Another shot at OSL

 This is a 25mm Grenadier #8119 Dungeon Raider by Julie Guthrie circa 1993. A shift from my usual 15mm or vintage 25mm, but I purchased this mini when I first started up again, as I wanted to try some object source lighting techniques (never even imagined during my late '70s heyday of figure painting).

It has sat primered for awhile but I thought I would try to get it done for the Analogue painting challenge. As this was to be a the entry fee and a potential gift for another modeler in the challenge, I decided to push a little bit on paints and techniques. 

I preshaded with vallejos and then used the Golden highflows, with the exception of the armor, which I decided to use silver metallic, despite my aversion to metallic. I took some time blending the silver and it turned out better than I anticipated, especially with a very light wash of black.

The eyes took 2 attempts, but came out much better than previous. I can't say it wasn't more of a lucky stab, than a mastered technique. 

The washes I had mixed up were not cooperating, so I made a fresh batch each of black and sepia. Small dots of black on the helm rivets and lined the layers of armor. Sepia tones in other areas. Unfortunately the leggings didn't capture much shading from the pre shading I did, so I added extra wash to the folds. A coat of matte varnish except for the armor in the lantern light pattern, and then the attempt to add light.

The lantern light squares were painted with hansa yellow medium, then lined in the middle with titanium white. I went back and forth between using my airbrush or hand brushing the light on to the figure and decided to go with a makeup brush. Charged it with the hansa yellow medium and brush it out a good 20 times. Barely showed on the parchment paper - still came off the brush like crazy. 

Luckily I started with a very light touch, and it came out much better than Mr. Ghost. 

I debated darkening the back and far side of the mini with the airbrush. Everything had gone well to this point so I decided to call it, and added a last coat of varnish.