Blood for the Baron!

I have the same thing with my customs Monkfish. Once they are done Little Humby gets to play with them so I try to avoid painting as much as possible. Don't get me wrong he is very respectful and I know that undercoating and varnishing can make the paint quite hard wearing but its still a worry.Makes life very hard trying to track down certain parts in the right colour.

Humby I know what you mean. The issue is compounded when you have to resort to one-off custom colours. I've still not tracked down that flesh paint you recommended, so this one used a diy mix of white, red, yellow and green.

My kid is conscientious too. Sometimes too conscientious - he gets worried about breaking or scratching the customs and older stuff and has to be reminded that they are his toys, to use how he wants.

I know exactly what you mean mate. PM me your address and I have some of that Tamiya flesh paint you can have. If you wanted to jazz the pilot up a bit more how about a modified mask from Ripcord?

Dude, you just gotta put a badge on the nose of that escape pod thingy, it was made to measure the

hey great work mate! the face looks like a sweet job too, i know if i tried painting a face it would probably end up looking like this

Great job, monkfish. He does look bang on Shadow.

Humby, thanks for the offer. I've got one last hobby shop to try and get into this week, which has the worst opening hours ever - 10am to 3pm most weekdays, otherwise closed and if it's snowing forget it (how do they survive?). If they don't do Tamiya or any half-decent substitute then I'll pm you. I've managed to get into the shop once before and it's an Aladdin's Cave, so there's a chance.

I've just looked at Ripcord in the archive and really like that idea - time to go hunting on ebay.

Thundershot, I agree and will see if the young 'un is happy to do that - if he is I'll post pics.

Squad Leader (not Sundance - oops, sorry), the fact I've not yet learned how to paint curvy lines yet is the only reason it doesn't look like that already. In truth the face mold is awful - for some reason he has vertically corrugated skin and no lips, so it was a bugger to get him looking human.

Chopper, cheers. I think that the black triangles with white chevron on the upper arms were a masterstroke by Palitoy in the design of the Red Shadow. Put them on another figure and it starts to fit in.

Sundance, the fact I've not yet learned how to paint curvy lines yet is the only reason it doesn't look like that already. In truth the face mold is awful - for some reason he has vertically corrugated skin and no lips, so it was a bugger to get him looking human

i think you may have mistaken me for Squad Leader there....

Monkfish wrote:he has vertically corrugated skin and no lips, so it was a bugger to get him looking human.

Hey, c'mon, this is the we're talking about!....Who says he has to look human?

Sundance & Squad Leader, sorry, comment fixed now.