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Amity Blight
After watching the first season of The Owl House, I knew I had to build someone from the series, and I decided almost right away on Little Miss Perfect herself, Amity Blight. She's no longer my favorite character of the show (Luz has captured my heart), but she definitely was after my initial viewing, and she's still up there. A mean but redeemable character who is also the walking embodiment of the more innocent, not-an-infringement-on-human-rights meaning of the words "gay panic"? I couldn't resist.
This build was challenging, to say the least. I didn't have the right colors to build her school uniform, so I had to go with her Grom dress instead (what a shame, I know :P ). I wound up redesigning the interior structure of the skirt twice, and the head also went through several iterations. The gem on her chest is the back end of a cherry element, the rest of which I hid with panels, hinge trickery, and vertically cut flex tubing. Then there were the eyes, which, in the interest of keeping everything 100% Lego, are not decals but rather tiny cutouts of existing Lego stickers which I've been stockpiling for this very reason. Getting the eyes right took 2+ hours, as much time as the rest of the head. I also had to cheat with tan stickers under the ears to cover a half plate gap.
For the edit, I tried to recreate the background from the Enchanted Grom dance scene as best I could, in many cases by literally copy and pasting elements over and then bloating them to adjust for perspective. I think it at least kind of worked out, but I'll probably stick to simpler backgrounds in the future because this one took many hours to complete.
I'm currently away from my collection, but I'm already planning to build at least one more character from the Owl House come December. I also have plans for Avatar, She-ra, and Steven Universe builds... can you tell how I've been spending quarantine yet? In any case, if anyone is looking for a good way to pass six hours, I can't recommend The Owl House highly enough. Go watch it's good.
Amity Blight
After watching the first season of The Owl House, I knew I had to build someone from the series, and I decided almost right away on Little Miss Perfect herself, Amity Blight. She's no longer my favorite character of the show (Luz has captured my heart), but she definitely was after my initial viewing, and she's still up there. A mean but redeemable character who is also the walking embodiment of the more innocent, not-an-infringement-on-human-rights meaning of the words "gay panic"? I couldn't resist.
This build was challenging, to say the least. I didn't have the right colors to build her school uniform, so I had to go with her Grom dress instead (what a shame, I know :P ). I wound up redesigning the interior structure of the skirt twice, and the head also went through several iterations. The gem on her chest is the back end of a cherry element, the rest of which I hid with panels, hinge trickery, and vertically cut flex tubing. Then there were the eyes, which, in the interest of keeping everything 100% Lego, are not decals but rather tiny cutouts of existing Lego stickers which I've been stockpiling for this very reason. Getting the eyes right took 2+ hours, as much time as the rest of the head. I also had to cheat with tan stickers under the ears to cover a half plate gap.
For the edit, I tried to recreate the background from the Enchanted Grom dance scene as best I could, in many cases by literally copy and pasting elements over and then bloating them to adjust for perspective. I think it at least kind of worked out, but I'll probably stick to simpler backgrounds in the future because this one took many hours to complete.
I'm currently away from my collection, but I'm already planning to build at least one more character from the Owl House come December. I also have plans for Avatar, She-ra, and Steven Universe builds... can you tell how I've been spending quarantine yet? In any case, if anyone is looking for a good way to pass six hours, I can't recommend The Owl House highly enough. Go watch it's good.