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As sure as death and taxes , kitbashing and customizing action figures results in a lot of leftover bits and pieces . My Jungle Woman was an action figure that was going to happen regardless , it just so happened that her rise came about via the various parts leftover from my previous custom jobs . I had been picking up fur pattern fabrics over the past several months , since there are a lot of Jungle Girl action figures that I want to create; Rulah , Cave Woman , Princess Pantha , Tiger Girl , Rima and of course the Queen of them all . . . Sheena! Each time I picked up some accoutrement for one Cool Girl kitbash , I'd add an additional bit for one of my planned Jungle Girls . Sheena got to be the first by sheer virtue of most resembling the head of Blaze that I had leftover from my Barbra Dark bash . This figure is a hybrid Cool Girl , since the head , hip and legs are from BBI , the feet and some of the hands are from Skynet , and the torso and Arms are Yamato's Kelly . Why create a hybrid in lieu of using a stock CG body ? Mainly to capture the look of a Golden Age Jungle Girl ( a time before women had that " Hard Body " look that is so popular now . I cracked apart the upper torso of the Sky body and cut off the midsection just above the navel . A dremel was used to hollow out the abdomen to allow the ball of Yamato's Kelly torso to fit at the waist . This was then re-strung with a spring that was pulled up thru the torso to attach to the Blaze head . I cut off some of the Yamato and Skynet hands and dremeled a hole in the wrist area to allow use of the BBI CG wrist joints and stuffed craft foam into the forearm hole for a tight fit for the thinner CG wrist posts . The BBI CG leg extentions were removed and the hole at the bottom of the leg dremeled out to allow attachment of the Skynet bare feet posts . The leopard skin costume was hand sewn , and the suede undergarment was resewn from a Barbie skirt ( I didn't want her P-O-R-N showing when she was jumping or swinging on vines ! ) The arm and wrist bands ( and the ankle band ) are made from sheet brass , the belt and costume lacing is leather string . The knife is from a BBI German soldier figure . Sheena's spear is made from a stick I broke off a tree and the blade is carved from basswood , drilled out to slip over the shaft of the staff . Click Here For A Large Shot of " Jungle Woman"        King Kong fanatic that I am , as soon as I learned that Mezco Toys was producing a Kong action figure , based on the Peter Jackson film version ; I put in a pre-order for the " rampage " version . I had been trying to locate a suitable gorilla sidekick for my Jungle Girls , but there are really not many Gorilla action figures out in the toy market that are able to stand up next to the quality of a Cool Girl . . . until this new Mezco toy . Sure , he's still out of scale , but when it comes to apes ; bigger is always better . My guess is that ol' Gargantua here is probably a surviving member of Gigantopithecus , previously thought to be extinct .  Mezco's Kong only has nine points of articulation , but this is enough to provide at least some good " key " poses . Since all are ball and socket joints , they provide much better articulation than other limited joint figures . The sculpt is exceptional , which again really helps offset the lack of a lot of articulation , the poses he takes always look really cool cuz he looks really cool .  This time around I decided to buck tradition when it came to the fighting knife for my Leopard Girl . Most jungle girls stay fairly practical when choosing a knife , nothing too fancy , just a basic pig-sticker . My imaginings were that the Leopard Girl found her knife in some " lost city " , and therefore it was much more of an archelogical relic moreso than just a utilitarian combat dagger . The blade is aluminum , with a full tang , the hilt is ivory ( okay , okay , it's wood ! ) with brass details .  I never was too thrilled with the stock paint job on the Best of Cool Girl Nikki headsculpt , but it took the inspiration of one of the members of Men With Dolls to get up my gumption to repaint her . Phantom11's Nikki repaint was awesome , far better than anything I could do , but it made such a remarkable change to the headsculpt it allowed me to see just what a fabulous sculpt it was . After my own modest attempt , I was again inspired by this figure and decided to finish her up . You can see the end results by clicking the link . 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