The last weeks I was tied up in work and festivities which kept me from spending much time on the forum . But I managed to get some paintwork done for the upcoming release from Reedees Miniatures. Steve asked me to paint the box-art so hopefully I can create some nice paintwork. It's a 75mm Fantasy Female Crusader which is sculpted by Steve.
I started a usual with the face, and this time I used some different colors for the skin mixture. For the hair I first tried a blond look but I was not satisfied so I changed it to red.
Most of the work on the head is done, only some small corrections have to be made. For the surcoat I applied the first highlights and shadow and now the blending will start. I hope to make some good progress in the coming days in the always busy December month.
Here are the pictures, all comments are welcome!

Cheers,
Marcel.

nice and different piece to make and paint ! i wish good luck !!

Costas

Woman Warrior in the Fantasy Range

This looks like a very interesting Female Fantasy figure from Steve Readdie.
I've seen a lot of pictures of it, and really like what I've seen. Hopefully,
Steve's new company Reedees Miniatures will get off the ground and become
a big success. I just had a preliminary look at his new web site, recently!

You have made a good start. The Red hair is nice, altho my personal tastes
would like to see the highlights in the hair even lighter. Keep us posted on
how this goes. And good luck,

Jayhawker

Very nice work Marcel
And a great honour to paint the boxart.

marc

Hi Marcel!

Great start! I will follow your progress with interest.
Congratulations for the box art painting.

She looks very interesting Marcel. Keep us posted on your progress.

following!

Marcel,
Very nice start on this fantasy.
Cheers
John

Marcel: you'er doing a great job on Steve's figure. Can't wiat to see it finished.

Marcel, an excellent start and a good choice to go with the red hair. Looking forward to following.

Cheers Ken

Hi! Marcel.
Great start!
I'm looking forward to progress of your work.

Mitsutaka.

Thanks for the comments Costas, Rick, Marc, Pedro, Dimitrios, Gordy, John, Carl, Anthony, Ken and Mitsutaka. Much appreciated.

Rick: I agree with you on the red hair. The photo's washed out a bit the contrast so I will give it a bit more.

Cheers,
Marcel.

Good start Marcel, I'm keen to see more.

your doing a great job Marcel, hope you enjoy it !!

All the best

Steve

Thanks Tony and Steve!
Here is a little update. I did some more work on the hair and some other small corrections. And I made a start with the heraldry on the surcoat. Now I have to correct the mistakes and smooth all the transitions.

Cheers,
Marcel.

Nice work Marcel, well done,the Dragon pattern is excellent, I am sure at the end this figure will be very beautiful,
(I think you must increase the speed of your painting).
Regards, Christos.