For anybody who wants to give repainting their own Leia a try, chilipepe66 hit me up for tips, so I thought I'd copy in what I replied to him.
chilipep66 said:
hey man
fantastic work on the Leia repaints
not to take up too much of your time, but i was wondering what brand/color paints you used on her hair and eyes? also a quick summary of the technique you used on the hair, if you dont mind. thanks!
Happy to do it. I use Folk Art latex based acrylic paints found at Michaels art & craft supply stores.
Hair colors:
Acorn Brown
Dark Brown
Black
Metallic Inca Gold
I use a paper towel with a large piece of scotch tape as a pallet. Put a dab of paint on the tape (it's water proof and inexpensively wasted). For this job, get a brush with bristles almost a 1/4" long, but with a flatness to it (not round). You don't want to use a fine detial brush on this, but you want it small enough not to overwhelm your working surface. I started by dry brushing the hair with Acorn. Get some paint on your brush from the tape and tap it almost dry on a paper towel so that the paint doesn't run into the details but stays on the raised features. The soft gloss on the statue makes the paint not want to stick at first, so be patient and keep going in, building it up layers. Brush it with the side of the brush along the direction of the hair. Let it overlap the hairline onto her skin just a tiny bit so you don't have such a harsh 'painted' line. Go ahead and hit the hair wherever you want it highlighted and make it slightly lighter than you want at first, and stay away from deep areas where heavy shadows would be.
Once you've got it where it's a LITTLE bit lighter than you want it to end up being, add a bit of Inca Gold to the Acorn on the tape with a bit of water to keep it thin. Dab off the excess on the towel and hit only the most prominent of areas where you think light would catch the most such as where it rolls backward away from her forehead and the tops of the knots. Start with very little, and add more if you feel it needs it. Less is more, and it's way easier to add than subtract (which basically means you are adding more paint to cover it, then start over).
Once it's fully highlighted it may look a bit wrong, but now you're going to make it right. Mix Dark Brown with a little bit of black at first. Make it nice and wet and thinner than milk on the tape pallet. Dab off the excess of water once on the towel so it won't flood the figure detail, then give all you highlighted areas a good sloppy once over. This will blend the highlights into the rest of the hair with a uniform tint of Dark Brown without covering them over. Hit it until you start to see the transitions in color look natural. Now add more black, thin it more with water, and give it another once over. Don't worry if it starts to look too dark again. You can touch up the highlights again soon. First go after those deeper, less highlighted areas like where it comes out of her forehead and in the deepr grooves.
If you need to, grab some Acorn again, and very dryly hit your favorite highlights again, add Inca and very lightly hit the most prominent highlights. Now hit is with the wash again to bring all together once more.
You can go back and forth with these techniques until you achieve complete and total awesomeness. Don't worry about spray coating it. As long as you aren't handling her by her head regularly your paint isn't coming off.
Quick tips for the eyes: Thin some Ivory White, dab the excess, and brush it right across the brown of the eyes. Let it dry and do it again until the brown is gone. Mix a tiny bit of red in, and wash the outer edge of the eye to create the natural pink outline (this should be subtle, but noticeable.
The eyes are sculpted to look a certain direction so there really isn't a great way to change the gaze, but to do what I did, take a fine detail brush (new is best), use thinned black to create the shape, size, and angle of the eyes you want. Now go back to the Acorn brown, thin it, dab it, and fill in your black iris shape, making it brightest in the center radiating outward to the edge, but stopping just inside the black to leave a dark ring. Touch a little more Acorn to the lower curve of the eye, and use a bit of black mixed in to shade the upper half in the shape of the upper eyelid. Black in the pupil. Get some brush on clear gloss finish, mix it with a little water on the pallet (use a clean brush for this) and give the eyes one even thick coat. You can now fix her eyeliner with Dark Brown or Black as you see fit.
I also used thinned Acorn to shape the eyebrows, added Dark Brown to the mix, and went over them again for darker fine hair lines (this needs to be very subtle).
Hope that helps. Have fun.
Unless somebody claims lazy eye...
This is a consistent problem, c'mon mods .... 
And yeah good job on the repaint SSurfer. Although I won't repost those pics. 
