WIP: Bishop

X-Men Month continues with a modified Bishop. Ooh!

When the recent Claremont/Davis book premiered two years ago, I really liked a lot of the costumes. Nightcrawler and Marvel Girl had good original looks, and Bishop looked really fresh as well. But as Internet pointed out, the costume was just his original look with a shaved head (can comics tolerate a black man sporting hair?) and rolled-down sleeves. I like this economy of design: Bishop’s costume was supposed to be a uniform, so it makes sense that he would return to it. But the sleeves and the lack of a mullet effectively de-extremed the whole thing. If this is truly Alan Davis’s work, bravo!

I popped off the arms, shaved off the rolled-up sleeves, and added some milliput to obscure the flesh texture of the ToyBiz sculpt. I painted them in my best match of the original blue, then added some blue paint to the rest of the body to match it to my arms. The head got some sculpting to fill in the skull.

When he was almost done, I noticed that the gloves wern’t symmetrical. Dammit, ToyBiz, this isn’t a Spawn toy. Why wouldn’t his gloves match? I did a half-assed fix for this, because it’s Bishop, a character that really has to struggle to be something besides “the guy with the shotguns.” He’s already out of this costume and into a new one, one with shoulderpads and big metal boots and, I think, hair. I don’t think I’ll be doing that costume, because it’s Bishop.