Next Projects

With Kyra finished, I'm going to start working on a competition piece for Adepticon.  I had two pieces in mind. The first was going to be this one, Himoko, from Studio McVey.

Today I cleaned her up. I also remembered that I don't much like working with resin. It's delicate under good conditions, and this figure isn't good conditions. It's very fragile, with all those thin strips. In cleaning it up, I broke three spots that I will have to try to fix. I may end up breaking more. I also couldn't get it a smooth as I'd like because of the various folds and sashes. I still like the figure, though, and my plan for her as a competition piece is still stuck in my head. So, I will keep working on her, but have a backup plan in case it gets too frustrating or too broken or something.

So, here's the current backup plan:

Still resin, but nice and clean and not so fragile. This is Jaheda from Raging Heroes. I may or may not stick with this piece, but for the moment I'm going with it.

My other project I'll have pictures of tomorrow.

16!

Here's Kyra, with the metals and base all finished.

Kyra: Scarf & Other Bits

Here she is. Almost done, I think. I've put shading and highlighting on the sash, belt, pants, and other such bits. The blue and green you see on the sword and other spots are an undercoat for metal - blue for silver, green for gold. Next time I'll finish the metals and then paint her base, and she'll be done.

Kyra: Robe, Sash, Scarf

Shaded and highlighted Kyra's rube, and put the base coat on her sash, scarf, pants, and shoes. She's coming along. I'm not super fond of that silver - looks too much like white. I may go over it with a darker silver and highlight up to that. I'm also starting to find the brown liner undercoat kind of irritating. I don't use black primer for a reason, and I'm finding many of these colors are taking many, many coats to cover the brown.

Kyra: Sleeves, Robe

Finished up her sleeves, including some simple freehand. Also put the base coat on her robe. She does look much better now with the blue on there.

Kyra: Chain, Silver Bits, Sleeves

Finished up the chain mail. Not sure I'm liking it, but the figure has definitely entered the ugly stage so I won't know for a while. I base coated some other silver bits and her sleeves and sash.. I think once I get the blue on her robe I'll get a better sense for how she's coming along.

Kyra: Chain Mail Continued

Continued work on Kyra's chain mail. I decided to go with true metallics, so I mixed some silver and a bright gold to get an intermediate tone. I put that over the beige and then hit the whole area with a sepia wash. Next time, I'll go back over it lightly with the silver/gold mix, and then hit a few select spots with plain silver. Right now, I'm thinking that is not going to give me the effect I was looking for, but time will tell.