This is Brina. Brina has a backstory, if you care to read that mess - it's with the final images at the end of this post.
Making of Brina
Weird backstory aside - I designed this character to practice doing something with a dress or long fabric attached to it somehow - everything else sort of came afterwards...
Although I would later lose detail - the plan was to sculpt a form of the dress over a wire mesh - take a rough casting from it and then use that as something I could pull vacuformed pieces from to get something with a consistant thickness.
Her face started weird and changed may times, she always looked a bit upset.
The Mask
Thought the idea of her wearing a stone-faced mask would be quite interesting - with a sort of cracked paint finish to it. For this effect I used a Citadel texture paint with a weird name - it's called Agrellan Earth or something. You put it on pretty thick and as it dries it cracks - sealed with a bit of laquer and hey presto.
The Sword
The sword is made from clear acrylic with two LED's buried inside. Copper tape runs down the length on either side and connects to a single 3V coin cell battery housed in the body of the sword which is open on both ends to facilitate easy removal and replacement.
Painting and Finishing
The Finish Line
I did a few versions of Brina - to experiment with some different colours.
The thrilling backstory,
Chapter 1.
'wow.'
Once not all that long ago - the Tuesday just gone in fact, there existed a young woman named Brina. Once while out walking Neville - her pet snake - she happened upon a suspicious cave entrance - suspicious as it had appeared only the day before and made spooky sounds as one grew closer.
Brina resolved to explore this cave for no other reason only that her life was terribly boring and needed some spicing up. Having been inside the cave for nearly 6 minutes exactly Neville - her MAGIC snake (should have mentioned that he was also Magic, sorry) spied an unassuming pile of rocks with a rod sticking out from them. He'd have thought nothing of it - but it seemed to hum to the tune of 'The Magic Roundabout'. Brina, drawn by Neville's interest in a pile of rocks moved closer and wrapped her hands around the rod which protruded from the pile of crap and suddenly - almost too suddenly - a great surge of vivid energy sprang from the rod and collected around the pile of rocks pulling them into alignment and causing them to float - of course.
"wow." said Brina - because her dad was Owen Wilson.
"hiss..." said Neville because he was a snake - I said he was magic, not that he could talk.
What formed within this energy looked to be a column of rocks. Brina lifted the rod towards her and was slightly shocked that it had almost no weight to it. Those spin classes were really starting to have an effect she thought. She gave it a little waggle from side to side and the rocks followed suit - as if the rod and the rocks were now one entity.
"uckkk" said Brina because she was alone with her snake and made weird noises with her mouth sometimes.
Brina had in fact happened upon an ancient stone sword, an item of tremendous power - but she neither cared or was impressed enough by it to try to understand it too much or why it was there in the first place and simply walked out of the cave with the sword haphazardly stuffed into her rucksack. It was sticking out all over the place, what a mess.
As time passed the sword exerted some sort of hold over Brina and she began to handle it with more care and interest with each passing day. The sword belonged to her and she too began to hum the theme from 'The Magic Roundabout'
As for the face mask and other gear she wears now? That's another story and it goes like this - she found that stuff. The end?
