Diesel DM

I leave tomorrow morning for Seattle to attend Lock & Load.  I’ve signed up to attend a lot of seminars, everything from painting to sculpting to history of the IK.  I didn’t sign up for any of the tournaments, as I get to play so infrequently that it wouldn’t be worth while at this point.  I do hope to take in some open gaming in the Iron Arena.

I’m also looking forward to meeting the Hand Cannon Online staff, many of whom will also be in attendance.  My main goal, aside from learning lots about the hobby side, is to bring home a Stormwall.  If I manage to acquire one it will be top priority when I return to get it assembled and painted.

Lastly, I will be entering the P3 painting competition.  I hope to bring home an award, but I don’t know what the chances of that are.  At least entering once I’ll have some way to judge what is needed for future participation.

After pulling a longer than average painting session, Kara Sloan is complete.  I really like how the base turned out, though the pictures fail to capture it fully.  I did several washes of green, browns and reds along different areas that gave it a nice realistic coloring and variation.  I used Army Painter Jungle Tufts for the three small grass sections, they worked like a charm

Finished at last!

From the front you can see I Spitfire, Kara’s rifle.  It came out okay, but I think the steel silvers could have gone darker in the shadows, but I had a hard to time getting them there.

From the back

The back shows the scabbard which I really like the look of, along with more of the base.  After the initial gray base coat I did two highlights of gray/white dry-brushing before I did the colored washes.  After than I hit it with a couple washes of Badab Black to darken the recesses, then dry-brushed lightly again.

And the side

These pictures were taken just before I gloss coated her.  During the gloss coating she tipped over and the top of one of her locks of hair chipped of.  And I was sad.  So once she dries I’ll need to repair that, then return to the matte coat.

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

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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.

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