Roberta finished

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Workbench - Roberta

Finished up Roberta's suitcase. This time I hand painted the belt straps :D I didn't wanted to repaint this the third time.

Roberta is all done, I just need to finish up taking photos of her.

Stay tuned :D

Workbench - Roberta

I've been very quit lately with no updates, but it doesn't mean I didn't accomplish anything :P
So I am going to add lots of different posts today. I hope you guys don't mind.

Anyway, I painted Roberta's eyes and hair. Glasses came in with the kit.

Started to paint her suitcase.

First applied some silver and followed up with some Gold (looks a little green :D).

Here is the decals I printed. Thank you for the people who helped me to get the pictures for them :D

Of course I had to mess something up with this suitcase. After I applied the decals and sprayed it with Future Floor finish, I let it sit for at least 24 hours. After that I masked the belts on the suitcase and painted it. BUT.. after I took the masking tape off, I took some of the suitcase color off. So now I have to repaint the whole thing again (^_^;)

Workbench - Roberta

Just a very quick update on Roberta.

Painted her guns.


Put her all together (well almost :D).
Just a quick test shot.

test shot with flash

Also, I just got a good news. E is sending me replacement parts for her umbrella in the next couple of days. Now I can finish her :D

Workshop - Roberta

Its been very busy week for me >.<
I've been working some evening shifts (again), and because of that I didn't have too much time to work on my kits. Plus I run out of primer ( O.o ), which is no wonder considering how much I had to re sand and prime all the Elphi's skirt pieces. Now I just have to find some time to go and pick up some more after work. On the good note, Michael's finally restock its supplies of Dull Coat (plus I had a coupon for 20% off on whole purchase), so I am set for a while now :D

While I didn't have too much time to finish much, I did finished up Roberta's stockings.
Since she already have lots of solid whites on her (apron and underskirt), I decided to give her a slightly transparent stockings (and gloves). I think it turned out pretty well.

I will take some more pictures on my day off :D

On the side note, I did clean up lots of ruffles on Elphi. It just I don't think it would be that much fun to post almost the same pictures over and over :D Hopefully she will be ready for painting soon.

Workshop - Roberta

I couldn't help myself :D
Roberta have such an amazing part break that I don't need to mask any part of her dress. So of course the second all the prep work was done on the dress, I had to paint it (plus I really needed to take a break from all the sanding and priming)

My client requested a black uniform for Roberta (in some reference picture I found she is portrait in blue, black and even sometime brown). Since I am making her stockings silky, the dress had to be something else. The more textures I have on the kit, the more real it looks to me :D

I have this laquer based Flat black paint that I just love (I used it for Caster's cape). It was a perfect choice for Roberta (if I say so myself :P )

The black was easy, few layers of paint plus Flat fixative and its done (I don't shade black). Her underskirt and apron was a different issue.

First I just had to clean up all the uneven parts under the apron. I know that most peple will not see it, but I can kind of see it. There was no "maybe" about clean it up :D

For white I used Icy White (it have a slight blue tint to it). I find that its much easier to shade white with blue if you already have a small tint in it.

Does this makes sence to you? because its kind of hard to explain >.<

Base white color.

Airbrushed blue shadows.

Pastel shadows are added.

The finished up underskirt.

All this ruffles were a really good practice for me for when I start paining Elphi kit :D

And of course, coudn't help myself, had to see how it all looks together :D

Workshop - Roberta

I had some fun with Roberta's base :D
First is primer, next is base coat for wood, shaded with brown ink and followed up with black paint for the main base.

This was way too much fun :D

Workbench - Roberta

Got another character from Black Lagoon. This time its Roberta.
This is a very big kit. Her skirt is a lot bigger then my hand (of course my hands are not that big , but still >.< )

Its going to be so much "fun" cleaning up all this ruffles 0_0
But on the other hand, look at all this cool design for her stockings and underwear.
I can't wait to wait to paint this beauty.

There is one problem with this kit. I received two halves of umbrella, but they are both of the same side. So now I will have to wait for replacement :(
I didn't even noticed that they were the same, until I actually tried to assemble the umbrella.
Lets just hope that I will receive replacement soon.

Revy finished

The finishe photos of Revy.
She was such a fun to make (even with her tattoo :D )