Shadowsun is bringing sexy back... Pic heavy

[gareth]

OK, so Koyori (thank you for inspiring me to try this) shows me a really cool illustration, and I look at it and I think to myself...

"I have zero greenstuff skill, but i fancy trying that"...

Famous last words indeed... so this is the picture I thought could be my second sculpt (taloned horror has a fully sculpted upper body and head)...



So this is the progress after a weekend, with a few notes. Sorry for the huge pics, but it good for you guys to see all the detail and the flaws up close. It helped me as I went along to sit back and analysis each stage.

Heavily filed down legs, which were repositioned at the knees and pinned together.


Arms and head go on... its taking shape


Ut-oh, I hit a problem! Shadowsun's guns (I mean her weapons btw) are massive! I had to make a miniature fusion blaster to fit the scale.


2 Fusion guns and a bra later she hooks up with Barry the Shas La for scale purposes.


Armour starts to go and is proving tricky


More armour and the start of the hands, 2 pence coin really shows how small this piece is to work with.


Starting to look a little feminine with some hair.


Wrist mounts and jet pack added


The jet pack is made from 2 xv8 target locks, a devilfish sensor spine cut up, a fusion gun canister and 2 XV25 target locks, and an xv25 drone controller


And finally with hands and some tidied up details

[Trygon]

I like this a lot. Though the face does look a little flat. Can't wait to see it painted to your quality anyways.

[Utah Jak]

Wow. That's really really good. I like it, and I that's coming from someone with an undying hatred of the Tau.

[Hive Fleet Green Locust]

Simply put...Amazing!

[romorini]

I can see how the Fire Warriors would find her presence on the battlefield inspiring. Is there a reason you decided not to go with her original unarmored head?

[gareth]

romorini said:

I can see how the Fire Warriors would find her presence on the battlefield inspiring. Is there a reason you decided not to go with her original unarmored head?

Well the original is rubbish simply put.

Plus this one is a different style (more anime) so the original wouldn't have worked at all. I prefer this one.

[SteelTitan]

hahaha i love it, what a great idea! I have to agree with the face which is a bit flat, which might pose some difficulty to paint (eyes for instance), but that might not be so! Hope u can get started on the painting soon! Great job! Keep us posted with more pictures!

[Scizor]

zero green stuff skills? not really. looks great. i would have prefered converting the original shadowsun head but maybe it's just me

[Biowraith]

ahhh i evny your skills at green stuff.

[Folken]

Dude! Thats so amazing!!! Honestly dude...send that pic to GW man.....I think it would REALLY boost the Tau's sales lol! Also.....I very much envy your green stuff and drawing skills! Why can't I ever think of cool things like that for my Tau!!?!?!?!??!

P.S. If that was what ShadowSun actually looked I'd would ALWAYS run her in my army...hell I would even go out and buy her if she looked that osm.....lol

[rebmonk]

wowwww good job so far man.

i feel like you need to add a bit more to the arms as they look really small. otherwise a great job so far.

[gareth]

Just for the people that didn't read the post, I never drew it.

[Utah Jak]

gareth said:

Just for the people that didn't read the post, I never drew it.

I'm pretty sure it's from deviant art. I actually saved the line-art version of that a long time ago.

[nidaphile]

Wonder if that would work for my brood lord...

[Pheonix]

well i am going to say this inspires some interesting work for me (like my autarch which i need to build)