Miss Pumpkin Witch Finale

Just a few touch ups, and then glue the arm and hat on, and I was done. Not coming with a base, I just cut a little disk of foam, and then added some grass to it. Then with some Aves, I fashioned another pumpkin on it's vine and added it to the background. Calling it done. Thanks for looking. 

Miss Pumpkin Witch

After every build I usually clean up around the desk, and I notice this little mini which had fallen on the floor and got covered by a box.  She's Miss Pumpkin Witch, from The Predastore. 
Since Halloween is right around the corner I decided to move this model to the front of the line.  The 1/35 mini is part of the pin-up limited edition series. Mine was number 18 of 200. The model comes in 3 parts - the body/pumpkin, the arm with the knife, and the hat. 

As usual it's starts with a two tone priming - 

And then a base coat. What you're seeing here are the stocks before trying a smoky color. That ended up not working and decided to just take it easy and make a very pale purple stockings - 

 Here we have a few highlights on the pumpkin, skin and dress. I also started detailing her face. WOW it's tiny!  Thanks for looking.

Medusa Finale - The Scales

Well, I sat looking at the scales for 2 days, before deciding to go ahead and use them. I don't know if I mentioned it, but they came from Fallout Hobbies.

They are cut from a adhesive backed paper. You get 3 different sizes of scales. I used the smallest ones on her back, and the middle size on her thighs.
The first thing I noticed was that the adhesive works very well. So I stuck a section to my pants a few times to reduce tackiness. 
Next is to get the stencils evenly over the model. Fitting it over compound curves turns out to be a bit more tricky than I expected. 

I decided that I would go to the Chameleon Colors and used one that turns from green to blue, and sprayed. The paint went on w/o incident. The instructions say to pull slowly, with even pressure as to not rip the stencil. However nothing was said about pulling the paint off. despite reducing the tackiness, that's what it did in a tiny spot on her back. Thankfully I was able to repair that. 

Now I'm gun shy. Do I say "Nope" and just repaint the back with flesh and forget the scales. Nope I move forward and add the scales to the thighs. But beforehand I to the stick the stencils to my pants again. I put them on, spray, looks good, and in pulling the stencil off, more paint goes with it.  Arrrgh. I make that repair, and then for the thigh that's on the "back side" of the dio, I put the scales on backward - tacky part outward, spray and that worked. 

So it's done and I'm still not sure I like it. I will post again if I decide to get rid of the scales. 

 

Medusa part 6

The stencil for the scales hasn't arrived yet, but I'm finished with her besides that I couldn't resist a few pics. Now, I'm reconsidering even needing the scales ...
Thanks for looking. 

Spiderman Final

I finally took pics of the finished Spiderman as he hangs on my wall.  It's in a rather empty section of for now. But I was thing of getting some pin striping and make a little web behind him. 

Thanks for looking. 

Medusa part 5

I finally heard from the scale stencil guy, and I should have it Tuesday (I'm writing this on Monday). 
Hopefully my next post will show the finale. 

But for today, I did some more work on the snakes on her head - changed some colors etc...  and basically cleaned up the paint job. I added some layers to her hair which was really short of detail, and touched up any oops' with the paint. 
I also wanted to detail her eyes but every time I complete a part, I would clear coat it. The next step would be the eyes, but something else drew my attention, and I tackle that. Thanks for looking.

 

Medusa part 4

The scales haven't arrived yet, so I continue to work on the base. 
Turning my attention to the little pinholes, I was lead to this stuff my a model railroad guy - it's Chinchilla Dust. Evidently they like to take dust baths and the particles of this stuff is *tiny*!

It's in a mayonnaise sized jar, and it looks like I'll have it the rest of my life. Because the particles are so small that just a little bit of PVA glue, and then a sprinkle of this stuff, covers the pinholes without creating little mounds on the model. 

The white areas are the Dust.

From there, I let the PVA set up for a few minutes and then took some watered down paint, and was shocked how the dust absorbed in the paint and instantly changed colors, unlike regular sand.  The down side, if it really is one, is that some of the particles are "glittery", so if you just a dull base, you need to over coat it with a Matte Clear spray.

 Next, I went back to painting a few more of my snakes. I took a look at a few  different species and tried to match their patterns. 
Before ending this session I also added a few dead leaves (from the vine) to the base. I had added some Realistic water to help the wet look, and just stuck the leaves to the Water. 
Thanks for looking.