Painting the figure - the legs

Here are the legs, after the revised paint scheme. This was just a base coat. I did have problems with the legs, not so much in handling them, but in what to do with them until the paint dries..... a fellow modeler, Bob Chawgo reminded me of pinning and handles. So in the second part, it can be seen how I filled up a jar with some sand (nice, wide, short, fat, heavy jar) and just poke the dowel handles in the sand, to let the paint dry, with out fear of smudges, finger prints, all those kind of things that can be avoided by a bit of thinking ahead of time.....