Craft Project

So, here is the craft project that I did for Valentine's Day:

I started with an Athena figurine that I purchased at Target for $5.



The goal of the project was to recreate Laura's first WoW character, a night elf hunter. This figure was really perfect, because her Hunter's pet was an owl, which took a lot of the trouble out of the project. This is her hunter:

So, since she was not level 70 I thought it didn't make sense to try to replicate her armor [not to mention that being very difficult], so instead I just tried to capture the essence of her hunter. This is what I came up with:



To replicate her hunter's hair I had to remove a lot of the hair from the original model, take off the crest from it's helm, and make some hair from epoxy to attach to the top of her head where the smooth helm was originally. I made the ears from scraps of plastic and the eyebrows from tiny wood shavings from her bow.
The quiver is a rolled piece of thick, almost construction paper, glued together with little wood scraps for arrows. The fletching on the arrows is made from bits of tissue.
When I was removing the shield I accidentally broke the arm. When I fixed it I ended up with a bit of a mess, and was without anything to clean it up. So, her upper left arm is a little lumpy.
The bird was already pretty perfect. I just repainted it to look more like her pet owl. Black and gray with yellow eyes and a blue beak.

After all that was finished, I finished the base with some pebbles and heavy drybrushing. Then enclosed the whole thing in a plastic glass that I bought at target and turned out to be a perfect size and shape to guard the figurine.

So, that's that. Happy Valentine's Day, Laura!