Svee

Well here we are, the end of an awesome project and the end came around SOOOO quickly! One minute there were weeks left then all of a sudden I'm painting 15-20 hours straight every day to try and get it done lol. That extra week Gaahleri kindly gave us did me a huge favour as I was able to polish some bits that were a little rushed towards the end.

So this is my final post. This is a 1/6th scale figure by CA3D Studios on patreon. I printed it myself on my Elegoo Saturn 4 Ultra using Elegoo ABS-Like resin. I painted it using a mixture of paints from various brands but a vast majority of it was done with Kaleido paints. I used both my Gaahleri Mobius .2 and my Iwata Custom Micron airbrushes as well as plenty of hairybrush action. Using a combination of wash effects and drybrushing I used the texture of the model to create loads of textures and details. The example render from CA3D Studios has her very futuristic looking with a clean suit and tech. I wanted to go in the opposite direction and make her look like she roams the desert with her alien companion, a kind of bounty hunter/industrial worker type... so I wanted her armour and stuff to look pretty banged up. Like she doesnt really look after it and it's seen some serious action. So for this I added loads of rust effects and chipped paint using true metallic paints and various browns and oranges.

I used matt, satin and gloss varnishes on different places to add to the effects. For example, her eyes and lips are gloss, her flesh is matt and her armour and alien companion are done in satin to add a slight sheen.

If you want to see higher resolution pics and the 360 turntable video in HD, here is a link to a google drive folder that contains larger files...
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/137QHBfgINLy4_a3sgz93rSMZ4OPBIOsQ?usp=sharing

I have made a series of YouTube videos detailing the whole paint process for this model. You can find these videos here... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV6CuHET1Ono

A MASSIVE thank you to Gaahleri for doing this competition and best of luck to everyone who has entered something. There are some seriously talented makers/painters on here!
Svee.