'Mercenary' from ByronM: Souxsie and Diesel

For this weeks theme round I pulled out a miniature that I have had kicking around for probably 5 or 6 years.  It was picked up because I instantly fell in love with the overall look of it.  It is Siouxsie and Diesel put out by Studio McVey and sculpted by Yannick Hennebo.  I immediately got that old school 40k / Necromunda vibe from it and had to have it.

However, I then saw how fine some of the detail was, and go nervous about painting it.  Over the last 5 years though I have improved a fair bit in my painting and with this theme being Mercenary I remembered her and went digging in my pile-o-shame for her.  I picture her as a mercenary for my Escher Jail Bird gang for Necromunda that I painted in the challenge 2 years ago.

I am happy I waited to paint this figure as I am not sure I could have managed as good an overall look 6 years ago.  We all get better over time.  I still think it needs something for a bit more pop, but could not figure out what that was, so left it for now.

I am not sure about anyone else, but to me the dog looks like Blue (Don Cherry's iconic dog) and therefore just had to be painted white.  It catches a little too much light in the images so looks a bit brighter than it is, it was just hard to balance enough light for the darker figure compared to the light grey / white dog. 

Siouxsie had to have an orange shirt to match the rest of my jail bird figures, and then I went looking for some other brighter colours as she has a very punk look.  The punk look meant the jacket had to be black, as did all the buckles and belts, but I added in some pale blue / turquoise for the jeans and purple for the hair to make sure she still had some colour.

For once I am even happy with how a figures skin and face turned out.  Despite being super tiny and fine I managed to get her eyes and lips painted and put on some purple eye shadow (the wife thinks I am nuts, but that's nothing new). 

The last thing was the base, which actually came with her and is a wonderful sculpt in itself.  I simply did some grey concrete and a bronze manhole cover and I was done.

Oh, and thanks to Curt for finally showing me how to take some decent pictures!  I am far happier with how the colours and shading show up in the photos now.  Previously, I could never capture a good likeness of the figures as they were always washed out.  His method really helps capture a better representation of the figures.  Thanks!