Final WIP: Modern Polaris

Here’s Polaris in her modern costume, as seen in Uncanny X-Men. I already talked about the construction, but the paint and the cape deserve some mention.

I painted all the costume in the Olive green seen on the leggings. Then the darker areas, the boots, swimsuit, gauntlets, and headdress, got an overcoat of Tamiya transparent blue. It’s a nice effect, and while I wish it was greener, the color looks green by suggestion of the stuff around it, and contrasts nicely. This costume can get too green really fast.

The cape is from a Total Justice Parallax, and looks really dramatic. But it’s a really stiff plastic and was more trouble to attach than I can go into without cursing. And I would go straight to the “C” word with this one. I had her all perfect, and then got every gluing problem imaginable, and left superglue fingerprints all over the paintjob… I’m stopping, but every flaw detectable by the viewer’s eyes, I blame on the cape.

I thought this was coming together nicely, but now I’m just washing my hands of it. It’s done, end of story. Oh, and that's a modern Havok in the picture. I'll give him a post next week.