Next up for the X-Men: the original teenage sidekick with the potty mouth:
Before there was Jubilee or Negasonic Teenage Warhead, the duties of providing adolescent sass fell to Kitty Pryde. She went through a number of codenames before landing on Shadowcat (which has some relation to her name, and no connection to her ability of walking through walls),
Kitty also had an even bigger rotation of costumes (most of them terrible), so it's a mercy that this model went with the variant of her yellow-and-blue/black X-uniform, which is probably her most defining look.
Since it appears so often in superhero costumes, I'm quite enjoying painting yellow. This costume seemed brighter than most, so I went with Averland Sunset (the real workhorse of any yellow), then a glaze of Lamentor's Yellow (enjoy it while it lasts), then layers of Yriel Yellow and Flash Gitz Yellow. The figure is very slight, and would be easy to paint over, so I used the different tones to keep the definition.
The usual drybrushing for light skin (Bugman's Glow, Reikland Fleshshade, Cadian Fleshtone and Kislev Flesh) - I really should have drybrushed all the faces from the get-go. And the limbs were a mix of Kantor Blue/Chaos Black with Kantor Blue highlights.
If walking through walls isn't exciting enough (and it isn't), Kitty also comes with her faithful companion, Lockheed, a dragon-like alien who serves as an ersatz cat (plus a flamethrower).
I gave him a base of Xerus Purple, but the colour wasn't quite right, so mixed some Celestra Grey with Volpus Pink contrast and that hit the spot for the layering.
On to the next phase!
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