Girls in Action series - "Vesty"

"Vesty" - from the Girls In Action series.

Here is a 1/20th figure - a nice size to work with and a good compromise between the 1/35th and 1/16th figures from the same studio. In fact, they only have one 1/16th and that is "Cassie", a figure I've already done and featured here.

This one depicts a female para-military and she is shown stretching and yawning and, once again, the detail is very fine.

So fine, in fact, that it wasn't after until I had cleaned, primed and undercoated her (as shown here) that I noticed her upper teeth and her tongue had been modelled!
That is amazing on a casting of this size.

(Photo above taken with a DJI Osmo Pocket camera).

I am so used to the days of white-metal castings from the 1980s that I am still being gobsmacked by what is being achieved today in resins, both 3D-prints and castings.

(Photo above taken with Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ40)

Vesty is currently undergoing preparation for finishing in Vallejo "Air" acrylics.
What you see here was assembled from eight pieces - two legs, two feet, waist belt, torso & head, two arms. There is also a cap (seen in photo immediately above), a pony-tail and four items to hang off the belt.

There was a bit of filling and smoothing to be done between the torso, belt and legs and also where the arms join the armpits - nothing major and all done using Gunze "Mr. Surfacer 500".
Once the undercoats are perfectly dry and hard she'll be washed down again and final painting will be started.

More to follow.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Felicia "Under Construction".

Image
Felicia "Under Construction"! The last post included a couple of pix of "Felicia" (steampunk gunslinger) in grey primer and the mention that I would post an update during the painting process. Well, the prime base colours were done using Vallejo's acrylics, the "Air" versions, designed primarily for air-brushing. However, they work beautifully when brushed on in thin layers. Once they had dried for several days I cleaned the figure with kitchen detergent and then proceeded to apply the finishing coats in artists oils - a mix of Winsor & Newton and Reeves, which I've had for years. So today I can present the following photos, taken last night, and also posed in the same positions as the grey undercoat shots so that you can compare the changes. If you click on them they will open with a much larger image. Once I've finished Felicia I'll post another update. In the meantime there is much fine detail to be completed....ver
Read more

Eowyn, from Lord of the Rings.

Image
Eowyn is a character who features in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings fictional works and in two of Peter Jackson's movies, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King . In both cases she is played by Miranda Otto, and the 1/6th action figure shown above (by Asmus Toys) is a likeness of that character.   My figurine (above, and following) is from Garfie's Games, an eBay store, is 3-D printed and is in 1/12th scale. Yesterday I finished the cleaning process and then primed the figure, ready to start painting. As per the previous figures featured in this blog, I am using Vallejo's "Model Air" acrylics and the very first thing I did was to give Eowyn a wash of thin black. This has the effect of lightly shading the tiny recesses, clefts and creases in the chain-mail and the coarse-weave under garment. Once thoroughly dry I will start on the colour washes. More to follow as work progresses.
Read more

Eowyn - Starting the finishing painting.

Image
  It's early days yet, but I have started doing the finishing painting and I'm using oils. Today the first touches were applied to her hair and also the start of her face and neck....the only bare skin on the whole figure. She now has at least a bit of colour in her cheeks!  Much to be done yet. I'll start on the leather next.
Read more