WIP: Firestar

Yellow Week continues with a character that’s all goddamn yellow, and I have no idea how it turned out this well. It’s possible the year completion time is a small factor... but I did move in the middle of that.


This is Firestar in the outfit she wore through most of her appearances in the Busiek/Perez Avengers run. The base is a Street Fighters Cammy, with a MAC series 1 Buffy head. The sculpts back then weren’t scanned, and went through a bunch of revisions before getting approval, and ended up not being very accurate. So they work as generic sculpts, whereas modern Buffy heads are rooted in the actress likeness and look weird. Also Firestar has a mask, and that helps.

The Firestar custom demands yellow in the elbows, knees, hips, ab crunch, and the underside on the shoulders… these are all problem areas! And the base I used, while not colored in dark plastic, had no yellow itself. I tried an airbrush, and got a really smooth application, but then I moved and the paint chipped. I repaired it with brushwork: undercoats of a light yellow, and a finish of yellow airbrush paint, brushed on.

This is an important custom for me, as it was the first work I finished in 2007, after a long hiatus of being unable to finalize anything. Oh wait, I said in the title this was still a WIP. But all it needs is sealing; I’m done with the major work.