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Hey Tony,

Yes, due to the material nature of resin, the details do tend to be sharper and more crisp. That's not to say that a resin figure will produce a better painted figure. Indeed, one's painting approach needs to be slightly different. I only  realised this recently when reading a Bill Chilstrom book, but in the case of plastic figures, due to the softer details, one needs to accentuate the folds and creases and details more when painting than one would need to do so in the case of a resin or white metal figure. So in other words you can use the extreme highlight method on plastic figures quite successfully whereas it would appear over the top in the case of resin figures. I'm babbling, does this make sense?

In terms of base coating (and actually even priming), I generally let the paint set overnight. In theory one could apply subsequent coats (be it acrylic, oil or enamel) to an acrylic under/base coat within an hour.

HTH

Rudi