Life's a Beach and then you Dye

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Well a week or two ago I started daubing pigments onto this little beauty. As luck would have it, the nature of her face (and the rather scandalous "cut" of her armour at the back) lead to her displaying some rather attention seeking lipstick. Surprisingly, it actualy suits her and so I decided that, if she's that much of an exhibitionist then she probably dyes her hair too (which gives me the opportunity to make it really bright and vibrant looking without having to try and make it look natural). Fortunately I had not really thought about what colour I'd like her hair to be so I decided to show you guys the pictures so far and see what people suggest.

To aid in people's opinion forming I took some closeups:



The face, look at the face, hey, I'm up here okay! Not down there :p





Is this my best side? I'm not vain am I? Tell me if I'm vain....





Certainly not my best side. Grrr....





And I said to him, do you call this a backplate? And he said, don't worry, the boys'll love it. Sexist swine that he is. - Yeah, he was a bit :).


I've since then tidied up that strap at the back of the neck that runs above the metal ring but I'm thinking of inking those leathers to assist deifnition but I don't want to muck up the skin. I've been undecided as to wether her upper chest is actualy bare or sheathed in metal. However, the very well defined muscles on her back lead me to believe that she really is more of an exhibitionist than a practicality freak so she got naked boobies.

I've repainted her cleavage about three times (it was too bright and cartoony so I needed to darken it down a bit). The silvery metals are only base coated and nowhere near finished yet.

I have no idea how I'm going to get a brush into those recesses between her shield and her body and there's a lot of detail there I might simply not be able to get at at all.

I was going to make this  apoll but I couldn't find the poll options. I'm currently leaning towards "bright" ginger spice type red (to really stand out from the crowd) and don't really want to do her blonde.

If anyone's wondering her skin was done using the same mix as the Rackham dwarf wimmin but as a five stage thing (they got an extra two stages to soften them up a bit). I think she could've probably done with the seven stage treatment as well (that hollow cheek just looks wrong).

[Fabian]

Yes I was going to suggest bright red. NIce work so far.

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Yes I was going to suggest bright red. NIce work so far.

I was actualy thinking of a "bright" dark red with brown roots. Not entirely sure yet 'though.

[cheddarmonger]

I'd actually go a bright or deep lavender, with a white strand...  ;)  she looks more sultry, cool colors, than simply lusty, hot colors.

[Bungle]

What colours are you doing her quilted armour and non metal bits?

Deep dark red lipstick... a dark hair tone.... if you are going to colour her hair a lighter toned colour, change the lippy

[Balgin Stondraeg]

What colours are you doing her quilted armour and non metal bits?

I haven't decided if that's quilted padding or rectangular scales over leather yet.

As for the cloth (her sleeve), I'm turning towards a muddy green (sort of a goblin green mixed with browns, graveyard earth & desert yellow kind of mix).

I'd actually go a bright or deep lavender, with a white strand...

He's got to be taking the piss ain't he? I said bright and attention grabbing, not punky Necromunda stuff.

And in case nobody geussed it, the captions beneath the pictures were all inspired by the gay bloke in Gimme Gimme Gimme (not just the second one, all of them in a manner of speaking - some less thanothers).

[cheddarmonger]

What colours are you doing her quilted armour and non metal bits?

I haven't decided if that's quilted padding or rectangular scales over leather yet.

As for the cloth (her sleeve), I'm turning towards a muddy green (sort of a goblin green mixed with browns, graveyard earth & desert yellow kind of mix).

I'd actually go a bright or deep lavender, with a white strand...

He's got to be taking the piss ain't he? I said bright and attention grabbing, not punky Necromunda stuff.

And in case nobody geussed it, the captions beneath the pictures were all inspired by the gay bloke in Gimme Gimme Gimme (not just the second one, all of them in a manner of speaking - some less thanothers).

Bah.  I lived in San Francisco for eight years.  I've seen her.  Purple or lavender hair.  :P

[Bungle]

With greeny clothes.. and bright red lippy......

Red hair.. and no I don't mean ginger .. I mean scarlet.
It would need something.. if she had a fringe I would suggest a black stripe or two at the front... but they would be such a pain to do with the braids (mind you one black braid and 2 red would make a challege to get the order right)

Black roots.. to her hair  lighter tips... and scarlet in between.


appologies now if the image changes..... its hot linked to a porn site.

[Fabian]

San Fran has Necromunda chicks? I'm going there in June - excellent!  :icon_razz:

[Custom_Hobby]

NY does too

[cheddarmonger]

Oooh, I could tell you stories...   :icon_eek:  Let's just say that the scenery out here in the mid-west is a bit different.  You see the occasional wanna-be, but...

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Bungle, that's pretty close to what I was thinking of, but with darker roots and shadows so it looks more like abeautiful colour and less like "painted hair".

Any suggestions on colours to use? I've got the Citadel reds (which can come close to that if I layer them all up over each other as seen on Gimpmask Fetish Girl who actualy went two shades into the oranges) and two of the Reaper red trio's (can't remember which but one of them's really dark and the other probably covers better over a white undercoat).

[cheddarmonger]

Alright; if you want a really bright and deep red, I like Reaper pro-paint aged red brick as a base, then bring it up with the GW scab red, red gore, whatever, then gw blood red is the best perfect fire-engine red that I've found, then go orange, maybe even yellow, and wash it down with gw red ink.

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Red hair.. and no I don't mean ginger

Neither di I. I mean't proper, psycho witch* exhibitionist girl. :p It just seesm to suit the lips (and the lack of armour too) although her pose seems quite calm, natural and composed.

I think that's one of the six reaper reds I actualy own so I might give it a try. I've also rediscovered the fact that I bought a pot of Citadel's terracotta paint sometime in the last few months and thought that seemd more red (but more muted and dull) than dark flesh and wondered if it would be a good intermediary between scorched brown, dark flesh and some red colours.

I suppose since I'm probably looking at the deeper vibrant colour (less natural) I should consider your suggestion. Currently the only red hair I know how to paint goes like this:

Scab red
red gore
blood red
the darkest orange
sometimes the next darkest orange over that.

That's exactly how I did GimpMask FetishGirl's hair and it looks alright. I might try out your suggestion on an unsuspecting victim to see how it looks. Would you recommend that over a white or black undercoat? Some of the reaper paints really don't cover very well over black.

I am actualy considering painting her hair white before colouring it.

I also think I'd better paint the recess within the shield first to save getting those colours on the hair later and having to quick fix it with something that's not right but almost looks close enough.

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Okay so I followed Gi-six-er's advice and here's the end result.







Now I'm not very happy with this. What you can't see in the photo's (bad monodirectional lighting again :() is that the hair looks way too glossy. I think maybe a little very watered down brown ink in the recesses might work wonders. I think if I hadn't added those last brightest highlights and hadn't inked it then it'd be better but after those last highlights it really needed inking down to save it.

As you can see I've also blocked in most of the rest of the colours and finished the wooden inside of the shield (and the axe handle that's in there too).

Wow but that photo makes the axe handle look so much better. It looks really yellowy in real life.