I had pretty much sworn off Hero Forge figures after the sword and buckler lot because I was getting a bit tired of the low poly and cartoonish style of them. The capes and long smooth pieces of fabric were becoming especially irksome, as you could see the "facets" where they curved. However when a dear friend asked me to paint a little model he made, I couldn't refuse. Cassandra is a character in Tangled: The Series who was really meaningful for a myriad of reasons, and since he was moving country soon, this was a nice parting gift. The main challenge on Cassandra was that she was mostly all the same colour (am I working myself into a pattern here? Same thing happened with Black Panther). I decided to go with a cooler, deeper green on the cloak, and a warmer green for her gambeson, lined with a complementary yellow hem. I hadn't worked much with my greens yet either, so this was also an exercise in getting used to them. The darker colours like P3 Coal Black and Vallejo Model Colour Black Green were really nice and creamy and easy to blend with, but the lighter ones like P3 Wurm Green and P3 Necrotite Green were thinner, so it took some time to work up to the lighter colour.
I don't enjoy black hair very much, as I find that I keep making it look grey, but I think that just means I have to be a little sharper with the highlights to make it look glossy. Similar in logic to NMM in that way. For the next time, I might also try it with a blue tinge instead of using grey. Seems to work in anime hair at least.
For the final touch, I asked him if he would like a little inscription on the base, to which he jokingly replied "Cassidus," an amalgamation with his name. The heart over the "i" took me a few goes as I was pretty tickled. |