Custom/Kitbash: Cigar (or Cigarette) Girl

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?

GubernatorFan wrote: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?

Honestly, the tray and it’s contents alone was an absolute pain in the butt to assemble, make, and gather — and it took about a year and a half. I’m not really that patient anymore.

Hmmm, yes, I suppose it would have to be the same type of trey and stock if they are meant to match, and that would be a pain.

That's cool, I remember them from old movies but also from some old (really old) cartoons that showed them sometimes, I think they always had to do with the wolf character.

Theboo-bomb wrote:That's cool, I remember them from old movies but also from some old (really old) cartoons that showed them sometimes, I think they always had to do with the wolf character.

Haha! You’re thinking of the Tex Avery cartoons from the 40s, “The Wolf & Red Hot Riding Hood” (the girl was the inspiration for Jessica Rabbit):

Can't believe i missed this before. Gorgeous cigar girl, Stryker!
The current stockings look much better.

Can't stop looking at the tray contents... prompting Cigar Girl to snap at me,
"Excuse me, Sir, my eyes are up here!"

rollotomasi wrote:Can't believe i missed this before. Gorgeous cigar girl, Stryker!
The current stockings look much better.

Can't stop looking at the tray contents... prompting Cigar Girl to snap at me,
"Excuse me, Sir, my eyes are up here!"  

Thanks, rollotomasi. She was one of my Grail figures, so I’m glad so many have appreciated her.

I like the original head better; the blond bob just seems more appropriate and classic. The new smiling one is decent but the hair is too severe (and the hat doesn't fit as well) and the smile isn't really that "sunny" to me.

tankgirlfuzzy wrote:I like the original head better; the blond bob just seems more appropriate and classic. The new smiling one is decent but the hair is too severe (and the hat doesn't fit as well) and the smile isn't really that "sunny" to me.

All good points, TG. I agree, the smile seems a little “forced” to me. Ephiane did some more FaceApp mods with the new head, and some new hair styles, that I think make the new head look better than stock.

Fantastic!

They all look very good, Mark, all the more reason to outfit a second body this way if you can source or make the outfit. Maybe there can be a different, simpler trey to go with it?

The smile the Facepool HS had looks very nice to me. It´s more a smirking. A sardonically smile ? And if it looks like to be forced to someone.... sometimes a smile IS forced Let´s think she do it for the tip. There are sooo many ways to smile. I really love facepool for to made all that Headsculpts with facial expressions.





Maybe You don´t need a secound cigarr girl, but a Guy in a smoking
looking at her like the wolf in the comic

Stryker2011 wrote:

tankgirlfuzzy wrote:I like the original head better; the blond bob just seems more appropriate and classic. The new smiling one is decent but the hair is too severe (and the hat doesn't fit as well) and the smile isn't really that "sunny" to me.

All good points, TG. I agree, the smile seems a little “forced” to me. Ephiane did some more FaceApp mods with the new head, and some new hair styles, that I think make the new head look better than stock.

Excellent work, very very very well done!!! Body, costume, details and faces! 1000%

I was watching an old movie (circa 1944) last night in which Cigarette Girls were featured prominently. This figure well captures the general appearance of Cigarette Girls as portrayed in the movies.

Was the adorable little cap part of the original costume you purchased, or did you find it elsewhere... or make it? (EDIT: found it on eBay; see what you've started? You guys are such enablers! )

Having searched the term 'cigarette' here on OneSixthFigures, this is the ONLY thread the emerged.
I had hoped there might be more results.. something including 'how to..' 'make a 1/6th scale cigarette' for example.

Cigarette's, has anyone here made one? ..for the moment all i can think of is to cut down a toothpick and paint it
I have searched on ebay, but have not been too sold on what's on offer.
In my humble 1/6th collection, the Hot Toys Sarah Connor ships with the best 1/6th scale cigarette.

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Looking through this thread. Great figure!

ukshaun wrote:Cigarettes, has anyone here made one? ..for the moment all i can think of is to cut down a toothpick and paint it.

For cigarettes, I have used cotton swabs (commonly called "Q-tips" in the States), the kind with cardboard rather than plastic shafts. Cut them to length, dab one end with a black felt-tip marker, and good enough!


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Another option is round wooden toothpicks (or cocktail skewers), which actually have a more appropriate diameter for scale model cigarettes... but being wood colored, they need to be painted. The size is about right, however.


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Some forum members have painted the tips of miniature cigarettes red or orange, and then glued a few flakes of pepper to the tip to give an appearance of glowing ash.

It's interesting to see this topic surface again. After seeing it... what, three or four years ago... I actually purchased most of the costume parts I needed to assemble a similar "Cigarette Girl" figure. I ran across those parts in one of my storage tubs a few months back and briefly thought about searching for this topic before promptly forgetting all about it again.