I made Helix after a few sessions of anime, a mix of looking at the "Heavy Metal" magazines while in the grocery line and receiving my new ZMDC figures and spending a few hours a night playing Final Fantasy. After I put together my first ZMDC and Moon Girl figures, I went insane for Sci-Fi figures. Helix was the result of a combination of all the above.
She also marked my first "real hair" female figure. The head is a resin recast of the Cy Girl "Blaze" head made by Scarbrs. I repainted the head with acrylics, sealed it with matte and clearcoats and then superglued rabbit fur for the hair. I've tried to master hair gluing on several occasions and I've never had a problem with longer hair, but the shorter the hair you're trying to do, the harder it is.
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According to me (cause I made her up), Helix is a bounty hunter in the distant future. After World War IV, the world is in chaos and there is no real "law." For a female bounty hunter, Helix had to wield some extra firepower to do the dirty deed. The "big gun" is from the Lanard figures. I repainted the entire gun, weathered it and sealed it with a gloss coat for the sheen. Her huge sword is from the Dragon Onimusha figure. I had some trouble planning out her outfit at first but after I decided on using the sword, it was simple because I made her outfit around the color scheme of the sword.
The entire outfit, bootcovers, scarf, pouch, and weapons belt were all handsewn with pleather. Her knee and shoulder pads were taken from Spawn figures and repainted.
For her "small" gun, I initially planned to sculpt her a futuristic type hand gun. I was looking around my parts bin to see if there was anything I could use. Lo-and-behold, I had an extra sawed off shotgun and it worked well with Helix. I had pictured Helix's time to be something like the "Mad Max" films so the shotgun worked.
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