The book is well-written, and there are tons of detailed pictures and step-by-step formats to look and learn from. One of the things I liked in the text was the use of different mediums used to paint figures. The author gives examples of painting figures with enamels, oils, and acrylics, and gives the basic pros, and cons of each medium. This is a good reference material. The most serious omission in the book is any detail on how to paint faces, faces are the most important part of scale model figures and the hardest to achieve with any realism. Only one chapter deals with faces and this figure is a much larger scale than most figure modellers work in, therefore useless to most of us who work in the common scales. This book is useful in some aspects of painting figures, but its incomplete.