PAINTING FACES WITH ACRYLICS - NUTS PLANET 101ST AIRBORNE BUST (1/10TH SCALE) PART 1

Welcome to a return to figure subjects with a series on the excellent Nuts Planet 1/10th scale resin bust of Damian Lewis as paratrooper Maj. Richard Winters in the HBO TV series Band of Brothers. The release is reference NP-B007 and is titled US 101st Airborne.

This is an amazing casting and over 2 or 3 short episodes, I plan to show how I built, painted and then improved the finish on this fantastic release.

I used Lifecolor acrylic paints supplied by http://www.airbrushes.com and you can get all the Lifecolor range from their website or via The Airbrush Company in the UK. Thanks to them for working with Scale War Machines for many years. In fact, the bust was supplied by http://www.historexagents.com, another friend of the channel, for review in 2015 and construction/painting began way back in 2016 - I only just got around to editing this now! The plan is to go through all figure/bust builds in chronological order where and when that is possible.

In this episode which is aimed at beginners, I cover construction, priming and painting the eyes, flesh skin tones and hair. Check out the chapter markers if you want to skip straight to painting.

In the video, I mention the following films:
   • NUTS PLANET RESIN SCALE MODEL FIGURES  
   • DELUXE SUPERGLUES FOR SCALE MODELS  
   • IWATA REVOLUTION HP-TR2 - THE AIRBRUSH SHO...  

Chapter Markers:

00:00 - Pre-titles
00:21 - Desk review & unboxing
01:16 - Modelling tools, clean-up and pre-construction
02:41 - Assembly of cleaned up parts
03:32 - Gap filling with Tamiya White Putty (then later diluted with acetone)
04:25 - Painting process begins - Lifecolor references
04:53 - Lifecolor Primer & Iwata TR2 Sidefeed airbrush
05:31 - Primer coat for the model
06:07 - Bench review of primer and advice around clean up and even finish
06:44 - Painting eyes/eyeballs with black brown mix and framing eyes
08:45 - Painting iris colour and highlights/pupils
09:32 - Applying flesh base mixes
10:40 - Painting hair
11:52 - Applying progressively lighter flesh mixes for highlights, plus shadows
13:03 - Test fitting head and helmet
13:14 - Concluding remarks & next episode tease
14:02 - End credits

Hope you enjoy it and see you next time.

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