I’ve been going though my “pile of shame” (unpainted models piling up in storage) trying to find something to paint. I finally decided to work on the Faun Girl Bust by Nikita Lebedev. It was printed on my Anycubic Photon Mono at 30um layer height awhile ago.
Work In Progress
My initial plan was to paint the whole model with oil paints. After going on a long YouTube tutorial binge watch, I found a skin tone technique using airbrushed lacquer paints I wanted to try that is often used by 1/6th scale figurine painters. The process is as follows:
- Pain the skin area in a brilliant pink or magenta After dry, sponge on red all over to leave an uneven texture. Wait for it to dry and seal it in with a matte/sating varnish
- Start applying the base skin tone, leaving some redness in crevices and where skin would normally be redder
- Using low PSI on the airbrush, “stipple” varying amounts of green, blue and yellow to give the skin some unevenness. At this point the technique usually calls for hand painting in thin vein lines, but I opted to omit this step
- Once again, apply the base skin tone with the airbrush, but with a much thinner mixture. I also added in a little bit of white pearl paint.
I was pretty happy with the result, but I over did the last layer of skin tone. Instead of starting over, I used a combination of shaved chalk pastels and smudged oil paints to define various areas of the skin tone. I then proceeded to paint the eyes with acrylic paint then sealed it in with glossy clear UV resin finishing it of with a white dot for a specular highlight.
The next step was to tackle the hair and plant accessories. I decided to use oil paints for this part as I believed using oils would work extreme well with how detailed and textured the model is. I had some trouble with holding the model while painting and keeping the skin clean from oil paints. This ended up with me having to touch up the ears and some parts of the skin. For the hair after layering and blending the paint, I applied a Payne’s Grey wash, and carefully sponged off excess from the raised areas.
Completed Model
