A thousand xenos enter. No xenos leave.
Welcome back to The Art of Caesura!
Today, we're continuing our coverage of Space Station Zero / Zombicide: Invader! We've already had "Time Masters" (my short story) and then looked at the NOT Judge Dredd character and today we have NOT Aunty Entity (Tina Turner's character from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome). In Zombicide she's called Madame Singleton and in my Space Station Zero crew and short story, she is Rhea Sol, my Ace Pilot.
If you're not totally sold on the idea that she was modelled after Entity, check out the promo image that had to be reworked for NOT IP infringement reasons:
No, you're right, there's no resemblance whatsoever! And the reworked (and final) version:
Anyway, the aspect of this paint scheme that I am most happy with is the skin tone. It looks a little reddy in the image below against white-primed rest of the model, but with the rest of the details in, I think it turned out pretty well.
For the skin, as you can see above, I used a bunch of my Scale 75 fleshtones: starting with African Shadow, I then mixed in Indian Shadow and also some Doombull. I kept things quite thin and then mixed Bugman's Glow, and Arabic Shadow to create a balanced highlight colour (with the warm tones of Bugman's balanced by the ochre tones of the Arabic Shadow to add visual interest). Rakarth Flesh provided a final highlight.
With the skin in, the rest of the model came together very quickly with Contrast paints. The trick was to apply them almost 1:1 with Contrast Medium and then build them up with successive thinned layers as needed. Her pants were Wyldwood and Contrast Medium.
To create the same visual cue as the chainmail worn by Entity, I mixed Skavenblight Dinge with the contrast paint Space Wolves Grey.
Her shirt was Skeleton Horde highlighted with Ushabti Bone and Wraithbone. The Hair, gun and boots were painted with Contrast Black Templars.
And then it was just a matter of final details. I painted her hair volumatically (look at shampoo advertisements and you'll see that the hair naturally highlights as a group, not as individual strands). I mixed Mephiston Red and Doombull brown for the belt and detailing on her boots and top. Then it was just a bit of Sycorax Bronze for the belt and gun handle, and she was done!
As I mentioned last week, these models come together really fast and, being such unique, individual characters, makes them a joy to paint and a fun break from army-painting.
See you next Friday for more on The Art of Caesura!
Reading: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (2024) - Jonathan Haidt
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A birthday interjection!
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