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well, except for trolls I haven't painted bigger models yet, so the time had come... they are different in painting than smaller models, that's true.
Extreme highlighting doesn't work well and looks weird... but I still painted her with a bir unreal elements. It's all because of the little thing in her hand - how could I make her realistic if she's holding a bird which has arms?

So my "woman with a bird" (because it's what I called her) was supposed to look like an English woman, but I changed my mind after I noticed some exotic features on her face after priming the mini.

I've never been to Thailand but that's what I imagine Thai women to look like...

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It's 54mm tall and was made by Hasslefree Miniatures
Painting her was a nice break from painting space marines

please vote (high) for her on CMON

wow! I love the skin colouration you managed to get. Its very very beautiful. The bird is fantastic too! the only thing I don't like is the hair but its not too bad. Good job getting the base so close to the wood colour too!

I like it a lot. The skin is very smooth and, in contrary to fatgoblin, I like the hair.
But there are two minor spots that struck my eye.
First the inside of the egg looks odd. I don't know about eggs in fantasy worlds, but eggs in the real world are white inside. Thus I would have expected it to be white, too. Maybe it's not important, but it disturbs my sense of correctnes (I'm german... ).
The second is her left (for the viewer right) breast. There is a very sharp linie of one of the highlights. This doesn't fit the quality of the rest.
Apart from that, I think it is a great Mini.

Wow, very nice Ana! To me she has more of a Hawa?an feel...

Now thats a woman! really beautifull and your work on the skin is one of the best brownish skin tones ever... im in love.

I don't really dig the hair, but the rest is great. Lovely skintone. sexy sexy

I like the overall paintjob and ya, like a Hawaiian more than a Thai woman. Honestly, to me, the Thai people do not have that dark skin tone, may be the photo makes it darker than the real mini. I like the jar

I love the skin, the brown is just a tone that is unseen in most minis. I agree that she looks more Hawaiian, or just an extremely well tanned person.

KU