Next project: this will be the last of the Arena Rex minis for this year. This is Euryale, the third gorgon. She's tall and I have her on a tall holder, so I might have to adjust my photo setup a bit. Anyway, I got a base coat on the pillar, and that's it so far.
Finished her! I want to give her a coat of spray matte varnish, since the different brands of paint I used have different gloss levels, which makes it looks a little weird. I'll get final pictures once I've done that and taken the tape off the plinth.
Finished the wings and attached her tail. I just have to finish the tail now. Definitely should be done this month. Woo!
Finished the highlights on her main body and the base work on her wings (mostly), and got the wings attached. I need to go back and do some more work on some of the transitions on the wings. Still, good progress, I think. I wasn't thinking I'd get her done this month, but now I think it's a possibility.
Got a first round of highlight on the rest of her skin. Also base coated the wings and tail, which are not attached. I'll start attaching once the main body is done.
Got some shading and highlighting on the horns. Not sure it's entirely effective, but I'm going to move on. Skin highlights next.
Back to the demon. I futzed with her hair some more and got a base coat on the horns, including the gradient. I'll finish the horns and then get back to her skin.
Finished her armor, blades, and then shaded and glued on the other parts of her veil. I need to finish the veil and base, and then she's done. One more session, maybe two if it takes a long time to fix up the joints where the two veil pieces are attached.
I spent a while determining if I could put on the rest of the bits, and decided it'd be better to get them at least partly painted first. So I base coated them, but they are not pictured. I also painted her left hand and got a base coat on the armor bits on her arms. Next will be finishing the armor and doing the blades, then shading the missing bits and attaching them.
Finished off her dress, got a base coat and shading on her shawl/wrap thing (there are pieces of that still to be attached) an then glued her other hand in place. Next time I'll check and see if I can put the other shawl pieces on or if I need to paint the arms first.
Did the gold scale(?) mail, shaded the dress, and had a couple minutes to put a base coat on the sandals. I need to smooth out the shading on the dress. The goal is to get the upper part of her body painted so I can glue her other hand on, so next time will be fixing the shading on the dress, highlighting at least that upper portion, then base coating and maybe shading part of her wrap thing so I can glue on her hand.
Highlighted Daphne's skin and did her face and hair, then base coated the dress. There's actually a little pony-tail piece that's supposed to be attached to the rest of her hair at the back of her neck, but it didn't fit well and had a slim chance of staying in place so I just left it off. It's a lot of green on the dress, but some of it is just an undercoat for bronze in those areas with all the little circular depressions. I think it's supposed to look like scale mail or something. Weird, I know. Worse when you realize that textured stuff goes under the bodice of the dress.
I don't like doing hair. It's like eyes; you can spend forever futzing with it, going back and forth with how much highlight and how bright, too much intermediate lighter tones and then not enough. Anyway, I worked on highlights on her hair tonight. I thought I was fine with it, but now I think I need to bring up the final highlight; it's theoretically white but doesn't look it.
Put a round of highlight on the demon's hair. Lots of tweaking to go yet.
Also started my next gladiator. This is Daphne. I based and shaded her skin tonight.
Did her eyes, and then base coated the hair and did her eyebrows. The paint I picked for the hair didn't cover well and needed a number of coats to cover well. I'm kinda regretting using shading colors on her skin that are so desaturated. But I'm pretty happy with the eyes.
With her arm in place, I painted the arm band and then went on to her face. Usually I get all the skin highlighted all the way before doing face details, but I really wanted to see her face complete, so I did the highlights on her face and then started face details. Obviously, it's not done yet.
I'm using Army Painter Fanatic paints for the first time on this model, and so far I don't love them. They have a glossier finish than I like, and when I thinned them for applying highlights and glazing transitions they got chalky real fast. It might be a matter of learning how to work with them so I haven't given up yet.
Got highlights on her bra so that I could glue on her arm, which I did right after getting these pictures. Pretty happy with the result. Question wearing a metal bra, but here we are.
I based and shaded the bra, so I can get that done and glue her arm on. I'm not real thrilled with how dark it is, so I'll probably go heavy on the next couple lighter colors.
