Time to work on the skirt. While the original artwork has the skirt using the same Cygnar blues as the armor, I liked the departure taken with the studio model with a denim skirt instead, so I followed suit.
Denim skirt with white accents
Kara Sloan work continues with more work on the shoulders. I started out with the leather pouches on her large armored shoulder. As I was painting them it occurred to me that I’m not sure she can physically reach these. She certainly can’t see in them, it’s very odd placement, but I’m chalking it up to “looks interesting” more than “is practical.”
Shoulder pouches
Went with standard leather coloring from the FoW:Cygnar book and tacked on some gold buttons.
Time to tackle those asymmetrical shoulder pads! So when she’s getting shot at does she turn sideways and try to hide behind this thing, or what? Anyhow, it’s an opportunity to give some different color to the top of the model. I tried going with the FoW:Cygnar white color scheme, but it came out bland, may have to revisit the shading a bit. You’ll also notice I did the trim around the shoulder in gold already, but will be going back to retouch it once the white is complete.
Kara's big shoulder armor
Little time for painting lately, but in the moments I have found, I’ve been working on my newest Cygnar ‘caster: Kara Sloan. Probably going very close to standard paint scheme on this one, except I’ll use my ‘Jack Bone/Menoth White Highlight color for the white on the dress to make sure she ties in with the rest of my Cygnar forces.
You may recognize this repose from my article over on HCO: Simple Kara Sloan Conversion
I made the base using the technique I read about here: Brush Thralls: Slate Bases
The last few models I’ve done I’ve base coated the entire model first, then gone back for details. For Kara I’m switching it up and going back to painting each part to completion from inside out. This is nice as it gives a better feeling of progress and I think I’ll be less likely to miss things. On the other hand when you make a mistake it takes a lot more effort to correct.
Face and Cygnar blues completed