Head: Dr. Elsa Schneider, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Body: 25th Single Pack blue Baroness

Backpack: Flash
Gun: Torch

Honestly when Devil's Due re-introduced this character I had no idea who she was. Then I remembered she was in this really corny issue at the end of the Marvel run. I don't even think Larry Hama actually wrote this issue, or the Passenger 57, or whatever, rip off with Roadblock on an Airliner...

Anyway, she sicced a B.A.T. on NInja Force Scarlett and Hijinks ensued.

Way later she shows up again in the Devil's Due G.I. Joe series.

I wanted to make her, yet didn't want to. Yes it was another female character to add to the ranks, but there was no ARAH figure of her, and never the right parts to make her look like her first comic appearance. In her 2nd appearance she was just wearing the same kind of generic high tech armor crap that everybody else was.

There were plenty of other more accurate customs of her out there and I almost felt like if I was going to be that OCD and make her, I might as well go the rest of the way and make Dr. Biggles-Jones too.

No.

Well, maybe....

Anyways, ever since the blue Baroness body came out, it started the wheels turing... But there was that ugly "comic pack" yellow on her, and I couldn't find a head with enough personality that would feel like a complete character and not just look like a generic head on a blue Baroness body.

Then I found Dr. Schneider at K-Mart the other day. It really looked nothing like Knox but something screamed at me that this would work. I bought her and finally broke down and painted all the yellow on the Baroness body black. Added some silver, too. I cut Elsa's horrible looking Nazi Mullet off the back of her neck too. Repainted the hair and eyebrows a brighter yellow and went over her with a lot of dullcote first, then a little bit of glosscote to get a little bit of the light reflective qualities of the new plastic back. I have no idea why I started doing that, but I like how it gives the figures a uniform, sort of satin-like finish, so (at least to me) they still look like a new toy straight out of the package, and not like something I just painted in too flat, or too glossy, colors.

It wasn't until I started taking pictures that I realized I really like the way she came out. She kind of has this Techno Viper, Sue Richards, Seven of Nine feel to her. The body has a Cobra uniform look to it without feeling too much like she copied the Baroness. Does she look anything like the original? No.

Maybe she got promoted and had to stop wearing the distracting cleavage showing robe and tights she used to wear, I dunno. This just feels like she's all business, and a bit more reserved or frigid.

Maybe she got where she wanted to be, dropped the ditzy blonde super villian look . No more eye candy for Cobra Tech Support to look at.

I dunno, I don't care, I'm just glad I have another halfway decent, semi-cannon female figure to round out Cobra's sausage-fest ranks.

Half of these photos were talking back in November. The rest, just now when I realized I had twice as many B.A.T.s now and since 2 Blue H.I.S.S. and figured she would look good next to it along with more bats.