Starwars fiure identify and paint advice

[mindfad]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/83528935@N04/

link to pictures there:

Does anyone know what or where these are from, picked them a a pawnstar for 50 cents each. They were metal, the guy with the green light saber u can still tell.

Also Im interested in getting critiqued on my photos dont think there the greatest. Can people see what they need to, to comment on my painting. Here is what i used:

Apple Craft:
Black
(cape painted straight from bottle)
Nutmeg Brown
(hair painted straight from bottle)
Bright Yellow
(light saber painted straight from bottle)
Ivory
dilute with unknown amount of water painted for flesh

Primer:
Liquitex White (mixed with black to have grey primer)

Going focus on the guy with the yellow lightsaber

1. I started with the primer, mixed in a unknown amount of water and some black paint to make grey primer. Got it on the brush and wiped it off a few times so it wasnt so heavy on the brush. What i got u cans ee on the guy with the yellow lightsaber.

2. used Ivory for flesh
dilute with unknown amount of water painted for flesh went over it twice

3. painted using the yellow for the lightsaber. went over it twice

4. painted hair and facial hair Nutmeg Brown
(hair painted straight from bottle)

Main questions, should i be diluting the mixtures with known quantities of water and paint? Just winging it right now. Any general tips or comments based on what i described. I think now it would have been better to take multiple pictures of each stage and written this up as i was doing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Marauderman]

I believe that the Darth Maul miniature is from the star wars saga edition Monopoly game set

[The Dread Pirate GeorgeD]

Mindfad, I replied to your post on TMP as well. I am certain they are from one of the Star Wars monopoly sets.  A colored plastic ring around the base of the figure is typical of the monopoly figures released in those sets.

Cheers.
GeorgeD.