Nice job! Could you tell me what color tone and brand of paint you used for Drakes face and hair? I've been putting off my custom Drake to long and need to paint him.
Thanks JediMike (nice work!) and IronMan.
DutchAzlon;
There's all sorts of ways to paint out the headsculpts, and eventually you'll find a painting technique and paint setup that'll work for you. I don't regard my work to be as good as the likes of Josh or Les by a long shot, but this is what I did to paint the Drake headsculpt.
For my paints I have two pots of 'Model Master Acryl' - Skin Tone Warm Tint and Burnt Sienna; the rest of my skin-tone paints are the Delta Ceramcoat.
The Delta Ceramcoat colors I have are:- Golden Brown, Fleshtone, Toffee Brown, Terracotta; plus I have Burnt Sienna, Dark Burnt Umber and Barn Red. So I have a fair amount of skin tones to mix up and play about with.
This is actually the second time I repainted Drake. The first time I did it, I used only Model Master Acryl paints. Some people really like them; personally I struggle with them. They are gooey, and what I found is is that with Drakes cap fitting on quite tight to the headsculpt, the paint never hardened that well and when I put the cap on the paint 'moved' even though it was dry to the touch, and the paintjob was ruined.
So, I stripped all the paint off, and did it again and the results are what you see above, using the paints above. Heck of alot better, and the paint doesn't move at all.
First I sprayed the headsculpt with an Acrylic-based gray primer. The Drake headsculpt plastic it's made from seems more 'rubbery' than the others I've done before i.e. Hicks. So I waited a few days until it was completely dry to the touch.
Then, I mixed the Model Master Acryl Burnt Sienna and Skin Tone Warm Tint colors together, then mixed that with a small amount of the Delta Ceramcoat 'fleshtone' color. This helps take the 'gooeyness' out of the Model Master paints. Then the Drake headsculpt skin was pinted entirely in that as a basecoat.
Then I gradually add more and more Model Master Warm Tint with the Caramcoat colors - lightening it, drybrushing and blending the paint on the headsculpt, then mixing the colors again (lightening the shade) then applying it, then mixing it again and lightening it more, and so on. Raised areas, such as the brow, cheekbones, nose are lighter still.
Then I used delta fleshtone barn red for the eyes, then when that's dry use fleshtone with a hint of white for the eyeballs, leaving a 'border' of barn red around the outside. It doesn't want to look bright white as that looks weird. Then I paint in the iris with Dark Burnt Umber, followed by dark blue and light blue for the center matching stills from the movie as best I could.
Lips got painted in three stages; Dark burnt umber, then drybrushed with barn red then a barn red / fleshtone bend for the outer edges of the lips.
For the five o'clock shadow, I used to use paint. Now I use a dark green drawing pastel. I use it to draw on some paper, then using a brush, dip the brush in the scribble I've done then apply it to the jawline, chin and upper lip. It looks green at first, but as it gets blended in, it looks the perfect 'gray' color and isn't too harsh.
The hair again got painted in Ceramcoat. A dark burnt umber base then drybrushing it lighter and lighter in stages.
Finally I used several coats of flat Testors Dullcote Laquer to seal the whole thing and protect it from taking the cap on and off.
That was it! Sometimes I use Dark Burnt Umber for eyelashes and the like. Never use black.
Hope that helps - sorry there's no pics, but I've already painted the thing. I'm almost done with a Hicks custom and I did some additional coloring to the armor so maybe I'll post pics of that.
Best of luck!
