I love the concept of the model but the most commonly used poses emphasized the weaknesses inherent in the joins for the numerous claws and the two 'body bag' sleeve/skirt accessory panels so I shifted a few things around and ended up with a pose that was stable enough for game-play and even survived a couple of inevitable drop events!
Shown here as a WiP with a WiP of Varseesh the Venomous for a sense of scale.
Among the swaps was the addition of a weighted base which makes her much more stable. The Body Bag skirts are huge sails that catch the slightest breeze and are also handling obstacles for a figure intended to be used as a game piece so I changed the contact point on the back of the model and brought them closer in to the body and tilted them to imply a swishing motion.
The claw array was also realigned with a pair out front and another pair arching over her shoulders. The front pair is attached to the main sword hands as well as the torso while the shoulder pair is glues to the horns making a stable point to grip the model by for moving it around the tabletop.
For colors... I'm still sorting out a direction for the lust elves... I've done a lot of them in red schemes but thought I'd give the Matriarch a purple panoply to mark her as special... as if her size alone would not do that! I've also retained this bright greenish hair that I used for many of the Blood Vestals. I'm an anime fan and it shows a bit!
The purple was Witch Purple (Reaper) with Pure White added to it for layering and highlights.
The Green was Verdigris (Secret Weapon) a wash of Green Wash (Secret Weapon) and re-application of Verdigris.
Next on the list, finish up Varseesh and knock out a small pile of 3D printed terrain for the Kingdom Death campaign.
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