This Lois
figure was quite possibly one of the most difficult and most rewarding
figures I've made. While looking through spare parts one day, I
happened across the Robot Wars Jubilee head (who's hair had been used for Wonder
Girl), and I noticed that it had a strong resemblance to Lois
Lane. If I was seriously going to consider making a Lois figure, I'd
have to find the right body. Luckily, right there in my parts box
sat a headless Ilia. She lacked much
detail in the legs, which would make her a great animated base figure, and
she was already wearing a skirt-like thing which I thought could easily be
modified.
Was I wrong or what. What I had to do to be happy with this figure was basically dremel down quite a bit off of Ilia's dress, and then I rebuilt her outfit using Super Sculpey.
Then I had to decide what to do with the legs. As Ilia, she stood crooked and I wanted to fix that, so I cut her legs off at the bottom of her skirt. I also wanted to shorten her a bit, so I took a few millimeters off the top of the legs before gluing them back. I found that that crooked pose was about the only one those legs could stand in without further modification (something I wasn't prepared to do), but at least I was able to get her to stand up better than the original Ilia figure did.
I made her hair using Super Sculpey. Chip helped quite a bit in getting the hairline right. We had to watch a few Superman cartoons in slow motion while sculpting in order to be happy with the final results.
Parts Used:
| Base figure: | Star Trek Ilia body |
| Head: | Robot Wars Jubilee |
| Hair & Skirt: | Super Sculpey |
See Also: Superman Family