I thought I'd take a page out of Anzik's and Wayne's books and keep all my Buffy customs and mods in one neat thread, stop cluttering the joint with 4 or 5 threads.
So, here are some of the repaints/mods I've made to date on my Buffy figures:
Hush Buffy - just the eyes. She comes out-of-the-box with raccoon-like eyeliner and the eyes that looked upward. I did this one early one when I was still painting doll-dot, unfortunately. Also, I made her eyes too blue. Live and learn. I also swapped out that horridly anorexic, tall body for a spare shorty Buck. Their heads are compatible.
Graduation Day Buffy - I don't have a stock photo, but she came with the bad pink-eye disease that Angel-City of also came with. Total face repaint, and again a body swap onto the shorter Buck body. Face is a little too ruddy. I'll go back and fix that one day.
Faith - total face repaint, small hair mod, and I shortened her existing body (wanted to keep the tatoo, though I guess I could've just painted another one).
Giles - hairline, eyebrows, and hair.
Cordelia - had to fix the eye. Also swapped her onto a BBI Cy Girl body The connection isn't the best, but it works--i.e., it's a loose fit, but the head doesn't pop off unless you actively pull it off. Her Really Big Head (TM) is better proportioned with the taller body and Charisma-like bust, but now she's got high waters. I'll try to fix it some day.
I also did some minor touch ups to Spike and Angel, and redressed both with better fitting clothes from some third party manufacturers.
I use Testor Model Master Acryl paints. For skin tones, I use mixes of skin tone warm and light, burnt sienna, flat white, and a touch of yellow ochre for more tanned tones. Black skin, I'll use skin tone dark and burnt sienna . The acryl skin tones often have the unfortunate semi-gloss finish so i'll apply it in washes rather than in one cover coat. I've noticed it tends to photograph too warm (ruddy), but in hand the tones are more acceptably sallow.
Comments more than welcome. Headsculpts in next post.
binky
So, here are some of the repaints/mods I've made to date on my Buffy figures:
Hush Buffy - just the eyes. She comes out-of-the-box with raccoon-like eyeliner and the eyes that looked upward. I did this one early one when I was still painting doll-dot, unfortunately. Also, I made her eyes too blue. Live and learn. I also swapped out that horridly anorexic, tall body for a spare shorty Buck. Their heads are compatible.
Graduation Day Buffy - I don't have a stock photo, but she came with the bad pink-eye disease that Angel-City of also came with. Total face repaint, and again a body swap onto the shorter Buck body. Face is a little too ruddy. I'll go back and fix that one day.
Faith - total face repaint, small hair mod, and I shortened her existing body (wanted to keep the tatoo, though I guess I could've just painted another one).
Giles - hairline, eyebrows, and hair.
Cordelia - had to fix the eye. Also swapped her onto a BBI Cy Girl body The connection isn't the best, but it works--i.e., it's a loose fit, but the head doesn't pop off unless you actively pull it off. Her Really Big Head (TM) is better proportioned with the taller body and Charisma-like bust, but now she's got high waters. I'll try to fix it some day.
I also did some minor touch ups to Spike and Angel, and redressed both with better fitting clothes from some third party manufacturers.
I use Testor Model Master Acryl paints. For skin tones, I use mixes of skin tone warm and light, burnt sienna, flat white, and a touch of yellow ochre for more tanned tones. Black skin, I'll use skin tone dark and burnt sienna . The acryl skin tones often have the unfortunate semi-gloss finish so i'll apply it in washes rather than in one cover coat. I've noticed it tends to photograph too warm (ruddy), but in hand the tones are more acceptably sallow.
Comments more than welcome. Headsculpts in next post.
binky
But now that I'm getting more practice in, I think I will try it again. 
