I picked up the translucent No Shelter Here at Wyrd’s Easter sale. After Ross came over and took the Bay Area Open with Pandora I figured I should get around to painting her up.
I kind of hate working with the translucent stuff. It’s brittle and is a pain to deal with mold and seam lines. You can get some neat effects with it though.
![Pandora](https://paintedguys.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/pandora_v2-1024x1024.jpg)
As I did with Tara, I mostly painted over the translucency. Only some areas are left, to try to get an interesting effect. On Pandora, only the smoke coming out of the box is left.
![Poltergeist](https://paintedguys.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/poltergeist_v2-1024x1024.jpg)
The Poltergeist’s entire lower half is translucent, although with some paint and washes applied to give it texture.
![Candy](https://paintedguys.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/candy_v2-1024x1024.jpg)
There wasn’t anything on Candy that I felt I could justify as translucent, so I just painted the whole thing. Her tiny feet were a challenge. They’re too small to pin without getting mangled. Instead, I used plastic glue to weld the feet to some plastic rod, which I could sink through the wooden planks and to the plastic of the base itself. I haven’t really played with the model enough to know if it worked yet.
![Baby Kade](https://paintedguys.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/babykade_v2-1024x1024.jpg)
Baby Kade’s knife and eyes are left translucent. I was really happy with the texture of the skin, but then I kind of ruined it with harsh lines in the final highlight. Oh well.
The Sorrows got similar treatment as the Poltergeist. Some of them really show seam lines, which are a real challenge with the translucent medium.
I think the translucent bits worked out pretty nicely. We’ll see if the pain of working with it fades before the next sale.