WIP: Giant Girl

Avengers Month begins with this is WIP for Giant Girl from Marvel Adventures: Avengers. Do people call it MAA yet? They should, because I want to talk about the book all the time, and such an abbreviation will save seconds an iteration and will really add up. HAIL MAA!

I think I started this WIP about a year ago, when 12” rotocast Invisible Woman figures were clearanced. I only had some vague ideas about what to use it for… Stature had just premiered in Young Avengers, and Wasp had gotten a growing power just before Avengers: Disassembled; and then there’s Elasti-Girl, LeVIathan, and Giganta on the DC side. Giant characters just look great on a shelf, and I had this cheap base that was tantalizingly close to Marvel Legends posability. It was just missing some kind of torso joint and better hips.

So I went about improving this figure more out of a desire to do some engineering more than working towards a particular character. It’s very academic customizing; this is what one does when they have a terminal fear of finishing projects. I took the legs and glued them in place, then cut into the front of the groinacological area below the waist joint. I added in hips from an ML9 First Appearance Hulk. A Hulk figure is like a 10” or 12” figure that’s been squished down to 7 inches tall… but compare the hands, feet, hips, or breadth of shoulders to, say Galactus. They pretty much match. Before the Wal-Mart wave and Legends Icons made giant figures kind of trivial to do, I wanted to make a Hank Pym from Galactus, using Hulk parts to get around the Kirby techno-details. And it would have worked!

So after the hips were added to the torso and the legs rejoined, I finished the sculpt with plumbers putty and sanding off the lines of the uniform. There’s still some costume details to add to make her Giant Girl, like rubber bands for stripes and antennae, but I’m going to add those after I spray it red.