Ohmygodiamonfire

So, in an absolute fit of insanity, after coming come from my graveyard shift, instead of going to bed I decided "YEAH I'M GOING TO DO ALL THE MASKING NEEDED FOR LEONA'S LEOTARD BEFORE PAINTING" and spent like, a good hour or so before going to bed.

Then, after sleeping, woke up and imminently went to spray paint the parts. The lines turned out way cleaner than I expected, especially since it was the first time I've done such a complex paint job work on ANY kit or figure. Did need to redo the lower part of the leotard to bring it in line with her design though, which was even more of a pain, but it's come out well enough.

In addition, earlier I finished off her bangs, so that part of the project is also done and dusted. Still need to do topcoat on those parts.

Anyways, on to the limbs next!

Trying to figure out what to do with this site , since it's way more long form than I'm used to with SNS sites. So might as well use it as a more long form way of documenting my current plamo project, which is of my OC Leona.

Base body was decided upon pretty early on with the release of Kotobukiya's Susanowo from the Megami Device line. The highleg leotard look and the chest lined up nearly PERFECTLY with her character design. Course, after that I had to source some third party pieces. Muscuto on twitter is a garage kit seller who sells alternate pieces for megami device kits like hair and body parts, so I source some hair from them, garter strapless thighs and an alternate lower section.

After that, came the hard part, which was modifying the hair to all work together and remodeling it so her bangs actually look like her design. Modifying the hair pieces to work together was surprisingly easy, just involving some drilling and insertion of magnets to keep the parts attached yet removable if I want to change faceplates.

The part I thought would be hard was working with Tamiya Epoxy Putty to do her hair and...it was actually way easier than I thought it would be. Maybe it's because I've did tons of sculpt work back in middle and high school art class that it's one of those things I learned early on and just got ingrained into my body, but it was really, really simple. Of course I messed up by trying to add detail to the hair itself with trying to do hair lines, but that was easily solved after I realized how bad it looked after priming by applying a thin coat of the epoxy putty to fill them and then repriming it.

The jacket/vest was a simple thing, just bought a one off of ebay that came from some fortnite figure and then cut it down to what I needed.

Finally to my current part of the project, doing the gradient in her hair. Back and sides actually turned out pretty well, especially for someone who's a beginner at airbrushing. Front bangs...not so much. Fucked up and had to sad it down and now am going to restart when I get a new can of primer in

But yeah, learning and relearning tons of stuff during this entire endeavor, and it's been pretty damn nice.