Mini-Lola: Christmas gift for @rapid-apathy!

It’s that time of year again - in addition to working on MiniCoe 2 for the lovely @spoomed, I’ve also had another little Turn character in the works - Miss Lola, from that one episode of Season 4. I know, I know, she’s a little known side character from barely two scenes. But hey, why shouldn’t a Holy Ground lady of ill repute get her own action figure? There’s few enough female characters in Turn as it is. And I loved the dusky pinks in her costume enough to try and recreate it.

Mini!Lola looks far too happy for her humble (and probably NSFW) lot in life, but she turned out rather nicely, and I really enjoyed trying new techniques for getting Lola to look appropriately down at heel.

I copied her costume from the picture above from Rianne Steele’s Twitter

Her petticoats are tea-dyed, to give them a weathered, distressed look, as was the polka-dot net on her corset, to match the colours of the actual gown.  (which was fun, but used about three teabags and made a mess of my kitchen sink for a bit)

Her teensy lace mittens are actually removable! Mini-Lola also has painted stockings and garters, as well as some dainty slippers in black silk clay -that I forgot to take photos of once she was fully dressed. Silly me.

I am definitely proud of her hair. I’m getting better at hair the more I practice, ang Mini!Lola has a recognisable style! Even better, little ringlets and loose curls - which I really struggled with for mini-Anna.

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Stay tuned (or should that be Turn-ed?) for more in the obscure fandom arts and crafts line!

A Genteel Introduction: A Turn: Washington Spies Drabble (Idyll in Gunpowder Universe)

 The ever-talented @mercurygray and myself absolutely loved Lola in episode 7 of Turn. She’s smart, beautiful, emotionally intelligent and clearly deserves a spot on Harlots in a fancy brothel with a good storyline and character development - rather than a bit-part and a tent in Holy Ground. Which got us both thinking - What would Lola make of a certain paintbrush-wielding dork I write about? So we both had a very enjoyable tag team writing session which resulted in this. All credit to  @mercurygray for being awesome and writing with me.

There’s a few tiny future Idyll plotline spoilers in here, but nothing major...