Ra’s al Ghul was made from Diamond Select Toys’ Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Dr. Julian Bashir. First I resculpted his hair. Ra’s’s hair got more extreme in season four, but it was never quite the quiff he’s known for. It was important to give him his iconic beardlets, which some mistake for a Fu Manchu moustache. The hair atop on his noggin now comes to two corresponding points so he looks like a satyr.
His Starfleet badge was sanded off & the ribbed panels filled in. I made his shoulders a bit pointier as well. His tunic was made by cutting off part of a discarded shirtsleeve. The edging of his tunic is made from vintage French Historex tape.
His cape was cut from that shirt cuff too. The braiding was snipped off an old dishrag. Its brooches were parts from a Mercedes model. The cape on Gotham had a simple collar, but is it really The Demon’s Head if he doesn’t have a Dracula collar?
The sword blade is a piece of brass. The hilt is two pieces of a military automobile model kit. The handle was hewn from a bamboo chopstick with a sculpted pommel.
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