Intensity - The Toughest Girl On The Block

The is a project I have been wanting to try and tackle for a couple years now. my biggest problem is the fear of messing it up. I suck at customizing of any kind and may need a lot of help from my fellow board members here.

Intensity is a local comic book I created here in Phoenix, Arizona. I just sold out of my first issues at this year's Phoenix Comicon back in May. anyway moving on lol.

So far, I've decided that i want her to be as accurate as possible to my art while also being as poseable as possible. I've decided I'm going to use the upper body (head/arms/torso of Marvel 's Rachel Summers and then from the waist down I'm going to utilize the legs of WWE's Rey Mysterio.

what do you guys think? is this a decent direction?

Any help I can get would be super appreciated. I also need help taking a part both figures at the waist swivel without damaging and destroying them.

Photos can be found: HERE(I got no choice but to link off-site because for some reason the manage photos thing is not working right for me)

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Gi joe hazard viper has bigger pants. You might want to look in to that.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7013/6...3670d919_z.jpg
The torso is a good fit.
Good luck and have fun with it.

yeah but the Hazard Viper is quite smaller than the Rachel Summers figure as she is 6 inches.

The Rey pants are a bold choice, and I think, a good one. Just make sure you're happy with the proportions of how the parts will come together. Those Wrestling guys tend to be tall, leggy especially, I've not had a lot of good luck mixing them with normal 6" figures generally, let alone faking out a gender-swap.

But it all comes down to the particular figures (neither of which I have) and where/how you join the parts. I think you're on the right track.

I think the leg swap is brilliant, actually. Kind of thinking outside the box.

I'm not sure what to suggest though... I've run into this problem before too, since action figures are usually glued tight (or something), as opposed to being held together with convenient screws like Transformers. I'm don't know the best way to get those bodies apart.

Maybe if you put both figures in some boiling (or recently boiled) water and left them in just enough for the plastic to swell just enough to loosen the glue. I doubt they would warp appreciably in that time, and it might do the trick.

zmog

This is what I got so far...





I plan on sanding down the waist of the pants to better match where her upper body will meet it.

Looks like your in the right direction, her hips are maybe a bit wide, but as long as you get the waist down, and grind down the crotch as well you should be in good shape

You may also want to try using a bit of (insert sculpting material of your choice here) to widen her hips above the waistjoint; if you can do it smoothly enough, it'll also match up to the art-style you're working with, a bit.

May also want to widen the hole in her torso to allow the two parts to sit flush with each other.

Originally Posted by Shockwave9227 Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice. Pull down your pants, and slide on the ice.

I concur with the above. The size difference between the two figures was quite a bit more than I expected, but it seems like the hips are mostly all one chunk of plastic, so you should be able to cut/grind/sand it down to match the waist more or less.

Another option might even be to cut down the "skirt" hip section from the Marvel Girl figure and use it as intermediate section between the two. It'll give her a longer torso, but I think she could do with a little more length there, to balance the proportions of the wrestler legs. Also, it already has a belt. You might want to do some eyeball measurements to see if that's even an option, but I think it might work.

zmog

I'm doing it all with very minimal tools. I don't even own a dremel or any other kind of saw or anything.

And I am a super noob when it comes to sculpting anything.

I may have to save some cash up before i can progress any further.