distance. Close-up though, a few poses have awkward moldlines, soft details and a lot of filled-in undercuts. I don't mind though because I'm going to use these fellas for gaming, especially in bunched up formations on multiple figure bases. These have already been mounted on DBx bases, since I'll be using these for my Hordes of the Things Mythic Greek army. Some would paint these on paint sticks, or individual painting mounts with a mind to painting the whole figure. My philosophy though is for the lazy man -- if you can't see it, don't paint it :) Base colors are slapped on, some quite messily since I'll be retouching them anyway after the application of the magic wash. I've got my own fomula for the magic wash and I'll show it soon. That's my new magnifying lens, picked up at a Japanese thrift store for a dollar. Neat find if I do say so myse...