Custom/Kitbash: Cigar (or Cigarette) Girl

Thanks for digging up this thread BAM so I can see this amazing custom! Well done Stryker! Really love the details in the cart!

Thanks for showing ! What a great idea. Maybe we can get more of these Pin Up Photos from the 50 ´? Your sortiment is better than in the original pictures. Whisky, cigarrs and a cutter ! Al Capone cuts fingers with it

csyeung wrote:Thanks for digging up this thread BAM so I can see this amazing custom! Well done Stryker! Really love the details in the cart!

Ephiane wrote:Thanks for showing ! What a great idea. Maybe we can get more of these Pin Up Photos from the 50 ´? Your sortiment is better than in the original pictures. Whisky, cigarrs and a cutter ! Al Capone cuts fingers with it

Thank you both. I’m a big fan of the Classic Pin-Up Era, so this was a dream project. I’m glad she’s appreciated.

By the way, do we know who the head sculpt intends to portray? At times I'm thinking I'm picking up some Heidi Klum vibes, but then I'm not so sure.

GubernatorFan wrote:By the way, do we know who the head sculpt intends to portray? At times I'm thinking I'm picking up some Heidi Klum vibes, but then I'm not so sure.

Please Gube.... She´s a cute nice cigarr girl. Not a sadistic sick old Lady that feels fun by torture young models with pain and fear

Ephiane wrote:Please Gube.... She´s a cute nice cigarr girl. Not a sadistic sick old Lady that feels fun by torture young models with pain and fear

LOL. Hide. She will find and punish you for saying that!

You know, I remember this thread back in the "old" days when this board just got started, and things were coming fast and furious and we "happy few" were enjoying our new board! And if I recall, I made mention of how I prefer classic black or nude stockings over the red ones... so hah! I'm going to totally take credit for the new look!    All kidding aside, she looks even better now and I still love all those little knick knacks you put together.

BTW I bought my lightbox on Amazon and was quite pleased with the lighting. It's by a company called ESDDI and is pretty well made, not flimsy like a lot of them. I do supplement sometimes with a high powered 5500k lamp through the front door for extra light.

tankgirlfuzzy wrote:You know, I remember this thread back in the "old" days when this board just got started, and things were coming fast and furious and we "happy few" were enjoying our new board! And if I recall, I made mention of how I prefer classic black or nude stockings over the red ones... so hah! I'm going to totally take credit for the new look!    All kidding aside, she looks even better now and I still love all those little knick knacks you put together.

BTW I bought my lightbox on Amazon and was quite pleased with the lighting. It's by a company called ESDDI and is pretty well made, not flimsy like a lot of them. I do supplement sometimes with a high powered 5500k lamp through the front door for extra light.

Haha! Believe me, I remember your input from those early days, and once I saw these stockings about a year ago, I couldn’t have agreed more — and you were right; I’m glad you approve.

I have some additional lights that I’m going to put in the photo tent, so I’m hoping theyre strong enough to actually do some good.

The lovely cigar girl ought to put on a promising smile instead of looking soooo serious.

Well, I think she actually does have a bit of a Mona Lisa smile... besides, she is probably not amused by the sexist things some inconsiderate patrons have hurled at her. As for the big smiles, these happen on FaceApp.

She is fully aware of her lovely costume she has put on to well let's say stimulate her customers. She wouldn't sell as much as she does when wearing long slacks.

GubernatorFan -- I'm not sure who the sculpt is meant to portray, but from some angles she resembles Emily Deschanel from the show Bones.

skywalkersaga wrote:GubernatorFan -- I'm not sure who the sculpt is meant to portray, but from some angles she resembles Emily Deschanel from the show Bones.

That's a pretty good guess. Now that you say it, I can't unsee it. It wouldn't surprise me if that is who it is based on.

Stryker2011 wrote:

skywalkersaga wrote:GubernatorFan -- I'm not sure who the sculpt is meant to portray, but from some angles she resembles Emily Deschanel from the show Bones.

That's a pretty good guess. Now that you say it, I can't unsee it. It wouldn't surprise me if that is who it is based on.

Yes, I looked her up, and I think the resemblance is there. I don't know if it is accidental or by design.

