Today I held a woman by the feet and painted her boobs, well several women actually, I think they all enjoyed the sensation of the brush strokes.... Yes of course it was my plastic people I was painting. I learnt to do it at the Wargamers Shop, painting figures that is.... And for those of you who think Tramway Modellers are a tad strange then Wargamers are so far of to one side they are right off the scale. But its a simple process really, rather than use solid colour I use “artists acrylics” and a mixing pallet, put 2 or more drops of paint of different colours onto the palette and use the brush to blend them and apply so as not to have one solid colour but rather a “symphony” of colour with different tones and hues. I tried to use sombre colours redolent of the period. It tends to look natural especially hair which if I bend white and black I get grey/black hair with white streaks through it. As these are mainly passengers and will be sitting inside the trams they don’t have to be super detailed. I like the Basil Rathbone lookalike reading a book, yeah as if you could read a book while being jolted around in a tram.... Mind you I would be the last person to ask about artistic painting, I'm gunna be in real strife when I have to paint backgrounds.
