Resolution 2020: Clearing the pile of shame

This is Blue Belle from Ouroboros Miniatures. I painted Red Belle earlier this years and really enjoyed doing a 75mm miniature, so I bought Blue Belle and Yellow Belle.

The wings came in a clear blue resin, so I left them off the model until the very end. The rest of the model was assembled and then undercoated with three different colours to achieve a zenith highlight. First I painted the concrete base with Mechanicum Standard Grey. Then I sprayed the rest of the model with Grey Seer. Finally I sprayed Wraith Bone from directly above the model.

The pale areas of the body suite were painted with a 6:1:4 mixture of apothecary white:talassar blue:contrast medium. I had hoped for a paler outcome, but the pigment in the talassar blue was too strong. I’m still happy with the outcome though.

The blue areas of the body suite were painted with a 1:1 mixture of the fang and lahmian medium. This was applied in two thin coats which gave me a very even coverage.

The remaining dark areas of the body suite were simply painted in corvus black.

The face was painted rakarth flesh, washed in the recesses with reikland fleshshade, then highlighted with flayed one flesh followed by pallid wych flesh. Her eyes were painted with pallid wych flesh and then the irises were painted in with teclis blue and the eye brows painted on with mournefang brown.

Most the hair was painted with terradon turquoise with a few streaks of volupus pink.

The concrete was painted with basilicanum grey and they drybrushed longbeard grey.

The solid areas of the wings were painted with two layers of wraithbone, then painted either apothecary white or tallasar blue. The orbs were painted pallid wych flesh.

Finally the wings were glued in place. Once I also paint Yellow Belle I will transfer the model on to a clear perspex base using gorilla glue two part epoxy resin.