Converting a Crooked Dice P.King into Leopard Girl

[Roy]

Latest WIP for Forgotten Heroes blog event. Leopard Girl's leopard suit.


Started with this...












All the details and talk can be found here:
http://nevermindthejankers.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/forgotten-heroes-leopard-girl-1.html

Cheers,
Roy

[Terry37]

Now that is talent, and an amazing piece of work. Brings to mind the "Jaguar Warriors " of the Meso-American Indians

Not sure what color scheme you have planned, but the Indians wore Jaguar suits in a variety of colors from a natural look to blue, white, yellow and red.

I will be watching this with much interest to see how it progresses!

Terry

[Techno]

 

Good work, Roy.

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice one!

[DFlynSqrl]

That's well done!

[Steve J]

Pretty damned cool

[paulr]

 

[FierceKitty]

Brings to mind the "Jaguar Warriors " of the Meso-American Indians

Not sure what color scheme you have planned, but the Indians wore Jaguar suits in a variety of colors from a natural look to blue, white, yellow and red.

Terry

And right fun that army is too.

[Roy]

Thanks everyone - Luck played as big a part as my growing knowledge and experience.

Not sure what color scheme you have planned, but the Indians wore Jaguar suits in a variety of colors from a natural look to blue, white, yellow and red.

I'm making it as part of a blog event thingy, where you pick a superhero or villain from a comic/film/advert/anything really and make a figure for it.

https://forgottenheroessite.wordpress.com/

I chose the 1953 Marvel Comics character Leopard Girl.

Yep, painting it is going to be fun 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Those early Marvel outfits... 
Only because Stan Lee & Jack Kirby hated drawing ears!

[Roy]

I think the photo's tell the story, really. I filled in the gaps between boots and legs. Removed the belt and filled and smoothed. Some Green Stuff was used to bring the collar of the suit up under the chin. PVA white glue was used to fix talus grit to the base. When that had completely dried I applied more PVA white glue atop the dried grit, and now it has dried rock hard. Primer/undercoat is some Vallejo Flat Brown.





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I've also began work on the Crossover Miniatures model that I'm going to base my work on for Retro Girl [from Powers tv show] - another entry in the Forgotten Heroes blog event

http://nevermindthejankers.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/forgotten-heroes-leopard-girl-2.html

[Roy]

Well, the converted miniature is painted. Obviously I went for the 'Less is More' approach, and can always claim that the suit isn't actually a real leopard's coat and so doesn't need to be accurate!

Back in 1953...

The origins of the woman known as Leopard Girl are a mystery. She was a secretary to a various scientists and explorers who lived in the jungles of Africa in the 1950s, under civilian named of Gwen, although her last name is unrevealed. She frequently worked with a young wealthy man named Peter who had an infatuation with the Leopard Girl. What prompted Gwen to become the Leopard Girl is unknown, however she soon became a legendary jungle adventurer fighting criminals who sought to exploit the jungle. She was frequently aided in her adventures by a pack of wild leopards who followed her every command.

In her first recorded appearance, Gwen was working for Peter directly. At the time he was to be married to Sandra Dennings whom was really working a con with her father in order to trick Peter into purchasing Mr. Dennings failing business and then running off with the money. Learning of this ploy, the Leopard Girl stranded Sandra and her father in the middle of the jungle at the mercy of seemingly deadly snakes, forcing them to confess their scam to Peter before revealing that the snakes were harmless and delivering them to the authorities.

Later, Gwen's secretarial services were hired by Professor Kreitzer, a scientist who came to the jungles to continue his researched undisturbed. One of his first experiments was using radioactive chemicals to summon the spirit of the so-called Flame Witch. Surprisingly, the experiment was a success but Kreitzer was knocked out and the Flame Witch then cut a swath of destruction across the jungle seeking out the man who restored her to life. Gwen changed into Leopard Girl and came to Kreitzer's aid, stashing his unconscious body into the cave of the female lion known as Numa. Leopard Girl and Numa then tricked the Flame Witch into following them into the cave, where an uncovered water source doused the Flame Witch apparently destroying her.

The jungle was later terrorised anew by a tribal man named Robo who attempted to summon spirits to get revenge on Leopard Girl for arresting him for murder in the past. However the spirits turned against Robo and apprehended him. In her civilian identity she rescued Pete and Professor Kreitzer who had foolishly charged off on their own to stop Robo and became mutually trapped.

Leopard Girl stopped a leopard known as the Wild One who had been driven mad by a thorn caught in his paw. After stopping Pete from trying to kill the big cat, she removed the thorn, restoring the leopards sanity.

Leopard Girl had her place as ruler of the leopard pack usurped by a leopard named Fang who then sent the other leopards out on the attack. Leopard Girl prevented Pete from killing the leopards, and defeated Fang in battle, learning that Fang had no teeth and only sought to be part of the pack. Leopard Girl promised Fang that she would keep his secret and took control of the leopards once again.

Leopard Girl later appeared as a resident of Valhalla Villas, a retirement home for ex-heroes and ex-villains that is located in Miami. When Scott Lang was there meeting with Mary Morgan, Leopard Girl was interested in meeting Scott's father only to be told that he is dead. Leopard Girl is among the residents that are temporarily de-aged by Mary Morgan, who used an unnamed Asgardian relic during the Incursion between Earth-616 and Earth-1610.

[Ithoriel]

Looks brilliant! Well done!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Beautiful work

[Terry37]

Ah, very nicely done. and a GREAT conversion. Carving teh leopard head is awesome!

No intent to divert your thread, but to share a figure in leopard skin I did on an Aztec Leopard Warrior, here are a few pics. He was quite fun to do. A a 28 MM figure, but I have no idea the maker.







I did him as a test figure before painting my 15 MM Meso-American army.

Terry