I picked up a small selection of his pieces through a local stockist (Armorcast, who still owe me an Alyx) and they're lovely. After some consideration, his Kendra was the ideal figure to represent the pistol-packing love of my life, my beautiful bride Josie. But there were some changes that Kendra needed to make.
She needed a new hair-do, and I discovered upon closer examination that she needed a far more determined chin if she was going to play my wife on the field of combat. So I pulled out my files, an Exacto knife, my small stash of ProCreate putty and a handful of sculpting tools I've either bought or made over the years, and I set to work...
| Here's Kendra as she arrived from the caster. Mr. White’s smooth surfaces and crisp details look far better in real life than this photo properly conveys. |  |
| In this profile shot, you can see her chin. It definitely needs a little something.... |  |
| I filed off the front of the hair-do (prepatory to removing the entire thing, eventually) and used a very tiny bit of putty to rework her chin. I love ProCreate because, after it’s cured, it can be shaved with a sharp blade. This made “correcting the corrections” to her new chin much easier. I started the hair, then hated it, so this photo represents a false start, coiffure-wise. |
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| Here’s Kendra, her transformation into Josie practically complete. I carefully studied how my darling bride’s hair waves when she’s not concerned with straightening it, and how it flips off her forehead when she tosses her head in annoyance. I thought that gesture suited the hand-cannon this figure’s toting… Anyone who crosses Josie on the playing field is in for a world of hurt. |
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Now all that remains is to paint the figure in Josie’s favorite black silk SWAT trousers and one of her carefully-selected crop-tops.
And, yes, she is that lovely.
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