You are so right there is no need to get stressed or mad doing this hobby. It's suppose to be about having fun and relaxing. Some people take it way to serious. The figure looks great. You did an awesome job.

I praise your last statement of the video. It is NOT intended to be stressful hobby, and if people are making it stressful, just remove them from your presence lol

Love your attitude to this painting, nothing better than a slice of humour. Great video mate .John

Nicely done Glen i always look forward to your uploads keep them coming my friend

These figures bring back a lot of modeling memories :)

One of the best figure painting vids I have seen. Thanks for sharing. I learnt a lot.

Greetings from Darwin mate! Love your tutorials, have picked up heaps of great tips! Keep up the great work mate! Well done!

Fairly new to all this and the tutorial was very helpful. Many thanks.

I'm about to paint the same soldiers as pictured.I have quite a few to paint in standard ,winter and African corps. Thank you so much for this video. I have all the paints you state and can't wait to start.

Nice. Thank you for this! Nice work broseph.

He turned out nice Glen thanks for the tutorial marra ! Regards Gav.

Those eyes of the ammunition holder looks like Marty Feldman

Great video, thanks. Just starting out on 1/35 figures so a really useful resource

Cracking video - really enjoyed it, thanks.

Good morning flower, great job mamba, love it, really great how to. Hope your all OK and staying safe

Great video and very fine job.

Thank you for this Brother

Thank you for this example of painting figures . Thank you for also showing me how to use Vallego paints. I had a feeling that it needed to be thinned which you did with the wet pallet . Now all I have to do is make a wet pallet. Thank you again.

Love the way you explain your method, and attitude very helpful for a beginner. Regards Declan london.

Thanks for the tips , very helpful.

👍👊 Painting figures is really hard.

Great video 👍 thanks again.

Have been taking my time with my figures, also finally found the type of sponge/cloth you use in your wet pallette. I had to throw my previous container out. The sponge glued to the bottom just didn't work without almost flooding the container. The other issue was I had some paint bleed into it from the parchment paper and after a couple of days of not painting the sponge seemed to be growing mold from the paint. I scrapped that one and made a new one and what a difference!

Bestia!!!!

You do fine work

" There's a really prominent corodid artery"....aka a huge seam line...lol. I'm painting these figures at the moment, I like your process and your figures look great!

I remember this set from Tamiya from the mid 1970s!

Nice. Personally I would have went lighter on the trousers and a little more gray on the tunic. But I love it.

Bung Eye.. every figure needs one lol.. 40 minutes of rooting around.. too true. Good looking figures mate, easy to follow technique. Too easy

Cool 👍

CC ist the most importand ingredient for scale modelling. I like the way you paint with acrylics but i still paint faces with oils. Because when you messed up whipe is away with a cotton stick an white spirit, but the drying time is quit nasty. Maybe i should do more with acrylics. First i saw the eyes my thought was, the hunchback of Notre Dame joined the german army…..just kiddin. I like the result and the figure would look great on a diorama. A++ and thumbs up

It all comes down to the proper amount of hydration

Good morning, what color did you use for the primer? And what color did you use for the pants?

I done mine in the afria korps version that was a really nice kit to be honest still have it on the shelf hooked up to the boggies with a guy sitting in the seat etc loved the brass shells that came with it! Just done the AFV club pak 40 last week to go with my panzer 1 dio Africa korps, I love the olive brown for the belts n straps never tried mohogany before. Would you believe my hobby shop had 10/0 and 5/0 paint brushes in so got a set! I can hardly see the tips of the brushes with my own eyes and I have good eyes got them for painting eyes on my figures never thought they went as small! Just had triple 0s before

Great job on this old figure! But, one thing i can really recommend is leaving the helmet off until you finish painting the head/face. It makes it so much easier.

thanks for the tips.... just started with figure painting... cant get rid of the cartoon eyes, haha... is usually start with the final color in thin layers right after primer, but i see that you start with a different color as a sort of pre shading... i will try that next time...

Was the figure Primed first? thank you for sharing.

An excellent paint job! But one minor nitpick...does the helmet decal seem a bit out of scale? As in too large?

