Another Bad Squiddo mini - a cyborg

 I finished this Bad Squiddo figure off yesterday afternoon and spray-varnished it this morning.

She is a cyborg, therefore containing robotic/synthetic components mixed with a human biological core. My vision for her is that she is an ancient warrior cyborg, perhaps trapped for centuries on a forgotten world, the last living remnant of the crew of an abandoned spacecraft or perhaps the guardian of some long-abandoned habitat.

To give her the appearance of great age, I decided on a bronze-based colour palette, so that her outer carapace, which protects the small amount of biological tissue inside, looks like an ancient set of powered armour. I wanted her to look battered, with an air of antiquity, a relic of a now-vanished imperial power. 

I dry-brushed her bronze armour with some old gold paint and also gave some small parts of her armour a very light dry-brush with a pale green colour. I also painted some of her mechanical components gunmetal with a raw steel dry-brush for highlighting purposes. The coppery effect on her face mask and "hair" was done with a wash of burnt sienna drawing ink over old gold paint.

The scrap of green fabric around her upper torso is all that is left of a once magnificent long cloak.

Who can imagine the life of such a being? A flickering remnant of humanity forever locked inside an ancient bio-mechanical frame and covered in power armour of great age and complexity. What thoughts, if any would such a being have? Would she even be sane after so long? 

I must say that I really love this mini.