Thanks for the comments.
Brian - the dark paint job is just for shadowing. I was going to paint her closer to the boxtop.
I did yet more plastic surgery today, and her face
still needs more work! It's scrape, scrape, photograph... I guess I'm not being aggressive enough, especially around the Jay Leno-sized jaw. What's a little creepy for me is that the face on the boxtop artwork looks almost like a close friend of mine who died in 2002.
Moritz, I totally agree. Masterbox makes some great figures, but their molding can be sub par and some of their female faces - especially in 1/35 look like men. Look at this beauty:
The original Hanna figure was not just tall, her proportions were off. In the picture above, I trimmed some plastic off her waist and knees, trying to bring her down to 1/35 while keeping her proportions. I think the figure proportions look more like the boxtop after the surgery on the body. She's still pretty tall - just under 6'/1.83m in boots. Sadly, the kit's boots don't look like the boxtop.
I've thought of (and eventually plan to) making 3D printed 1/35 heads. They can be designed manually in a program like Blender, by basically sculpting the equivalent of digital clay, or they can be scanned - similar to the full body scans that both ReedOak and Live resin use for their figures.
Faces (and bodies) can also be designed programmatically with programs like
Daz3D and
MakeHuman. The Daz3D figure poses and clothing can be "distinctive" to the point of being stereotypes - like the figures in
this thread for Diesel kits