RE: [SGII] The Eyes Have It.

Stuart Murry just gave a painting seminar at GZGECC on painting figures
for
minatures wargaming (as opposed to contests).

On of the things he suggested was to just wash the face of the minature
with
a darker (flesh?) wash. This darkens the eyes and brings out other
facial
features.

OTOH, he suggested if you wanted to paint the eyes, do the following
(IIRC):
1. Paint and wash (with ink, not soap) miniature's face.
2. Paint eye socket black or dark brown.
3. Paint eye socket white (don't cover all of black).
4. Paint irus/pupil.
5. Paint orignal flesh color across top of eye as eyelid.

I have just started doing 15mm Stargrunt and do not plan to paint the
eyes. 

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Brian Bell
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Crimmins [mailto:johncrim@voicenet.com]
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 13:21
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: [SGII] The Eyes Have It.

[snip]

Thus, a survey of sorts: You Stargrunt players, how many of you bother
painting the eyes on your miniatures?  I'm speaking mainly to the
25mm/28mm 
folks here, although any of you crazed 15mm enthusiasts are free to
speak up
here as well.

[snip]

Me, I paint the eyes.  And I'm starting to wonder if it's really worth
the
trouble.  You see, I follow a few simple steps when painting eyes:

 1) ... 11) [snip]

So, I'm considering changing my habits ...  Just darken the eye sockets,
and
there you go -- looks good enough on the tabletop.  Besides, at least
for
SGII, you generally want more attention being paid to the uniform than
to
the face anyway.

Although if you are a firm believe in WYSIWYG gaming, deploying an army
without eyes is just asking for trouble.

[snip]

-- 
John Crimmins
johncrim@voicenet.com