As I'd left it on the last journal I'd finished up the skin tone, got the armour and NMM looking good and was happy with the progress I'd made. That said I was still unsure about the hair, and after trying a few different ways of doing black hair I had to conced that it didn't look right on the model so I used the black as a deep shadow tone and moved towards a blueish-grey.
By keeping the black as an under-layer I was able to achieve an almost salt and pepper-ish look which I was overall pretty happy with. I filled out the NMM across the rest of the model using the same process as before and started on the eye-visor/lens. I glazed a thin coat of burnt burgundy aiming for the highlight to finish towards the top of the lens. Once I'd got sufficient saturation I gave it a filter layer of bold pyrrole red to boost the saturation a little further and smooth the blend out.
At this point I was pretty much done, I spent a bit of time neatening out some points where my brush had gone rogue and used a grey/grey-white blend to paint some texture onto the bandage and resprayed the plinth. At this point I was done if not satisfied, there are some places especially with the NMM I would really want to have another go at, I'd also want to try some better hair techniques as I feel it looks really rough at the moment but the overall result is below:
This was a really fun little bust to paint and not a bad intro to v-busts as a whole, definitely going to keep my out in the future for similar things to try my hand at.