With Spike done I had to make a quick Buffy to go with him.

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I like what you're doing here. I have two bits of advice - the skin tones match pretty well color wise, but the difference between paint and plastic can be distracting. I'd recommend the thinnest little bit of flesh paint you can do - on the face, to tone down the plastic feel. You don't even have to paint over the eyes or the mouth. Just in between, and it will blend much better.

Two - for some reason the Marvel legs bug be for Buffy. That may be completely personal. I'd almost recommend Joe female legs - Renegade Scarlett for one - to get a more feminine look to them. It sometimes seem like they won't fit the Marvel plastic t-bar so well, but I've always been able to make it work.

But if you say 'go pound sand' on that idea, then at least consider shaving down a little bit of the lower portion of the hole in each thigh socket (I'm talking on the leg part itself). Do just a little at a time, until you get a feel for how much to take out. This will give the legs more range of motion to close together, I won't say to make it a bit more ladylike, but at least more feminine poses become available that way.

She looks great with Spike, btw. Are you planning to round out the whole roster?

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I was wondering what head you'd use, the Sur Richards head is perfect. I agree with Bindy the head could use some paint to match the both. Rather than the legs, I'm looking more at her arms. I'd recommend using X-23 instead of the original Marvel body. SMG was pretty petite when she played Buffy.

And she needs a stake or that sweet Slayer axe she carried in the finale.

She's going to go on my "do make" list. Thanks! =)

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It's that they splay out wide. Women simply don't stand around with their feet wider than their shoulders. What I've been doing is shaving down the inner edges of the 'taint', right below the hip pegs; to allow the thighs to come together more. Then I'll boil the legs while they're still on the fig and use a latex band to cinch the knees together and let it cool down that way. This reforms the knee piece so the bottom half bends outwards a tad, enabling the chick to stand with her feet directly beneath her. This *completely* changes the overall look of the chick, really emphasizing the hourglass shape tasty babes all have.

Then I glue the knee pegs in place (not so they glue to the knee piece, only to the outer thigh and calf) and fill them in with more superglue or putty to get rid of the ugly peg holes and make them look like the proper injection-molded joints we all prefer. Same goes for elbows.

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obviously you don't know the bars I've been too....


I think Buffy looks good. I have been trying to think of a good Buffy but yet haven't. I think she may be a tad tall though

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Like I said, women don't stand around with their feet wider than their shoulders.

And quit spending so much time down at The Man Hole.

And IW, I agree with what Keenan said about her face, altho you *might* be able to get away with just some DullCote to take away the glossy shine. Most people actually don't have identical skin tones between their faces/hands and the rest of their bodies since those bits are always exposed to sunlight so the slight diff in actual color doesn't bug me so much.

*Great* job on Spike tho. Stonkingly good head choice, or work done to it to get it that way.

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