Metal Hollow-cast Ladies & WW1 British Painted With 'Satin' Finish

 Metal figures I often paint with enamels and finish with enamel varnish. In the case of the two ladies I used acrylic paints and finished them with Humbrol satin. The varnish is more on the gloss side than the mat.

  I also redid the makeup on the black lady and tidied up the purple dress. Now I can see another couple of spots I missed on both figures, so I'll fill those in too. I also added nostrils to the noses, but these are barely noticeable with the flash operating on the camera.

The pussycat I painted many years ago, in the same colors of my then cat, Dixie. I see some paint came off her tail. The building is a Pepe the Pig one.

These are two repainted Hilco figures. The one in the foreground has one leg longer than the other! he also has a bandoleer which makes me think of him as dismounted cavalry or mounted infantry. I gave these figures a light shading wash of GW Agrax Earth Shade. Normally I'd go back over it with the original color so the shade does not appear on raised parts of the figure. This time I just rubbed it back with my finger but I can see places I would prefer not to see it.

   The faces are painted in a style similar to Roy Dilley, a combination of old toy soldier and model finish. Why does the charging figure have an eyepatch? Well, one eye was painted higher than the other and rather than repaint it I took the lazy path and added the eyepatch! Moustaches were so fashionable for this period of WW1 that I paint them on most of the male figures.

                                  The building is an old textured one probably 1950s or older.

                                    A parting look at the ladies. The nostrils are more apparent now. The noses were almost non-existent, so it was my way of adding some nose definition and to allow them to breathe.