50th Anniversary Lady Jaye

Suburbanator commissioned me to paint a 50th Anniversary Lady Jaye into a modern-style Lt. Volga. There was a certain irony in this to me, as in 1997, Hasbro asked me to paint a RAH-style Lady Jaye into Daina, for inclusion in the 1998 Oktober Guard three-pack. Somewhere along the way, the color scheme that I came up with, which was based on Daina as she appeared on the back cover of G.I. Joe Yearbook #2, was rather heavily modified by Hasbro into the character we now know as Lt. Volga (I also had to come up with the name at the last minute). So now, I have painted a Lady Jaye figure AS Lt. Volga. Interesting way of coming full circle. I had to do a fair bit of mixing to match the unusual uniform colors, but I wanted to get as absolutely close as I could to the original Volga, and I'm pleased with the results. Thanks for the interesting project, Suburbanator!