Tsukasa Bullet is a pretty popular anime artist these few years. His designs are really neat, and a line of his drawing combines traditional japanese war costumes, sucj as samurai, foot soldier and ninja, with large areas of exposed skin ^_^ Kacchu (armor) musume (girl) # 4 comes from one of his first illustrated works, and was skillfully crafted into 3D by French Doll/Cerebus Project’s. She was snapped up immediately when it first appeared in 2003.

As much as I love the combination of cool armor and pretty girl, I felt the kit’s pose was the typical stand-staight-stare-at-nothing type, which is faithful to the original illiustration. So after some brainstorming I thought making her partially undressed (exactly half and half), with a changed pose would make her more fun to watch. While I was set on the undressed-ness idea, it wasn’t until I worked on her a bit before deciding on the sword-in-the-sand, respect-my-authoraire pose. It solves the problem with the sword going nowhere (I felt that it should somehow be connected to her in the scene), and at the same time gives her a regal pose (thanks for the push from certain forum members ^o^).

It took about 9 month’s on-and-off work - mostly because I have a job that rivals modelling in the amount of excitment - but she’s finally done.