This toy's going right into my pants.
I started putting together a Dr. Biggles-Jones nearly 5 years ago. I got a spare Lady Jaye and a spare Scarlett, and I was gonna frankenstein ‘em together, hoping I’d find a good labcoat to add to her later. But that labcoat wouldn’t come until the GIJOE movie line gave us a white-coated Cobra “Rex” Commander, and Lady Jaye’s hands had gloves on them, so I ended up buying a movie Cover Girl to use for arms instead.
And then the thing just sat in pieces in a tub somewhere since then.
But I’ve been doing a lot of toy-painting recently and I’d picked up Volume 14 of IDW’s remastered collections of the original Marvel run, and I was reminded of my forgotten project and how easy it would be to finish it.
So I did!
I spent way too much time trying to x-acto knife open Cover Girl’s torso to get her arms out of there. Half an hour of sawing. Eventually I gave up, grabbed some damn pliers, and with some very manly force, I crushed the torso, sending both arms flying behind the couch. Those were retrieved and their sleeves were painted white. I got some super-glue, put the body back together, and did some paint touch-ups. I also took the knife to the labcoat, trimming the shoulders and opening up the front of the coat a bit so you could actually see her.
Yeah, uh, this photo's from the last time I did anything with my kitbash in... 2009. Yikes.
Hurrah!
If I may get a little Fazzy with you, Dr. Biggles-Jones is the hottest lady. I think in 1993 she was my ideal woman. Incredibly smart, good with giant guns nearly her size, interested in by Transformers, and she wears a leotard and knee-high boots under a damn labcoat. If only she wore glasses. She’s still pretty ideal. Not as ideal as, say, that wife I married, but pretty close! Hey, Maggie, if you’re reading this, it’s my birthday this week, just sayin’. Y’know, if you find a spare leotard and labcoat…
wow…. good job!
So… how the heck did you get the scarlett body apart? I’ve been too afraid to try disasembling the female torsos for fear of breaking them, and the only techniques I can get working for me can often end in torso destruction. >__<
BTW… she WAS hot back then, wasn't she? I liked wildmans rendition better.
Argh, no. Wildman’s art of her is kind of gross. I don’t like his females very much. I prefer Chris Batista’s Biggles-Jones with Baskerville’s inking (which is what’s at the bottom of the post). Of course, Baskerville’s inking on Batista’s pencils lasted only one half of one issue. The rest of her appearances are not as pleasing to me. But those two halves of that one issue are all I had as a kid, so that’s what I latched on to. It was disappointing when I gathered the other Transformers crossover issues later and found that when they weren’t using Wildman or Batista, they were kind of slumming it for artists. A lot of that art was Bad.
As for getting Scarlett apart, I don’t recall. It was 2007 or so. Probably an x-actoknife.
hrmph… all my attempt at Xacto dissection ends with mangling.
I don’t know much about inking, but Baserville seemed to have been awesome at it. The first US issue where Wildman is inked by someone else shows how crucial he was to the art. I’m surprised he didn’t get more US work.
I got GI Joe Classic v14 the other day as well and re-read the issues leading up to it. Wildman’s art really does dive off a cliff by the start of v14. I would put that down to Baskerville though oddly, given how he inked Batista. Seems to have either rushed or gone for a more conscious Image house style look. Wildman and Baskerville on TFUS and slightly earlier GI Joe stuff was much better.
And I must admit, when I got to Dr Biggle-Jones’s first appearance I immediately remembered about the last time you posted about her (I think when Devil’s Due had her killed off off-panel as though she was a proper member of Cobra).
I use a variation of this: http://www.cobraisland.com/showthread.php?3263-25th-Joe-Disassembly…alternate-method
Yes, but does it move?
Epicness. And not jsut because Dr Sydney Biggles-Jones is an awesome name to say.
Ah yes, she was a cutie back in the day, wasn’t she…
Cue the fangirls showing up at Willis’ next conventiom appearance wearing labcoats with leotards under them.