The Final Push - Lawnor approaches 100% painted

Mays community challenge from MWF, Nadia the Great Hunter seemed to take a lote more time and effort to paint that it looks like she should.  I’ve been painting around two 54mm models a week recently and it feels like I was working on her alone for over a week.  I can’t do feathers properly.  I usually rely on my airbrish to make wings look great and ignore individual feathers.  For Nadia, I followed the Privateer Press guide from the book Exigence.  It hasn’t worke dout the best, but I can see what its trying to do and looks fine from arms length.  If I have a few more boirds to paint, one after the other, I think I could get this to work better and then start to experiment.

The base was found on Thingiverse and 3d printed.

If anyone ever wants to make a model that looks fine, but is riddled in design choices that make it unnecessarily hard to paint, Mariusz is a masterclass in this.  See that armour?  Its near impossible to paint all the bone without getting some on the metal, and its near impossible to paint the metal without getting some on the bone.  Due to his shape and the fact that he comes preassembled there are soooo many places it is hard or impossible to get a brush with any degree of control even though all these places can be seen easily.  The back of his tabbard remains unpainted because of this.  I also found a few places where I could get my brush in, but then mid-stroke or on the pull out my brush would bump in to a hand and get knocked against another part leaving a streak of paint where I didn’t want it.

You couldn’t make a model this deceptively awkward to paint if you really tried.