We’ve whipped up something special for the upcoming holiday season - a nice Marvel Legends style Squirrel Girl custom! If you’re not familiar with SG and her cohorts in the Great Lakes Avengers (X-men/Champions/Initiative) then you’re missing out on Marvel comics most entertaining superhero team. No, seriously. This figure was actually created as an entry for The Comic Crypt’s super-awesome custom contest. Head over to that site to find out more about the contest and see other entires. As for Squirrel Girl, expand the post to see more pics and get more info.

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SQUIRREL GIRL

SG is made from a Marvel Legends series 15 Wasp body with ML series 14 Psylocke’s feet. All her fur and hair was sculpted with Apoxy Sculpt, and her belt pouches came from an X-men Classics Beast figure.

The tail came from a chipmunk dog’s chew toy. I shortened it, stuffed it with batting to ‘fluff’ it up a bit, and inserted a bundle of wires (those obnoxious twist ties that hold your action figures in their packages!) so that I could pose the tail and have it hold shap. It’s affixed to SG’s body by a screw that is driven into her pelvis piece just under the belt line.

No Squirrel Girl figure would be complete without the proper accessories - those being her trusty squirrel sidekicks… I mean ‘partners’! SG’s first partner was Monkey Joe, a little brown fellow who met with an unfortunate demise. Filling Monkey Joe’s shoes was Tippy Toe - a female grey squirrel who sports a pretty pink ribbon and has a penchant for high-flying aerial attacks! Both MJ and TT came out of a tube of little plastic forest creatures branded by Animal Planet. I sculpted Tippy Toe’s little blue flight cap, just cuz I felt like it.

There was one last little addition that I felt SG needed to feel ‘complete’. In the Great Lakes Avengers special X-mas issue, Flat-Man (a fellow member of the team) gave SG a scarf patterned after himself as a Christmas present. I thought was pretty cute and clever, so I just had to take a shot at making one for her. It turned out… eh… alright, I guress.

Well, that’s about it. Here are a few comic art reference pictures I went by.

Oh, and finally, here are a couple work-in-progress pics to give you an idea of what I did to the base figure.

Tags: customs, marvel legends, squirrel girl

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