#Fantasy general 2 iron maiden series#

To remove the flesh tone from the fingers, I used a paint brush restorer. For the scarf, I used a great Vallejo purple before coating it in Modpodge to prevent paint rubbing and flaking. I then painted the eyes black with white pupils. I then painted the upper arms and head silver. I used Miliput to fill in the head a little. I used a Dremel to shave down the joints on the body's upper torso and shoulders. Fast forward to the Age of Apocalypse Kitty Pryde figure's reveal and inspiration struck! I wanted to make Iron Maiden, but at the time (early 2021), there wasn't a good base body for her.

#Fantasy general 2 iron maiden series#

Ultimate Black Widow was a lot of fun to make, and I'm thrilled to finally add her to the collection!Īs a Black Widow fan, I was glad to see her get her own Build-a-Figure series to to into her movie, but, alas, we didn't really get any villains unique to her from the comics. I also had to slice open the trigger fingers so she could properly fire her guns, but that X-acto knife made that an easy task. I had left over Emma Frost arms from a Madelyne Pryor, and they were perfect, complete with their glove cuffs I didn't need to paint a thing on them. I used a flat black on her outfit with silver for the trim (buttons, zippers, etc.) and I mixed up a flesh tone for the neck. I used the Dremel to ground away the MCU sculpt on her lower torso and used Milliput to resculpt it. I ordered a new dry brushing brush and applied some red to the hair. Guns and effects: Target Exclusive White Costume Black Widowįor the head, I used a Retro Wasp head. And then Hasbro revealed the Sylvie figure, and I know what I had to do! So I put the idea for her on the back burner and worked on other things. Marvel figure, which, of course, wasn't proportionate to the regular female figure body, given that it was made for the teen female body.

I'd been planning to make her for a while, but, two years ago, my best option for the boots were the Gamerverse Ms. However, I am a big Black Widow fan, and I thought Ultimate Black Widow would make for a really cool figure. I tried to get into it several times (Wizard Magazine used to talk it up big time), but it was never for me. I never was, even when it was fresh and coming out. I'll be the first to admit, I'm not an Ultimate Marvel fan. For a nice added touch, I gave the 2019 comic Loki sword to Howard to mimic the cover to Howard's first ongoing comic issue, which also happened to be Bev's first appearance. After that, it was a simple matter of Super Gluing the hair onto the MJ head, and voila, we have Beverly Switzler. The red paint didn't really want to stick too well for some reason, so once I was done doing touchups on the hair and headband, I painted some Modpodge on to make sure the paint stayed on there. I then painted Gwen's hair red, followed by a reddish-brown wash. I used a hair dryer to heat up the MJ and Gwen heads until the hair peeled nicely off of them both. Head: Mary Jane Watson (from the Retro Gwen figure) And one character of Steve's that I don't see Hasbro ever getting to is Howard's girlfriend, Beverly Switzler. Anywho, I recently picked up a few Man-Thing and Howard the Duck TPB's what can I say? I'm a huge Steve Gerber fan. Shame I lost everything in the Blip of 2020, but life moves on.