Primary Mate Hawk
Hawk is Shae’s main squeeze. It is his first mate. I don’t know why he keeps his first mate around all the time. I wouldn’t no matter how grandiose her boozies are. Maybe she is Shae’s one and only. I know I’ve met the one. I had a few ones, but now I’m on just the one. Life is full of comings and goings. I think Charles Dickens said that.
Onto painted figures! I painted this substitute mate as a stand in for privateer press’s First Mate Hawk. The model is Reaper 02981 Lonnia Female Duelist. The reasons are obvious, so I’m not going to beleaguer this post with a comparison. As they say in construction management: See below
I kinda went overboard on her. I wanted to give her clothes something different to make her more like a swashbuckler of many seas. Overall, I am very pleased with her. My main painting gripe is her lips. I couldn’t get them right and to this moment, they still are missing something. My other beef with this model and all reaper models is their casting process leaves small imperfections in the metal, whether it be dimples or coarse patches. There are a few dimples on various spots on this gal that piss me off. Overall, as I said, I am pleased. I really tried to get the metals to pop and I think they do, especially the gold. Her shirts pattern, imho, came out great too. I dig it.
Leave me a comment and let me know what you think.
A cool model well done. I also think the hilt and hand guard came out great. I think something about the root color of the cloak isn’t working for me, which is definitely a personal preference thing, but it’s well blended and the freehand is solid too.
I don’t think I’ve picked up any reaper models yet, but I’ve considered it before. Obviously you knew about this before this model and consider it worth the risk/reward balance though, huh?
Mainly I get creeped from the zoraida model(s) and have considered trying a witch from reaper as a replacement if I ever start that army.
WombatJuggernaut said this on January 23rd, 2012 at 12:50 pm
Yeah, I knew the inherent dangers of dealing with the minis from the reaper back when I spent my haberdashery knights eaves dropping and doing other skullduggery task with our curmudgen weapons. Some people use that liquid greenstuff to repair the imperfections in the model. You can see some imperfections on her left side hip greave flap piece (the black pits surrounding the horseshoe). Its worth it (though) as most reaper models like this are under $4. Plus big tata’s. The other hawk model is basically an A cup. This one is a c+(+). If you haven’t googled tata’s yet, you should. (I) highly recommend it.
Thundernuts said this on January 23rd, 2012 at 3:37 pm
I quite agree, that shirt pattern has come out rather marvellously.
Von said this on January 24th, 2012 at 3:56 am