Freya: Pauldron

Quick! Change direction. Again. So, I was going to keep working on those funny bits on her boots. Then I realized that when her cloak is put in place, it's going to shade the back of the boots - thus, making incorrect all the fancy highlights I put in there, and any shading and highlighting I might have done on the metal bit. So, I shaded some of the back of her boot, covering up the highlights I'd put there.

Then I decided to get ready to attach the cloak. That means doing those parts on her left arm - the armor and the glove. The boots I can work on under the cloak if I'm careful, but those parts I won't be able to do with the cloak attached.

So I switched to work on those things. Here's her armor with shading and a first round of highlights.

I might also need to do the dress and bodice, or at least parts of it.

Freya: Weird Boot Bits

Freya has these weird bits going around her boots. Armor? Decoration? I have no idea. Probably decoration. In any case, leaving them unpainted while the rest of the boots are more or less done was messy and distracting. So I put down the base coat for the silver NNM that they will be. Probably going to finish them, then move on to her skirt and bodice.

Those weird bits are an example of the sort of thing that's kind of turned me off to this figure. What the heck is that? What's it for? Who knows. Regardless, still going to try to get her finished up.

Freya: Highlighting Leather

Got some highlights on Freya's leather today. I'm debating whether I want to take them a little higher.

Freya: Shading Leather

Got back to Freya today. Yay! Didn't get much done, though. I worked on making the shadows on the leather deeper and knocking down the shine from the glossy paint. There won't be much visible change. Next, I will need to smooth and clean up those transitions, which probably still won't make for much visible change. But after that, once I get to the highlights, the rest should start to pop.

14!

So, he was definitely rushed and is far from my best work. But he's done, and will be ready to be spray-sealed tomorrow while the weather holds. I do like his hair.

Dain: Armor and More

Continued work on Dain today. Got his armor finished and started on his packs and sundries. He has a lot more armor on him than I thought.

With this much armor and since I'm under time constraints, I went back to functional but not the greatest technique: I slapped a wash on it. On the leather bits, too. For the armor, I went back and put in highlights separately. I'll do the same with the packs next time.

Bones Interlude: Dain, Face and Hair

The weather is supposed to be warm and clear for a couple days next week. It's likely to be my last change to use spray-on sealer this year. So, I'm going to try to finish one more Bones guy by then.

Here he is: Dain Deepaxe. Got a long way to go in a couple days.