[Boy Blunder]

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

Not a bad idea with the head swap trick, although truthfully, as much as Rogue...erm..I mean...Sharon...gets bagged on for her face, it's not actually that bad. I found that it's proper placement of the eyes and lipstick either makes or breaks the sculpt, and if you have a steady enough hand to touch up either one, (the lipstick on mine was all off, but I managed to fix it with a dab of acrylic) the original head can be salvaged for a unique look.

The hand trick was one I tried out when I first bought the Sharon, but I never mentioned here. It does work, but to anyone who tries it, be warned, the pegs on the WS Widow are very small and fit very loose, giving her wobbly, helicopter, wrists. You also lose a tiny bit of articulation (the wrist swivel.) I tried it for a bit, but I got tired of her hands spinning around in the sockets, so I ended up going back to Sharon's original set of paws...

I thought about trying this swap with the AoU 4 pack Widow, as the wrist pegs might be larger, but I didn't want to needlessly pull apart a unique figure from a 4 pack only to find there's no difference, nor did I feel like painting the fingers on those hands to give it the finger-less glove look the WS Widow had.

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Originally Posted by VonPooten

^^ You're very right TPsychic, the hands are quite loose, and they lack the wrist joint which is very unfortunate. I also wouldn't want to take apart a very nice 4-pack figure! I just had another BW hanging about, so I thought eh, why not? Sharon's hands are one of the worst things about the figure imo, with that malformed fist-thing and the extraordinarily bulbous trigger hand..

I think with the head, it worked very well for Medusa, who is technically alien, but with Sharon the point-ed chin (said in a Monty Python voice) and cheekbones that could cut steel just seemed very out of place. Ideally I'd've liked to have used a Ms. Marvel head, but this one suits her quite nicely (at least temporarily)!

Overall this figure could have been great. Misty Knight body in white plastic with the prototype head. Simple. Instead we got this scary vision.. I'm a big fan of the character, so she needed a LOT of modification (for a non-customiser, at least) for me to be happy with the figure. I even severed her feet and replaced them with Spider-Girl's to give her her flat black boots w/ ankle pivot.

Coat the pegs in some Pledge floor finish with Future shine (AKA Future Finish) to tighten up that looseness. A well-known tip passed around the Transformers collectors for a good long while when it comes to loose joints and pegs.