Head: Star Wars Ep I Padme Naberrie
Hair: 25th Scarlett
Torso: 25th Lady Jaye
Arms and Jacket: Indiana Jones KOTCS
Hands: Star Wars Juno Eclipse
Thighs and Belt: 25th General Hawk
Lower Legs: 25th Steeler or Clutch

This was the most annoying custom I have ever worked on.

Chopping up the Scarlett hair and Padme head was easy enough. Piecing all the parts together was fun. The figure looked great before I even started painting it- This was going to be easy!

Wrong... I mixed up a bunch of white, brown, and tan to get the overall color of the figure, Started painting. The colors were too light and had to be put on in multiple coats. Even after putting 3 or 4 coats on I could still see green showing through. The details of the mold were holding up but I was getting worried about adding more paint, so I gave up on it and it sat on a shelf in peices for the last two months.

I was dreading having to put on another layer of paint and then seal it. I had already had to rip the Indy coat off because paint on her lower waist was sticking to it. I was not looking foward to re- gluing the jacket to her chest and waist yet again. It looked more form fitting that way but was difficult to do and since I had already painted the collar, the paint kept coming off and getting all over my hands and the rest of the figure no matter how careful I was.

Fingerprints, runny paint, dog and cat hair sticking to the figure... Everything that could possibly go wrong, went wrong.

I finally re-mixed the colors again, repainted the legs and torso. Went over them with dullcote and glosscote. Cleaned up the arms and jacket, repainted the collar, repainted the hair. Boiled some water to soften up the Hawk belt so I could stretch it and slip it on her without scraping paint off. Put everything together, sprayed it with dullcote. Waited till the next day, sprayed it with dullcote again, waited an hour and then stood farther back and sprayed a little bit of glosscote. Rushed the thing back inside the house and it fell off of the stand I was holding and landed, still wet, on the carpet.

I picked all of the cat and dog hair off with some tweezers, refinished it with dull and gloss once again and took a bunch of pictures before something else went wrong.

I think I'm happy with her. She looks good. But I'm already thinking of how I would do it differently, so I may redo her at some point.

I figure using the tan Steeler lower legs from the M.O.B.A.T. / H.I.S.S. pack, and taking the time to find the right shade of tan spray paint, will give me better results, and a much better experience making the freakin' thing.