The End-less Story

Mgrrr! (>_<)

Painted the boot, I remove the masking material only to find out that the leg I "surgically" fixed is broken again!
At least the pin did the job, so I have to simply treat the crack as I would a seamline... but it's still annoying to have to redo the paintjob on the leg when I planned to have the whole model finished by tomorrow.

Damn Thai Resin!! (x_x);;

Pinned to the base...

...But I still have to paint that da...rling boot! (>.<)

This is where I'm stalled with Holiday

As I mention previously I'm having some problem in getting the second boot to look exactly like the first one... and I like the first so much that I don't want to change it.

The reason why I didn't paint them at the same time is that her right leg had to go through major surgery: the whole knee area is resculpted with Aves Apoxie and I also had to put a pin inside. The heel of the boot is also new as the original got lost when the leg dropped from my table. I also recreated the brim of her hat the same way becasue it snapped in my fingers ... did I mention this is a very brittle Thai? I guess I did! (^_^);

So busy!

Uff! I haven't had the time to update in a very long time... I started a new course of studies which kept me quite busy in the past week and I couldn't even work on my models much.


Here is a sneak peak of my Holiday... she's been almost ready for weeks. I really like how the hair, jeans and the leather turned out but I had to redo the skintone on her torso, so I'm not posting any photos of the front.


This photo was taken with bad lighting and the flash... hopefully she'll be ready in a couple of days and I'll post proper ones.

Haruka & Mitsuki - Finally done!

Finished! But I do want to correct some stuff I don't like, especially Haruka's socks.
More photos here:
http://www.hobbyfanatics.com/index.php?showtopic=12345

Ooops...

... I forgot to paint Haruka's stuffed toy! (^.^)

Haruka and Mitsuki - another work in progress

Almost done here... started them about a week ago (well, some minor prep-work was done last summer) and it's really amazing that it took me so short!
Here the 2 girls are being tortured for sake of the glueing process:


Eyes:

Left to do are the shoes, small hair pieces, some cleaning and attach them to the base.

My latest Yahoo Japan purchase

Just got this one a few minutes ago:

It's a 1/6 Yuna from Final Fantasy X. I find the pose a little static, but it's the only version I know of her in this outfit. I'm hoping one day to be able to display it together with the gunner version from FF X-2. Isn't her dress something? ^_^

Goth Dressed Devil Girl - Daylight photos

Not much better but... maybe a little bit? Hope the shading is visible enough at least on her legs, since the rest is in shadow!
I have some clean up to do, some dust particles were invisible to my eye but not to the camera's.

Goth Dressed Devil Girl - Part II: Painting

Today I managed for the first time to use my airbrush properly! I always ended up flooding the parts with color but today I managed to mist it as it should be done.

I painted my little "Hearthbreaker"'s skin (you'll find out why I call her that) and I also shaded it. Now, these photos suck because I took them tonight with artificial light and flash (2 big No-no): if I have the time I'll take better ones in daylight tomorrow and you'll see that the skin is not as pinkish and gloss as it looks now.

I used Americana's Mocha as base color and shaded with Createx Transparent Orange. It's the firt time I attempt something like this as so far I always mixed my skin tones and shaded with chalk pastels... however I find that with an airbrush the result is much more subtle... I'm really happy about it!

Too bad I have to strip and redo the skirt: the black came out very nice (higlighted with a very subtle purple) but I messed up the hot-pink frill and so now I'm soaking it in Vanish to attempt to do it again tomorrow.

More to come then...