Painting mth figures

First super glue  (gap filling type found at hobby stores) rows of figures to a paint stirring sticks.

Next spray paint with Krylon grey primer. This give the paint better adhesion.

Hand paint with Vallejo paints found at many hobby stores. This water based paint    has excellent coverage and easy cleanup. Buy all the basic colors, brown, tan flesh, blue, green, etc. Make sure you stir each jar before using. You have to remove a nipple with needle nose pliers to do it.

Dress the figures using one color at a time. I just pour out a small amount of paint  on a bottle cap.  Then wash it out for a color change.

Flesh colored face and hands last.

I super glue all figures to the car seats once done.

I've done 400 so far.  The only way to populate MTH cars.

GREAT TIP. THANKS

I use the paint pills on a plastic disc with 10 or so colors that came with a Plasticville people set.

I just dip a small paint brush in paint thinner and use it to moisten the paint pill and apply to the flesh colored plastic figures.  It gives a flat finish and color density is varied by how much thinner is used.

Charlie

Try using a wooden tooth pick point for fine detail. You can even chew on it a little to get more of a brush effect. Bob pretty well covered the procedure the best.

Have Fun! 

Bob Shaw posted:

First super glue  (gap filling type found at hobby stores) rows of figures to a paint stirring sticks.

Next spray paint with Krylon grey primer. This give the paint better adhesion.

Hand paint with Vallejo paints found at many hobby stores. This water based paint    has excellent coverage and easy cleanup. Buy all the basic colors, brown, tan flesh, blue, green, etc. Make sure you stir each jar before using. You have to remove a nipple with needle nose pliers to do it.

Dress the figures using one color at a time. I just pour out a small amount of paint  on a bottle cap.  Then wash it out for a color change.

Flesh colored face and hands last.

I super glue all figures to the car seats once done.

I've done 400 so far.  The only way to populate MTH cars.

 

 

 

Great tips Bob, I was always trying to hold them in a small clamp or hemostats. I will try glueing them to a paint stirred. 

Thanks,

Sean

I've painted over 200 of these. Since most are sitting, they can "sit" on a strip of wood while paint dries. I painted about 10 at a time using the assembly-line method...flesh first, then light colors (like white shirts), and so on. Hair, shoes, ties, and hats last. Let paint totally dry between colors. Use small bottles of a quality (for good one-coat coverage), quick dry paint. Use QUALITY brushes, fine and small, like red sable. Do 10 at a time so you don't get bored. Don't try facial details (no one will notice, plus it will most likely look like ****). Change colors of dresses, jackets, pants often for variety. Do NOT do this when watching TV, or if you are not in the mood.

I get a lots of "WOWS" when I've pointed to my full passenger cars and tell people "I painted all those".

I take a paint stir stick and put a row of small brads in it so that the pointy side protrudes from the other side of the stick.  I then stick the figures on to the brads to hold them in place.  I can then paint a number of them at one time.

Alan