Do you know what happens to a model when it's mounted on a fragile strip of lightning?
The same thing that happens to everything else.
Storm is one of the all-time great X-Men, bringing an iconic power set and a very different outlook to either Xavier or Cyclops. She's never really been done justice on screen adaptations, beyond loudly declaring her powers. Curiously, she's also only a Threat 3 in Crisis Protocol, which seems a bit timid for someone who is literally a force of nature.
The model was painted as a subassembly, naturally, since I wanted to spend as little time as possible with Storm balanced on a single fork of lightning.
The black costume is from a millennial version of the X-Men, and is a nice amalgam of her original and 90s uniform. I would have preferred the original, and a pose that was a bit more dynamic (she's a wind-rider, not a static-floater).
- Costume: Black base, drybrushed with greys, then washed back down with Nuln Oil.
- Skin: Rhinox Hide base, with drybrushes of Bestial Brown, Skragg Brown and Knight-Questor Flesh.
- Hair: Celestra Grey base, layered with Ulthuan Grey and White Scar.
- Yellow trim: Averland Sunset base, Iyanden Yellow contrast, Averland Sunset and Yriel Yellow layers.
- Lightning: Ulthuan Grey base, Frostheart contrast, Ulthuan Grey layers
The other wrinkle was that the model has a tendency to incline to the left, which is very apparent as her pose is very vertical. I tried to compensate by assembling the model off its base, then attached it with a blob of greenstuff under one side to level it out (I'd rather the basing looked skewed rather than the model).
That's another X-Man done - only one more to go!
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