Princess Allura
Parts Used |
Entire figure - Microman Catwoman |
Main Paints |
Sprayed white, mixed pink, elf flesh, sunburst yellow, mithril silver |
Accessories |
Rifle from Microlady Commanderlady Diane |
Playability |
Low, about 2/10 due to paint chipping |
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This one was at once alot more complicated, and alot less than it looks. The first step was selecting the body (easy). I chose the catwoman frame because unlike a material force body, she is clothed - mostly evident on the chest and the different waist piece. Also, since I already had a CW figure, if I made a mistake on the head I'd have a spare (CW comes with two heads - one with goggles, one without). The first step was to disassemble the body into all the component pieces (about forty) then spray the majority of them white. I did multiple thin coats, and it turned out very well, nice and smooth and bright. They were left to dry while I modded the head. Firstly I cut back the hood at the forehead (fortunately the line of the hood matches the line of her headband, so the 'scars' are hidden nicely), before sculpting on the ears and the hair on her head (the ponytail comes later). Once the white parts had dried, I mixed up a nice shade of pink, then spent many hours gettign lines as close to perfect as I could, without getting any on the white where it wasn't supposed to go. This was qute hard and time consuming, but preferable to splotches of unmatching white touchups. The hair was finished by making the braid, headband and the ponytail and attaching them to the head, which was placed on the body to dry. |
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Once cured, the neckpiece detail was painted, and the head painted on a seperate Microman body, to avoid the chance of ruining the white. The rifle, though not exactly 'princessey' was chosen because a) it looks cool and b) the old Voltron lions had all those nifty chrome accessories. poseablity is very limited because of the assive amounst of paint involved (ie - the whole figure), but she was originally made with this in mind and she looks great on the shelf, so I'm not dissapointed by that.
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