I always find written texts difficult when it comes to describing craft activities, but in this case I could at least imagine a few things to the extent that I wanted to try them out. And even with acrylic paints, I felt I had made a bit of a leap here, given my modest skills.
This figure from Airfix found my fabulous wife on Utah Beach in Normandy. The colleague from the 8th Army unfortunately missed his landing zone completely, so I took him to my place.
I concentrated mainly on the skin parts and worked with three skin tones from the Vallejo Panzer Aces series. I tried to use the wet-on-wet technique with acrylic paints that Walter Fischer describes - as far as I have understood - for oil paints. I was very pleased with the result, as I had never been able to do this with a figure of this size before.
Not a big step for mankind but an important one for me personally, which I wanted to share here.






