Character & Intent

Grin is one of my own Amalgam designs
and therefore pretty much covered here.
Just let me say that much: It's an Amalgam
of Carnage & Harley Quinn which I perso-
nally find much more fitting than pairing
Carnage with Bizzaro of all people... 

Grin was my first full custom and still
remains one of my best. Could infact
still be the best figure I ever made, so
I'm naturally pretty satisfied with it.

Creation

The first act of creation in this case
was - as often - an act of destruction:
Sanding of the coiny belt and some of
the contures that seperated Catwoman's
mask from her face.

Then I went to sculpting the jester-cap-like
structures on her head. Note that I didn't re-
move the "ears" of the original figure as they
helped keeping the clay in place.
The belly of figure had slightly been damaged
when I removed the belt and the mold was a
little too slim/unmuskular, anyway which promp-
ted me to do some re-sculpting of this area, too.

Then the coloring... Oh, the coloring. I didn't
have any experience back then, so I started off
with poster paint. That stuff prove to be way
to thick and swallowed some of the details be-
fore building bumps and peeling off. All in all
a failure that forced me to scratch most the
color off again. The next try with Revell
was much more efficient and, along with
some more sculpting on one foot to ensure
a save stand, prepared the figure for it's
final layer of clear laque.

Symbiotic Tentacles Accessory

Startet	:	~Unrecorded~
Finished	:	~Unrecorded~
Base	:	Poison Ivy (Movie Line) Jungle Attack Accessory
Parts	:	~none~
Materials	:	Hot glue, Revell colors, black ink, clear laque

This one was a typical
case of spare parts usage.

The Poison Ivy figure that I used for
my Mira Nova figure came with a plant-like
accessory to attach to her forarm. Obviously,
it was useless for Mira, but it happened to be
just perfect for Grin.

All I needed to do here was to add a few more
structures with hot glue which also served as
a cover-up for some of the leaves of this mold.
A layer of red color, some painting with black
and a layer of clear laque (mainly because the
Revell colors would have stayed sticky for ages
on this material) would have been all it took....
If it wasn't for the attachment part.

You see, the part that is used to stick this weapon
onto the figure's forearm is more soft & flexible than
the rest. The problem with this is that all the bending
makes the color peel off. After some experimentation
I finally found a color that would stay on the thing
without smearing or peeling:
Simple writing ink.