I hate hot lights or continuous lights with a passion. It all stems from early frustration with slow shutter speeds and shallow depth of field.
One college assignment was to shoot with continuous light. So set up my three head strobe pack with three umbrellas and did my first image with just the modeling lights. Thereafter I turned the pack on, raised the shutter speed and knocked out the rest of the images. Teacher was thrilled with the work and couldn't tell the difference. It was black and white film by the way.
I have spent a lot of money to have strobe systems with modeling lights and flash tubes in the "same" position relative to the reflectors, grids, spots, boxes, umbrellas, etc. Now most of the time the difference is so small and to be non-existent due to the use of large diffusion systems. But, when I need it, it is still available.
I would suggest, a strobe set up with 250 watt modeling lights and 5 stop variability in the flash discharge with modeling light tracking. Then you can see the effects you are creating, but have stop motion both for the camera and the model, the depth of field you want and correct color out of the box.
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