Life's a Beach and then you Dye

[Fabian]

Vallejo brush on matt varnish can be your friend in the hair situation. Great stuff.

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Stick around, FaceGirl, GimpMaskFetishGirl and ShoulderGirl are about to get an update too (and one of them's even finished :)).

[Fabian]

Brill!  :clap2:

[Bungle]

Black roots?    and a matt cote

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Black roots?    and a matt cote

Nope, two parts Reaper Red Brick (it's really watery and no ammount of shaking ever turns it into paint, same goes for most of the rest of the reds actualy, pity, they're good colours) and one part Citadel Scab Red and then I went up through the reds (might've gone to the second orange. Whichever orange I went to, it was a mistake).

I took these pictures on thursday and it's taken this long to get them uploaded :(.

[Custom_Hobby]

I am starting to like the figure now that I see some paint on it.

[Balgin Stondraeg]

I am starting to like the figure now that I see some paint on it.

Hey most of that colour's only a base coat. The green on both sleeves (yes I painted the tiny bit of the sleev between her left boob and the shield) is a full 3 coats jobbie including snot green, goblin green, graveyard earth, desert yellow and bleached bone.

[Bruenor Odinson]

Bit o Dullcote will sort out the glossiness, other than that I like the colour.

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Well I've highlighted the leg plates and painted her from the waist down now. I haven't decided if I want to do her weapon arm or the base next (base'd be a lot easier and quicker but wouldn't feel so much fun).

[Agentmolar]

Just a thought, perhaps a slight purple tint would give you the effect you need, such as shading with a dark blue black. and high lighting with a light purple. Alot of those goth red witch effects seem to have a purple tint to the red i think.

[Custom_Hobby]

Do you have updated pics?

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Just a thought, perhaps a slight purple tint would give you the effect you need, such as shading with a dark blue black. and high lighting with a light purple. Alot of those goth red witch effects seem to have a purple tint to the red i think.

I brown inked the hair and it didn't seme to have much effect (although there was a little of it). I might try purple but it'd be a big risk (and look hideous if it went wrong). Probably take a lot of work to get it just right. No updated photo's yet although I plan to take some soon (probably after doing most of the base).

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Okay so here's some new photo's. I'm not happy with the hair (in real life it looks a lot darker than the photo's made it seem), the metallics (blotchy and too bright & shiny) and the stones (too bright). If her hair had come out the way it looks in the pictures I'd be proud of it, unfortunately it looks a lot drabber and darker than that (with the brightest highlights really standing out much too much).











And here's a couple of pictures demonstrating how I need to tidy up a little slip on her jaw :( (but at least you get a better view of her face too). I'm also going to need to touch up that dark bit around thwe top of one of her breastplates as it should be bright like the rest of the plate.





And how could I pass up the opportunity to showw off the (incredibly hard to reach with a paintbrush) details within the shield?

[Custom_Hobby]

That was a nice touch for them to have the weapon on the shield. Sort of like my characters knife sheath hidden on the inside of his shield.

Try a dark wash over the metalics. They look good but she seems a little too bright.

[Balgin Stondraeg]

I might want to add some colour to the shield. I was considering blue (decided against it), green (didn't seem as fitting as the blue), red (too bovious and it'd be nice to to have her blend into one big red blob), and purple (dark purple).

In the end I went with an attempt at beaten up scuffed leather that just came out wrong.

Now I want to use her in a game damnit!