@fiveten - Thanks Spiros. Feels good to be settling in.

@gblair - Hey George, moving really is challenging. The house I bought was built in 1865, so it's got a lot of cool features and needs a lot of work. I am also looking forward to seeing the painting of your two figures. Luke Skywalker is always cool, but I am super intrigued by the conquistador. I hope you find Groundeffected as entertaining as I do. The guy is an amazing artist.

@gblair - I'm not retired, but as a college teacher, I do have a lot of time. I'm in a similar area of SE Wisconsin, still about 40 minutes from work but closer to lake Michigan, I'm about 7 blocks from the lake now. As far as the maintenance goes, you are absolutely correct. The previous owners only lived here part time, more of their vacation home. So there's a lot to do to get it into shape.

"Pinkle" (Pink & Purple) undercoat will/should add depth to the skin tones.

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@johnb - Thanks John, the idea is from Groundeffected, a YouTube channel by a gentleman named Brent Goudie. The dude does mostly large format, 3d printed, figure painting. Also where the 'Pinkle' term is coined from. I'd love to claim the idea as my own, but not painting figures this large before, I have very little idea of what I'm doing. The layering idea does make sense though, so hopefully it all works out.

Looking excellent so far, my friend @brithebuilder!

First layer of skin tone - Vallejo Basic Skin Tone. There's still a bit of the Pinkle showing through in places. I didn't completely do this as a zenithal type of application but I was trying to minimally keep the lightest skin tones away from the bottoms of the muscle structures. There will be additional applications of Citadel - Reikland Fleshshade from the bottom to actually emphasize the shadows. Conan himself will be getting some Vallejo Dark Flesh as well. As a Cimmerian, I believe he should have darker skin than the dudes that he's battling.

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