SITH WITCH

Parts:

6" Spawn "Domina" figure

Large red swizzle stick

Aluminum foil

Sculpey
 
 



























































































 

 


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Before Episode One, Lucasfilm conceptual artist Iain McCaig was asked to come up with ideas of what a Sith Lord should look like. Before the final decision was made for Darth Maul, McCaig envisioned a female Sith "Witch". This custom is a compilation of three of his preliminary drawings for this character. 

I recently found a McFarlane Spawn 6" figure for only $2 CDN...and even though this is larger than the 3 3/4" scale figures, I had previously done one at this scale for my Guri custom, and thought it would be a great start for a Sith Witch. This is a wonderful scale to work with, and the McFarlane toys are so well done that they make great "action" figures with lots of articulation. The sculpting and detail on these toys is incredible. (See the picture below to see what it looked like before I customized her).

First, I had to remove all Domina's accessories, hair, and headpiece. I carved down part of her top, leg bands, and boots. It was especially difficult to carve down her right boot, which was huge! I carved and sanded until it matched her left boot, which was also smoothed out.

Next I added sculpey to her head, left arm (to extend her glove up her arm), top (to make it longer), skirt, belt, cape, and headdress. The cape was cured seperately from the rest of the figure so I could paint the entire thing and THEN put it on, gluing in place.

After repainting, I dulled it down with Testor's Dullcoat, using a paintbrush to paint it on, leaving her boots shiny.

A large swizzlestick was cut to length and wrapped with aluminum foil for the hilt.

This figure was a lot of fun to do, especially when deciding on how I wanted the final character to look like. Since the base figure had the great torso area, I used reference picture number 2 for the torso and arms. I did her face and head wrap like reference picture number 1 (from the comics), and her skirt and legs are modelled after reference picture number 3.
 

 

REFERENCE PICTURES:


Spawn "Domina" toy used as base figure.

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