Another figure complete.

I did NOT like starting this one. Everything seemed easy at first until I realized all the joins I wanted to hide then it became a temporary nightmare. Now that it’s over it feels like nothing, but at the time I was cursing myself and my lack of skill. This would be a 7/10 rating my satisfaction with my work on this one.

For comparison:

OH, and those bows. Damn fragile things those are.

Learning Points

CAREFUL WITH THE SUPER GLUE - A lot better this time compared to Etna, but there were still some spillage areas, and I was dumb not to check for them after priming (and fixing for that matter). The more I painted, the more obvious they become.



The hair - Good lord the hair. I could NOT get that spiral to line up nicely. A ton of glue and prying and my inability to sand nicely left me with this:



I’m still having trouble with colour touch-ups, as you can see, BUT it’s still an improvement over Etna (which is good).

Shading is still sparse, so the look of my figures still falls a little flat. In Takao’s case - especially her hair.

Positives

Well, contrary to her hair I am very happy with her legs. I was going for a more sheer-ish pantihose look which thankfully I achieved.

Here are some more photos

Questions? Comments? Critique? Advice? I would love to hear it all.