The Sisters El

I was able to nab these today at a pretty affordable 1700 php (41 USD), I say affordable because they both cost around 20 each, which is reasonable for me. Unfortunately while one item was in stellar condition, the other was scuffed and had worn chrome on the face, I've never had luck with the micro sister line so surprise, surprise it was El who had the damage.

Of course my first instinct was to paint it so I went ahead and painted El's face as well as Elsa's. 

The results aren't bad though it shows me that  I need to buy finer brushes again since it was daunting to paint the facial details with my old brushes. The lack of fine control means I'll be visiting the hobbyshop soon.

come to think of it I really dig the flesh tone look on the faces of my microforce Micromen. And I've seen a few stellar examples from Japanese painters that really makes me want to try it on ALL of my microforce figures.

Hmm. We'll see :)

A Steady Hand

Spent tonight making my eyesight worse and my hands hurt, but I thought this would be a great exercise to make my brush strokes more precise when painting these tiny, tiny anime faces. Someday I'll put up a step by step when I get real good at it, but for now here's the three-stage process of the painted face. 

The result's not bad, and I'm hopeful that it'll only get better at this point.  I no longer have to deal with  having the base gashapon heads looking somewhere else which is preferable anyway, and makes a good patience challenge, since the most annoying part of this all isn't in painting the eyes, but in prepping the flesh color of the face. It took a lot of coats to get it even, and the only enjoyable time I felt was when I was painting and retouching the eye details. 

pretty much making posts for every little thing i upload now

because it's been done.

modded the gauntlets for shoulderpads. it feels complete yet generic now.

another shot, she's starting to be my favorite now.

part swapan, plastic dyean

 I bought microsister Orga today on a whim, the chrome parts I can do without, probably seems to be the weakest in her line, but she was the only one left for sale so I can't complain. On the plus side though, I was able to successfully dye her clear plastic parts purple, and swap her head out with this gashapon lilith from this last post. Gotta say this looks way better.

It... kinda looks okay in armor mode but i figure i'll leave off the human head for it.  Looks much more henshin cyborg with the original head on in this mode.

now if only i could find time to make a SF III Ibuki body for this.