WIP: X-Factor Marvel Girl
X-Men Month continues with a WIP of Jean Grey/Marvel Girl in her red X-Factor uniform.
I talked a lot about this project yesterday, but kept the figure in a pristine shape. It was basically Spider-Woman, save for the removed web wings. Now I’ve taken the figure up to the construction stage, with the head and hair in place, and all the necessary sculpting done.
The face is from Metal Gear Sniper Wolf, mounted on the front of the Spider-Woman head. This is my third Jean Grey custom, all using this face. I use the cast system, just like Astro Boy! Actually, I shouldn’t make light of this, as I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time assigning faces to characters, making sure I had sufficient faces to do all the variants of a character I wanted, and then something happens, like this new Hasbro Jean Grey comes out with a face that will work better… I’d say it was wasted time, but I was at work.
The hair is from Phoenix; actual rubber hair instead of cast hair like I used for the 6-Month Gap Phoenix custom. I had the hair lying around after using the body for Rogue. X-Factor Jean had the biggest hair imaginable, what with being in the mid 80s and all, so I needed to use this piece. The Phoenix hair has a gap on the right side where the original’s ear is visible, but I didn’t have an ear to spare, so I covered the space with Sniper Wolf hair.
The only other sculpting was bootcuffs. Now to paint her up. One might notice that all the yellow has been sanded off, even some of the stuff that would have fallen under the X. I wanted a clean chromatic slate one I started painting, and never wanted to have to cover yellow with red (it doesn’t work too well).
I talked a lot about this project yesterday, but kept the figure in a pristine shape. It was basically Spider-Woman, save for the removed web wings. Now I’ve taken the figure up to the construction stage, with the head and hair in place, and all the necessary sculpting done.
The face is from Metal Gear Sniper Wolf, mounted on the front of the Spider-Woman head. This is my third Jean Grey custom, all using this face. I use the cast system, just like Astro Boy! Actually, I shouldn’t make light of this, as I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time assigning faces to characters, making sure I had sufficient faces to do all the variants of a character I wanted, and then something happens, like this new Hasbro Jean Grey comes out with a face that will work better… I’d say it was wasted time, but I was at work.
The hair is from Phoenix; actual rubber hair instead of cast hair like I used for the 6-Month Gap Phoenix custom. I had the hair lying around after using the body for Rogue. X-Factor Jean had the biggest hair imaginable, what with being in the mid 80s and all, so I needed to use this piece. The Phoenix hair has a gap on the right side where the original’s ear is visible, but I didn’t have an ear to spare, so I covered the space with Sniper Wolf hair.
The only other sculpting was bootcuffs. Now to paint her up. One might notice that all the yellow has been sanded off, even some of the stuff that would have fallen under the X. I wanted a clean chromatic slate one I started painting, and never wanted to have to cover yellow with red (it doesn’t work too well).
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