“Don’t be Posey, Be a Real Starr!” (Advent Challenge, Fem’bruary & Paint What You Got Challenge):

Lots of challenges covered in this post (that’s how I like it!), so as I’m getting a three from one (well two) this time I thought I’d better pick a couple of reasonably nice figures that represent aspirational women (sort of), now when you think of “aspirational” women who springs to mind? Mother Teresa? Perhaps though not really a great “gaming piece”, Liz Truss? Dear god no! (And who in their right mind would want to paint a figure of her anyway!), the late Queen? Well actually yes and I do have a figure of her too…bum I wish I hadn’t started this train of thought now 🙄. Anyway what I have painted this week are these two figures from my advent calendar….

3. Toon Realms Princess Posie Toon8 (Lucid Eye)
4. Villains pack 2 Double Agent (Crooked Dice)

So two delightful (fully clothed) young ladies, though exactly why the spy (who loved me 😉) is classed as a villain and double agent, when anyone who’s seen said film knows she is neither I don’t know, but anyway both figures were rebased onto two pence pieces (which have the picture of the “Queen” on their undersides…no? OK it was worth a try 😛) and I added a few flowers and toadstools to “Posey’s” out of greenstuff to ramp up the “cute” factor. They were then given a spray undercoat with black on the agent and white on the princess.

So taking “Posey” first, I started by painting her dress in a mix of Polish crimson and pink burgundy, which was followed by just Polish crimson highlights and then by more “finer” highlights of yet more Polish crimson this time mixed with a little cream. Then I picked out her petticoats, and other details of her dress in coffee follow by highlights of cream. I followed this by tackling her flesh with that old favourite combo of mine, European flesh followed after her eyes were added with more of the same, mixed with a touch of pale flesh. She has quite a few flowers dotted about her person (hardly surprising with her being called “Posey I suppose), and these I picked out with either ruby red with bright red or pink burgundy highlights or fuchsia with lavender highlights and a dot of cream at their centres. Pink burgundy was also used on her lips, and her hair I added in citrus orange, with lemon yellow forming the highlights here. Turning now to her base, the flowers here were painted in the same manner as the ones about her person with the leaves added in dark green and olive, and the toadstools were either plum with fuchsia highlights or bright red with terracotta highlights and spots of cream atop the tops. Then after her coat of “soft tone” (not light as I keep writing! 😖) Quickshade I painted her base in scenic brown then again, though missing the odd bit in scenic green before it was flocked in pasture green flocking.

Now as soon as I saw this figure on “Crooked Dice’s” website I knew I had to add her to my collection, as she is a damn near perfect representation of my all-time favourite “bond girl”, agent “xxx”, Major Anja Amasova as portrayed by Ringo Starr’s (see now the title makes sense!) lovely wife Barbara Bach. Clad as she is in that iconic dress from the “Egyptian ruin” scene in the “Spy who loved me”. Anyway when it came to her painting I started by picking out her gun and the straps of her dress in chainmail, then said dress was first painted navy blue before I went over this with my old metallic blue, this is an interesting paint as if I don’t stir it there is basically no metallic bits in it, instead you get a deep rich blue, I also added her shoes in this. Now talking of her shoes, if I met the sculptor of this figure I’m not sure whether I’d shake his hand on a wonderful figure or kick him up the arse for giving her “sling back” shoes!! I mean really! sling backs on a 28mm figure, has he no idea how hard these are to pick out, especially the inside of her back foot that is tucked away under her dresses hem 😠). But anyway, after this I went over it again this time stirring the pot to get a bit of metallic sheen in the paint and lastly I did the same again but added a touch of blue steel too for the top highlights (these look better in real life than in the photo sadly). Flesh came next and I again used European flesh as the base but I also added a touch of dark flesh as well this time, and with the highlights I just went with European flesh. Again pink burgundy was used on her lips. That just left her hair and I went with chocolate brown here and the highlights were more of the same lightened with a smidge of coffee. Quickshaded as above, her basing was done in my usual way (if you need to know how this is done just read 90% of my posts 😁).

Both figures got the usual coat of matt varnish, and they were done. So that’s month two of the advent challenge under my belt (this year is flying by!). Next time something more in keeping with Dave’s challenge, as I’ve dug out something I haven’t painted for an absolute age!

So till then, cheers Roger.

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