Its a WiP kinda day. Its been a hectic week mostly doing clean up and priming the Lulus from the TGG Kickstarter Wave 1. All of the casts cleaned up quickly except the Butterfly Lulu. It requires a lot of careful excavation of a large area that connects the bottom of her teddy bear toy to her cape fight in front. There is also a tricky hand that is buried in a casting vent and has to be very carefully revealed. Its a great model anyway and is worth the effort! I've gone with a White undercoat for this faction unlike for the Iron Empire. I'm finding the black undercoat made it difficult to see the detail. The Jailbirds will be inevitably brighter than the Iron Empire and I'm still undecided about the way forward with the Kurganovas.
Just in case you thought the Lulus were alone There is a tree of metal One Shot Blondie and Mad Nurse Bernadette to keep them company.
The Jailbirds also get a different base treatment from the Iron Empire. I think these came from Base X War but the site is closed making it hard to confirm. These are some nice battle damaged streets and I'll have to get more as the project develops.
Finally comes the Undead Giant Colossal Skeleton from the Reaper Bones I Kickstarter. This was pretty quickly done using Secret Weapon Sewer Water Wash over White Primer followed by two layers of drybrushing from the Reaper Bone Triad. Vallejo Light Sand for ropes and bandages washed with Gryphonne Sepia from GW and then glazed with Ruby Red wash from Secret Weapon. The stone Hammer is a concrete wash from Secret Weapon dry brushed with Reaper Grey Triad. I experimented a bit more with GW technical paints for a glowing eye-socket effect but it initially looked a lot more like some weird jade colored sun shades! I may still have to rework that a bit.
The biggest challenge with this model has been the very flexible nature of the Bones material. the thing wobbles and shakes whenever its touched or picked up. Gluing the hammer to the base helped a lot but the awkwardly extended left arm is highly mobile. Might be a blessing in disguise since its bound to take impacts on the arm which just flexes out of the way. Time will tell if droop is going to be an issue. It also did not take the primer gracefully and remained tacky for several days. I'm currently working out a base for it and plan to try out that GW technical paint that cracks as it dries.
