WIP - 1/6 Ming Yue

Like I said, I gotta do something besides sand, so I'm going to finish up a figure I've had for a while...

My next project to paint is Ming Yue, the latest figure in E2046's ORI Elegance collection.  This is an absolutely beautiful line of figures, and I hope to someday own all of them !!  She is by far my favorite one so far...

Prepwork was super easy, she was a near perfect cast.  Only problem was a small place on one of her feet that was oversanded a bit by the workshop.  A little putty fixed it, sprayed her with primer and it's onto painting!!!  

I HATE that color scheme (I'm just not a fan of yellow) and I'm all about different colors with figures anyways.  So I will make her a kind of goddess of twilight or something and go with a nighttime theme.  So guess what that means....

COLORSHIFT PAINT!!!

I <3 this stuff!  Like for realz!  This is some of the coolest paint ever and I finally have something else to use it on !  I've used it on my Elf Assassin last year and it turned out great, so let's see how it goes with Ming!

Ahh, so pretty ...it turned out great!  It's hard to see in there but it shifts from blues to purples depending on the light angle.  You will be able to see it better in final pictures...

Next I masked off the skirt portions and painted them an eggplant purple.

I felt a paler skintone would  be overwhelmed by the darker colorshift paint so I went with something darker, the darkest I've attempted so far.

Not done with the shading yet, but this gives you an idea.  Next shall be her hair.  I went with white, didn't want the entire figure to be so dark.  I painted a white basecoat, shaded with gray because there's already so much purple and blue, and misted a pearl shimmer all over it so it would shine like starlight.

Here's a little preview!

OOO she's really starting to come together !!!  Time to start thinking about a base!

I want to do something that would be mirrored, but I don't really want to attempt drilling into a glass mirror (she will have to be pinned and balanced on her base) and nothing plastic that would be suitable.  So I went with the next best thing:  chrome paint on a wood base.

Not perfectly smooth like a mirror but it will do for being wood, and it reflects pretty well I think.  I'm going to let it cure for a few days then I will paint a nighttime sky around the edges ...

Airbrushing is done, now for the little handpainted details.  There's so much to do!  I'm so thankful she's a 1/6 scale, I believe my eyes would stick in a crossed-eyed position like my mother always warned they would if Ming were any smaller...

More on the shininess in a few days I hope!