Visions in Color #1

Now, a (not so) brief description of the paint job...

First off, let me way that I truely DESPISED this figure. I don't mean the sculpting, which is beautiful, or the casting, which is of the typical high quality I have come to expect from Reaper. It wasn't anythign specific about the figure itself, but I just couldn't "connect" with the miniature.

I have received the miniature just few days before the deadline so I have decided to use a "classic" paint scheme: normal skin, bat wings, red for the cloths (?!?) and green for the leather (booth and gloves). As inspiration I have read the Succubi description on the Dark Heaven: Apocalypse manual that say: "...Succubi typically serve as messengers, servants or spies to the Dire-dead, vampires and demons....

Here's a brief write up of what I did:

The only thing I knew I wanted to do was paint her with red demon-flesh and blonde hair (I'd seen the "blonde with red" look in a comic book and it looked nice - besides, black hair was cliche ;^). I also wanted her to have an "evil" look, so I went with darker colors than I usually paint. Other than that, the colors kind of came up as I went along ;^) Purple seemed a good choice, since it goes with both red and yellow, and black was used for the details and weapons to keep up the 'evil' scheme.

I decided that I wanted a reddish skintone, but straight red is fairly time-consuming to do over black. I toyed around mixing a royal purple and a deep red with a little umber until I got the tone I wanted. I built it up with more red and purple, leaving it fairly flat-looking (not so much as in the photo, but so it goes). The hair I did blonde, which didn't work, so I redid it in a dirty blonde that came out more or less by accident. . . I mean, trial and error. I didn't like the second sword, so I clipped it off.

Ok, I guess this deserves an explanation.

Painting Sirithis by Dominic Heutelbeck

The only noteworthy thing about the preparation of the miniature is, that the short sword had to be separated from the wing. The remaining flash was easy to remove.

Then the figure was primed white because I wanted her to stand out and with a lot of vibrance in the colors

• I extended the miniature´s base with some rock cast out of plaster of paris. Woodland Scenics has a few very nice rock moulds in different sizes.
• Than I glued the miniature to a pedestal. This is actually a turned round plastic speaker foot.
• The ember is made of modeltrain gravel.
• The whip was added after all was finished, cause I didn´t like the toysword.
• I also removed the odd rune like things on the other blade.

The Rob_Jedi approach to Sithris: When I received the mini I was quite a happy camper, the casting was excellent with little mold lines so I quickly got to work. The big question was what colour to do the skin since that's where I always start. I was flipping between red demon like skin or pail flesh like a vampire - eventually the pointy teeth and the idea of using this figure as a guide to painting skin won out.

I gave this lady blue tone skin to remind everyone she is an individual and not to be taken for granted. I knew she would have chosen red for accessories and never covered the gray in her silver hair. She is proud to be strong and old yet still sexy. The star field she stands on represents time and space. The skulls are crying for live lost. She is cursed with there ever presence but blessed with a short memory. Her eyes reflect white with a little gold sparkle.