GubernatorFan wrote:

Stryker2011 wrote:

skywalkersaga wrote:GubernatorFan -- I'm not sure who the sculpt is meant to portray, but from some angles she resembles Emily Deschanel from the show Bones.

That's a pretty good guess. Now that you say it, I can't unsee it. It wouldn't surprise me if that is who it is based on.

Yes, I looked her up, and I think the resemblance is there. I don't know if it is accidental or by design.

Glad you guys agree! And yeah, the blond hair threw me at first but I always felt there was something familiar about that sculpt. Even if it's not 'supposed' to be her, it would definitely work for a kitbash of that character...

Well, I just received this really great and wonderful FaceApp photo done by Ephiane for me, so with permission I’m posting this really cool pic for everyone. Pretty awesome! And I’m grateful for the effort. Please enjoy and give praise to our FaceApp aficionado.

Pretty awesome indeed. Well done, Mark, for putting her together with so much love and attention to detail, and well done, Ephiane, for making her smile so beautifully.

That looks amazing! Brings her to "life," it looks so real! Wonderful job to you both!

Friends... all i´ve done is to pressed a button on my mobile phone

But many thanks for this Thread. I already said i get all my inspirations here in the forum. I read in this Thread there are fans of old pinup pictures ... so the work is in progress

My theory why she not smile: She is stone cold Soviet assassin. Her exaggerated smile is actually mockery of capitalist pig gentlemen's smiles, throwing looks and comments at her, three seconds before violent action sequence.
Whiskey bottle is nitroglycerin, short white Lucky Strikes are uranium posion darts, long thick brown Cuban cigars are little rockets. And we don't want talk about cigar cutter. Sometimes cigar cutter is just cigar cutter!

Her favourite color is red. When violence is done, music starts, sea of blood will turn into swirling red ocean, silhouettes of cigar girls diving and launching Cuban cigar missiles from their nuclear launch trays, giant cigar cutters cutting people in half in artsy slowmotion. Shirley Bassett starts singing. It's famous song with same name as famous agent action motion picture,
Lucky Strykes.

Oh man, so glad to see this thread resurrected! It's such a cool concept, and gorgeous figure. I really like the new stockings too. Really great to see it again.

Well, not to take away from Ephi's wonderful FaceApp, but I wanted to see what this would look like with an "actual" smiling head sculpt. And since I've had this Facepool head for quite some time, I thought I'd give it a shot and see what everyone thought. Better, or go back to the original?

This looks great, actually. Might have been nice to have two identically dressed and equipped figures, one with each head. I think I'm already attached to the blonde, but both work perfectly.

I think the new one looks even better, but I am a Facepool fan anyway

It also confirms my Russian agent theory, as this head is from Ana Battle Angel.

She looks awesome Mark

The facepool head is very cute! But I admit I prefer the original head.... the blond hair and style seems somehow more suited to the vintage look.

She looks Amazing. I have to say there´s more life in her than before. Now without real hair she looks more real than before. Confused by this ? Yes  

GubernatorFan wrote:This looks great, actually. Might have been nice to have two identically dressed and equipped figures, one with each head. I think I'm already attached to the blonde, but both work perfectly.

Oh man! I can’t even imagine trying to make another one. But that would be cool.

Ovy wrote:I think the new one looks even better, but I am a Facepool fan anyway

It also confirms my Russian agent theory, as this head is from Ana Battle Angel.

Those damn Russkies!

BAMComix wrote:She looks awesome Mark

Thanks, Dal.

skywalkersaga wrote:The facepool head is very cute! But I admit I prefer the original head.... the blond hair and style seems somehow more suited to the vintage look.

I know what you mean. I’ve had that head on her for so long, it’s hard to get used to this one. I’m going to leave the new one on her for awhile and see if I can get used to it, or go back to the original.

Ephiane wrote:She looks Amazing. I have to say there´s more life in her than before. Now without real hair she looks more real than before. Confused by this ? Yes  

Thanks, Ephi. Your FaceApp inspired me to try this, just to see if a more “animated” expression would suit her since your pic was so awesome.

Given that now you know exactly what you need to get or do, provided you can find another of each element, wouldn't making a second one be relatively easy?