Hi again! I'm back with another daily dose of Metroid custom figure fun! First item on the block . . . Samus Aran! Yes, I know, I did a Samus yesterday, but I'm trying to do one good guy and one bad guy per day here, and there are actually way fewer heroes in the game than major enemies, so you'll have some repeats. Probably frequently.

Of course, this is Samus without her armor. However, to maintain some consistency, I made Zero Suit Samus here using the same figure I used to make my standard armored Samus Aran. The two figures are identical. If one were to peel the armor sculpt off of my first Samus, glue it to this one, and repaint her, she'd be exactly the same.

The only thing that's different is the hair. My original Samus had a swappable head with long hair. For this figure, I removed Psylocke's standard 'do and used Loctite Epoxy Putty (I recently switched brands) to sculpt a modern hairstyle in keeping with Samus' more recent appearances. I even considered making the new head swappable with the old one, but I was so pleased with the result, I didn't want to risk damaging it. Those little hair prongs are kinda fragile!

Beyond that, this figure was a cake walk. You're essentially painting a nude figure, obviously. I'm proud of the line work, particularly on the emblem on her chest (no, I didn't close-up just to show you boobies, it's a detail shot!), and I'm really happy with the Psylocke design in general . . . ToyBiz made a great figure there. As you can see, I can consistently get her to stand, and stay balanced all on her own, in a variety of traditionally wobbly action poses.

See you next mission!