do 80s ARAH style bare skin legs exist somewhere? with black boots is what I'm looking for but anything really

sorry if this has been covered before

If your not wanting to paint skin tone, Sagat and Zangief from the Street Fighter lines are possibilities.

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i think most customs i've seen use smooth pieces just painted like flesh. check buck rodgers, street fighter o-ring figures ,and dungeons and dragons 80's figures.

if you are making a named character (heman) check the custom gallery here http://www.joecustoms.com/customs/custo ... &catid=all
to see what other people used. i know just about every custom i make has been done before. it's in alphabetical order.

heman http://www.joecustoms.com/customs/custo ... =H&page=11

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Hey thanks for the info yall. I think I've decided to go the painting leg molds that can pass route. I have some good legs picked out. thank you so much for linking me to the he man figures that helped. I'm making something of my own design (unnamed).

so I guess the next question is, any recommendations for the best current spot to get flesh tone paints? Glossy type so it sort of dries like the joe arah paint.

I want to do like 10 figures with bare legs lol. wrestler style

Really appreciate the help!!

i struggle with skin so take my method as just rough advice!

prime everything that will be skin with white, flat, spray paint. i used to only use walmart .88cent flat white but they quit having it, so now multi surface krylon flat white.

assemble figure.

paint everything no skin first. let all that dry so you know you are happy with it.

start painting with very watered down flesh tone acrylic paint. not washes, but pretty close. let that dry.

if after dry you are not happy go a little darker. if you are happy some washes will help make it look real.

give everything a day to fully dry. if you want shiny then seal with a quality gloss clear spray paint.

i use cheap walmart acrylic paints and mix flesh on the pallet while i paint. white,peach,brown, green usually get in my skin tones unless i'm just painting over factory paint then i just wash with light browns.

sgcaper paints really well and uses black primer. drbindy paints ultra real and uses lots of washes.

it sounds like you want them to look like toys and not real. i think you should find someone who does that style you dig and ask a bunch of questions

i bought an airbrush set after seeing some amazing paint from indrox1 yrs ago. i blew paint water everywhere and parts off my bench. then spent more time cleaning up than building the figure!

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LOL! 2dark2c.

I made a mix of 50/50 with Tamiya gloss white and flat flesh. Works very good with Hasbro flesh original.

As for wrestlers legs I have used Big Boa, Alley Viper, BF2000 Knockdown, Sgt Slaugther, BAT v2, SF2 Dalshim and the mentioned Sagat and Zangief.

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Hey thank you for the responses yall!!

can't express how much I appreciate the detailed explanations like that! I'm definitely new to this just a weirdo with an idea lol so literally any nudge in the right direction is super helpful

could I ask you guys some more questions down the road when I get started on this a little more?

yes ask away! we all started right where you are.

besides the gallery there is also the wiki http://wiki.joecustoms.com/wiki/Main_Page

lots of good tutorials there

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I always have used Big Boa’s upper legs, when I needed the bare leg look:

http://www.joecustoms.com/customs/custo ... 4&id=13994

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