Hey all,<br />
this is a special project for me - a slight diversion from my usual historical stuff. I painted it for a little miniature exchange with https://www.puttyandpaint.com/MaGieMaartje "MaGie" Giesbers. I have always been a great fan and admirer of Maartje's wonderfully lively, colorful and clean paintjobs, so I was super-happy when she agreed to do a little mini swap with me.<br />
At first, it took me a little to find the perfect miniature for the swap, but since her preference for painting strong female miniatures is well established (well, she even wrote a https://ak-interactive.com/product/girl-power-poder-femenino/book chapter on that...), it was clear to me that it needed to look for a nice - and ideally playful - female sculpt. Add in that Maartje is a PhD-carrying marine biologist, and voilá: the idea to build a little scene of a female Deep One (Lovecraftian humanoid dwellers of the seas) taking a leisurely walk at the beach was born. <br />
I am super-happy to report that Maartje liked the mini! :-)<br />
The https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-nymphea-sunken-kingdoms-i-beauty-fantasy-pinup-187016original miniature is from the Fantasy Pin-up line by Artizan Guild and was slightly resculpted and printed by my Massive Voodoo jungle brother https://www.puttyandpaint.com/HanzPetersenAndy. Pics taken by Maartje.