Figs on nails
CHEERS!
Very nice!! [bow]
OK, is this a funky downtown art installation or something? “‘Figs On Nails’, now at the Bleeker Street Gallery”?
Are these figures you created yourself, using lead & plastic? (And why on nails, anyway - I find the ‘old double back loop of tape on a plastic card’ trick works well for painting & detailing).
Why does the woman in the Yellow Blouse & Blue Skirt look like Chico Marx in drag and does that tie in with Howdy Partner?!? [:P] ) - and what’s the deal with the guy in the pink cap holding something up (Hammer? Bell? Paintbrush?) in his right hand - what’s up with his mouth? And why ‘Figs on Nails’ anyway, why not ‘Girls on Film’, which would be sexier at least…
I fear I am misinterpeting this art installation completely, like the philistine I am…
It does look like Chico! 
Rotor
And the guy in the pink hat looks like a white guy in blackface - very politically incorrect!! Just ask Jesse J!![:-,]
Geez! As the late, great Rodney Dangerfield might have said, “Tough audience.” [swg] The kneeling guy appears to be a pretty rough casting (with what might be a broken hammer in his right hand), and I’m not too sure about the seated guy, but the rest look pretty decent to me. And the flat paint looks good, too.
Wayne
I spent 30 minutes trying to figure out what Jesse James had to do with “politically correct”…
it just hit me…
it wasn’t Jesse James! 
Rotor
“As the late, great Rodney Dangerfield might have said, “Tough audience.””
Tough! Besides, I found Ted Knight & Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack both played such annoying characters in Caddyshack that I wanted Bill Murry to wack both of them up the head with that Gopher…
- If Kyle indeed molded/created those figures by hand, then he did a great job - certainly better than I could have done from scratch (I’m fair with modifying existing Preiser & Bachman etc figures, as I have a fighting chance there)
2.) Flat finish is imperative for realistic human figures - only for very shiny clothing and jewerly (such as bracelets, chains, glasses, shined-up oxford shoes, gold lame pants if you’re modeling Disco Stu, and so on) should it be anything but flat, and use only a semi-gloss finish there.
3.) I don’t think I see any painted facial features (well, except for Mister pink cap/big lips) - good, those look clownlike in the smaller scales. Painting mustaches & beards - that’s required, though.
4.) The ‘Sheriff’ (or gypsey or whatever - guy w/ yellow shirt, brown jacket, & western hat), Ms Chico Marxs w/ broom, and the walking girl w/ yellow bag look the best - the workmen seem a bit deformed, but maybe that’s the photo angle.
Theya er pretty good looking figures. I’m not sure what the op’s original intent was but when I paint HO scale figs I tend to hold them on a nail with a blob of hot glue so have a handle to turn them with while I’m painting them. A trick I learned years ago when I used to paint a ton of military figures in the 15 and 10mm ranges. Although I do aggree that one does look like Chico in drag.
Rob