Catwoman - A Real Shelf Queen :)

[longlance67]

STUNNING ! simply Stunning !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

great work, hats off to you sir ;D

 

[Grendels]

Very nice!

 

[Joseph Osborn]

I am trying to catch up on my orders so I haven't been able to do much this week, but I am inching closer to the finish line.

I put a semi-gloss clear coat on the boots. Here's one of those "a picture tells a thousand words" FSM-type photos just for fun:

I buffed the boots just a little with a cotton cloth to give them a little sheen:

I attached the claws to the hands with superglue. These are the resin copies I made of the kit's original vinyl claws, and they are much easier to work with:

The claws and fingertip-thimbles will be painted a dark gunmetal-type color and given a black wash. I really wish I had left the forearms off the figure until the end because it's a little awkward to work on the fingers now. I don't have anything to brace my hands against and I'm not exactly surgeon-precise.

Thanks for hanging with me through this build!

 

[TRM]

Again Joesph, some great progress!! A real joy to follow along. Just a helpful hint if you have not gotten there yet....Mahl Stick! Little stick with a padded, rounded end....holds you painting hand to steady and allow you to get into any position. Google it up...make one in about 5 minutes!!

Keep it coming sir, she is a beauty!!!

 

[Quaralane]

Nice touches with the claws. I'd be proud to have her in my collection

 

[Joseph Osborn]

Again Joesph, some great progress!! A real joy to follow along. Just a helpful hint if you have not gotten there yet....Mahl Stick! Little stick with a padded, rounded end....holds you painting hand to steady and allow you to get into any position. Google it up...make one in about 5 minutes!!

Keep it coming sir, she is a beauty!!!

Hey, thanks for the tip! I sort of mocked up a stick just to see if it would work and it does!

 

[TRM]

;D...

 

[Joseph Osborn]

I'm going to declare the work on the figure done as of right now. Still have to finish a base, though.

 

[TRM]

Yeah, it still looks incredible!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

[amateurmodeler]

man that is amazing, the face is awesome

 

[blakeh1]

Excellent. Very natural looking skin, and the eys turned out awesome. Great job all around!

 

[Grendels]

This is very well done. Congrats!

 

[Joseph Osborn]

Thank you all. I'm open to suggestions on the type of base to use under this figure. I had originally intended to do a minimalist type of wooden base, basically just either painting it glossy black or staining it a dark color with a high-gloss finish. Maybe I need to stretch a bit and do something more natural-looking? Maybe a section of urban rooftop?

 

[JohnSimmons]

Sooooooo nice

 

[Dark Kyp]

really nice! ;D

 

[Jaitea]

She looks HOT!!

Beautiful work

J

 

[blakeh1]

Thank you all. I'm open to suggestions on the type of base to use under this figure. I had originally intended to do a minimalist type of wooden base, basically just either painting it glossy black or staining it a dark color with a high-gloss finish. Maybe I need to stretch a bit and do something more natural-looking? Maybe a section of urban rooftop?

I think a glossy black base would dertact from it. It would be too similar to the glossy black suit of rest of the model. I think a flat base, preferably a lighter color than black maybe. a concrete or stone colored base might look good. A rooftop base would also look nice. Something with a bit of color other than just black

 

[Quaralane]

Blakeh1's on the right track with the base.
I'd say go with something neutral like a grey/marble finish to the base

Selina is positively gorgeous

 

[JMac]

Ok so how did you get Michelle Pfeiffer to pose for those pictures. ;D just kidding...

Really fantastic work.

 

[Joseph Osborn]

Me again! Since this Catwoman figure is going to be a Christmas present for a friend, I decided that I'd better finish it before Christmas

I needed to make a nice base for it, but balsa foam is way out of my budget right now, so I cobbled up a brickwork ledge from some basswood and foam:

Here are the basic parts, an oval basswood base and 1/4" basswood laminated and glued together to form a solid core:

Then I scribed a brickwork pattern into some 1/8" thick Midwest Products "Cellfoam 88" (all this stuff is from Hobby Lobby) and sealed it with three coats of diluted white glue:

I used the foam to skin the wooden form, and added more foam to the top to make a ledge. The ledge is sealed with diluted carpenter's glue (just a little tougher than white glue), and there are two brass tubes inserted into the wood to hold the figure:

The oval base was stained and is now getting several coats of polyurethane gloss. I painted with ledge with Liquitex acrylics:

Once the base is finished, I'll screw the ledge and base together and be done!