Perfect. But I always think the same: 1. We use an airbrush for the first painting, in order to preserve the details. 2. Then we add 6 layers of pencil painting, including barnish... Anyway, adding a layer of Canadian Club improves the final result. With or without paintbrush. ... ;)

Just to say Glen as I forgot to mention it I am currently doing the Tamiya Paladin which has a lot of stowage, one of the reasons I was attracted to it. Thanks

Superb job and very inspirational. +1 Sub. How did you get the wire into his foot?

Maybe it's just me but it always seems these figures have noses that are disproportionately large. I don't see that with the resin ones as much. Maybe it's the older casts? Anyway, enough musings for one day. Thanks for the tutorial, Halidon.

Great video i learned alot ito have problems painting hands and faces must be an age thing

Just do your right eye white with a scar through it.

How do determine what color to add to the Main Color shading And High Light s

My dog chewed my loader when I left them out after priming... 😥 true story.

I remember this kit from back in the day I for some reason thought a Kübelwagen would tow a flak 88 dont know why maybe just bored but showed my dad when I done it and he laughed and said son why is a Kübelwagen towing a flak 88 and I said what do you mean and he said the Kübelwagen would fall apart and what did you even attach that canon to on your Kübelwagen

Really great "how to" vid. I think a lot of armour guys who can build/paint some of the most awesome looking tanks (etc) shy away from doing figures because they're worried they'll end up looking like mutants. This is what prevented me from doing figures for a long time, but have gradually come around to making them. I still don't make enough to say that I do a good job, but I think I'm good enough so that the eyes both look in the same direction, which I think is about the only part of a figure you need to get 'right'. Anyway, great vid thanks for sharing.

How do you stick the wire to the boot, heat it?

There is an error. The eagle on the arm was carried by the SS. If the model recreates an SS soldier, the national colors (black, white, and red) cannot be placed on the helmet. In addition, that decal is placed on the right side and not on the left, on the left side was the shield with the eagle. Everything else is correct. Best regards. Hay un error. El águila en el brazo fue llevado por las SS. Si el modelo recrea a un soldado SS, los colores nacionales (negro, blanco y rojo) no se pueden colocar en el casco. Además, esa calcomanía se coloca en el lado derecho y no en el izquierdo, en el lado izquierdo estaba el escudo con el águila. Todo lo demás es correcto. Un cordial saludo.

I have started watching these posts across most of the model makers and there appears to be a common theme; that despite making them look extremely realistic they all seem to have ‘shine’ which of course is wrong..is there a problem in achieving a Matt finish on uniforms etc?

Hello Glen, hope you don't mind me calling you by your first name. I have recently returned to modelling after an absence of 50 years to help with anxiety and I was just in time before the virus locked us down to acquire many kits and paints etc. I have recently made contact with Steve Motram who has been an enormous help mainly with confidence and advice, however I have become bogged down on my first kit through various reasons the first my trepidation of airbrushing which after several poor attempts with cheap tools I've invested after discussing with Steve, in a Harder & Steenbeck Infinity which has allowed me to progress a bit. But here's the latest block and I need to get by or else I'm worried I might turn away and not return regardless of the investment. I am really struggling with the painting and washing of stowage. I know to some it may be a minor point but I just can't get it right and there doesn't seem to be anything out there as a good guide to how best to do it. I know from subscribing to your channel that you are a wonderful painter and was wondering if you could perhaps do a definitive posting on the painting and weathering of stowage...….please. Neil K

Do not paint the eyes. Look at pictures of people, who are photographed from a distance. Because that is how we look at scale figures. Do you actually see the eyes? Do you see the white and the pupil? No. First, the white of an eye is not white, certainly not when seen from a distance, when the eye is in the shadow. Second, the iris is only about 12 mm in diameter. In scale 1/35 that is 0.34mm. And one third to one half of that is covered by the eyelids. That puts the white even more in the shadow. Do not paint what you KNOW (and most modelers know it wrong, anyway). Paint what you see, as if you are looking at the real thing, from a distance. If you can't see it from a distance, don't paint it on a model. It really is that simple. And more realistic. When modelers paint eyes like you do, it always looks as if those guys have a terrible disease or deformation, or something....! ;-)

Sound like you need a lesson in what constitutes funk music!

Yes eyes are a pain in the ass!!!!!!

Is this enamel paint?

I thought German leather was black

Hate that name Dio haha I get embarrassed just hearing it from the UK lads here

I don't know why I watch videos like this... My models and figures look like shit compared to yours.