Let's talk about painting, or: The Crab Clan Project

[Selya]

<p><font face="comic sans ms,sand" color="#660099" size="2">OK, so it seems I got myself a commission...</font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#660099" size="2">A dear friend of mine, who is an avid player of <em>Legend of the 5 Rings</em> (the RPG, not the tabletop tactical game) wants me to paint her PC, a Crab Clan female samurai called Mayumi. </font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#660099" size="2">So, here it starts! I've picked this miniature for the project - a 54 mm model by Pegaso Models, an Italian manufacturer of historical minis (and the occasional scantily clad female). At this stage the mini is cleaned, filled (there was a nasty gap on her back, at the joint of the two halves of her outer kimono) and primed white. </font></p><address><img title="Pegaso Modela Female Samurai Warrior" height="367" alt="Pegaso Modela Female Samurai Warrior" src="http://www.pegasomodels.it/prodotti/big/54-218_1.jpg" width="280" align="middle" border="0" /></address><address><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2" /></address><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#660099" size="2">Then I got myself this resin Tori Gate (again from <em>Pegaso Models</em>):</font></p><address><img title="Pegaso Models' Tori Gate" height="275" alt="Pegaso Models' Tori Gate" src="http://www.pegasomodels.it/prodotti/big/ASM-020_1.jpg" width="208" align="middle" border="0" /></address><p><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="2"><font color="#660099">And finally, I ordered this wooden plinth, engraved with Crab Clan's <em>mon</em>:</font> </font></p><p><img title="Plinth" height="288" alt="Plinth" src="http://photos.imageevent.com/vidja/ebay/websize/DSCN1434.jpg" width="241" border="0" /></p><p><font face="comic sans ms,sand" color="#660099" size="2">Wish me good luck...</font></p><address><font face="comic sans ms,sand" /></address>