Nightwing is one I've been planning on for a long time. Since I still prefer even my heroes to mostly be more Joe scaled than MU scaled (with exceptions), finding the right parts was tough. He had to be bigger than my Robin, shorter than Batman, and be dressed in a way that evoked more than just images of spandex.
Then I found Retaliation Zartan. Really was just what I needed. The legs didn't work - too tall, and unarticulated. So I swapped those for Retaliation Snake Eyes. Little bit of paint here and there (the chest emblem largely just matches the existing sculpt), and I think it's good.
I might get a second head and sculpt on a mask. But for now, since I prefer unmasked for some guys, he'll just use the removable goggles (unless the majority view is that they look goofy).
For Black Widow, I've had a custom I've loved and used as my default for awhile now. But the head was the one thing I was still on the lookout for. Well, thanks to sgartz, I made a sweet trade for an Avengers BW. It's a great head sculpt. Nice figure overall, but not quite where I wanted BW to be, design wise (in part because she has the older styled movie hips). So I took the best of the movie fig and bashed it on to my existing custom. I used her head, arms (some of the best female armsmade in scale) and lower legs. Then I painted her up, flesh tones to match, eye detail, etc... She's kind of a mash-up between MU and movie styles. Thoughts?
