elvira mistress of the dark

Hello, my dears.
Sorry, I must have lost my inspiration. Nothing new from me. But in all your pictures I saw a stauette of Elvira in the man cave of Striker. I once did this character in a 1:6 scale figure because I wanted to see if I could get the poses right. I never showed it and forgot it in my archives, because I didn't really get her right. Whatever, I'll show her.  

the inspiration




my one..

Oh, Elvira, the girl with the enormous... ratings!
Your version looks awesome.

Ephiane!!! 
You have not been the only one... I've been in a bit of a rut too (albeit working on multiple projects). But I blame your absence for it! Anyway, delighted you are here again, and hope you won't be a stranger.
As for your Elvira, I think she has something that the original did not have, at least visually (can't say I remember the movie very well) -- a sense of humor and an interesting character beyond her "mere" visual appearance. Love the photos, hope there are more of her and your other awesome characters and settings.

Welcome back, Ephi. I love that you did Elvira. I have a soft spot for Cassandra Peterson — worked in conjunction with her a couple times — lovely, down to earth lady. Happy to see you back.

Happy to see you around, Ephiane! And thanks for this fun figure and photoshoot, you did a great job bringing her to life. :')

skywalkersaga wrote:Happy to see you around, Ephiane!  And thanks for this fun figure and photoshoot, you did a great job bringing her to life. :')

Hi Sky. Sent you an email message about something else. Just checking you saw it.

GubernatorFan wrote:

skywalkersaga wrote:Happy to see you around, Ephiane!  And thanks for this fun figure and photoshoot, you did a great job bringing her to life. :')

Hi Sky. Sent you an email message about something else. Just checking you saw it.

Thank you, got it.

Visisonor wrote:Oh, Elvira, the girl with the enormous... ratings!
Your version looks awesome.

Thanks Vision. Yes, your saying could come from Elvira herself. A somewhat eccentric person. let's call her delicate. The charakter for sure, not the actress.

GubernatorFan wrote:Ephiane!!! 
You have not been the only one... I've been in a bit of a rut too (albeit working on multiple projects). But I blame your absence for it! Anyway, delighted you are here again, and hope you won't be a stranger.
As for your Elvira, I think she has something that the original did not have, at least visually (can't say I remember the movie very well) -- a sense of humor and an interesting character beyond her "mere" visual appearance. Love the photos, hope there are more of her and your other awesome characters and settings.

Thank you very much, Gube. Shame on me for leaving for a while and taking your inspiration with me. Just kick my ass to make me do something new. Maybe it's bad for inspiration to start too many projects at once. It's just like yours. There are a lot of projects that you start with that you're not happy with and in the end you don't get anything done.

Stryker2012 wrote:Welcome back, Ephi. I love that you did Elvira. I have a soft spot for Cassandra Peterson — worked in conjunction with her a couple times — lovely, down to earth lady. Happy to see you back.

Thank You, Stryker. Oh my God, you know her personally? What a happy coincidence that I learned more about the artist who embodies this character through you. This is a chic statuette of Elvira in your man cave. I love so many of these wonderful stauettes, but I can't put them all in my house.  

skywalkersaga wrote:Happy to see you around, Ephiane!  And thanks for this fun figure and photoshoot, you did a great job bringing her to life. :')

Thanks, Sky.
That's exactly what I try to do and what makes the hobby interesting for me. Present characters as if they were alive.

I don't know how you do it, but I think your character posings are the among the most realistic in the hobby. The legs look so real here.

Awesome to see you here again and I hope you will show many more pics and ideas in the future

Oh yay! Good to see you around!
And while it would be hard to find a sculpt that is true to the original I would certainly say that you captured her essence very well! 

They really need to make some flat hands! I needed them for an idea the other day...

Ephiane wrote:Yes, your saying could come from Elvira herself.

And it did, it's a quote from the 1988 movie

Nice to see you here again!

Ephiane wrote:

GubernatorFan wrote:Ephiane!!! 
You have not been the only one... I've been in a bit of a rut too (albeit working on multiple projects). But I blame your absence for it! Anyway, delighted you are here again, and hope you won't be a stranger.
As for your Elvira, I think she has something that the original did not have, at least visually (can't say I remember the movie very well) -- a sense of humor and an interesting character beyond her "mere" visual appearance. Love the photos, hope there are more of her and your other awesome characters and settings.

Thank you very much, Gube. Shame on me for leaving for a while and taking your inspiration with me. Just kick my ass to make me do something new. Maybe it's bad for inspiration to start too many projects at once. It's just like yours. There are a lot of projects that you start with that you're not happy with and in the end you don't get anything done.

Consider your derrière kicked in the nicest, politest, and most undemanding way possible. But, yes, multiple projects at the same time slows them all down, especially if one doesn't have too much time or inspiration to begin with. By the way, speaking of kicking, Valiarde is right, your Elvira's legs look extremely realistic in the photos.

Very cool work, Ephiane! So nice that you are back!

Very good effort.
Some additional black eye liner on the lower part of the eye-lid would really help.

Thanks All, that is a TBL S42 i think. I was hard to modifie the shoes. The S42 Feet are longer. So i used Glue and little metal pieces for to get them fit.
Does anyone here know a manufacturer of shoes that fit an S 42?

Valiarde wrote:I don't know how you do it, but I think your character posings are the among the most realistic in the hobby. The legs look so real here.

Awesome to see you here again and I hope you will show many more pics and ideas in the future

Thank You so much, Val. Your photographs inspire me to create something again. For your compliment I tried it again, but still no real match to the original pose.

Diana wrote:Oh yay! Good to see you around!
And while it would be hard to find a sculpt that is true to the original I would certainly say that you captured her essence very well! 

They really need to make some flat hands! I needed them for an idea the other day...

Thank you so much, Di. Good for me for having tons of heads in my drawers. This is a Wonder Girl head that I gave a new hairstyle. Close, but the jawline is more massive than Cassandra Peterson's. Can´t wait to see what figure you do with the flat hand idea.

Oh Edit ! This will be in stock soon, could be nice for Your Project ?

Visisonor wrote:

Ephiane wrote:Yes, your saying could come from Elvira herself.

And it did, it's a quote from the 1988 movie

Nice to see you here again!

Thanks Vision. We need a facepalm emote here. Just for myself.  

GubernatorFan wrote:

Ephiane wrote:

GubernatorFan wrote:Ephiane!!! 
You have not been the only one... I've been in a bit of a rut too (albeit working on multiple projects). But I blame your absence for it! Anyway, delighted you are here again, and hope you won't be a stranger.
As for your Elvira, I think she has something that the original did not have, at least visually (can't say I remember the movie very well) -- a sense of humor and an interesting character beyond her "mere" visual appearance. Love the photos, hope there are more of her and your other awesome characters and settings.

Thank you very much, Gube. Shame on me for leaving for a while and taking your inspiration with me. Just kick my ass to make me do something new. Maybe it's bad for inspiration to start too many projects at once. It's just like yours. There are a lot of projects that you start with that you're not happy with and in the end you don't get anything done.

Consider your derrière kicked in the nicest, politest, and most undemanding way possible. But, yes, multiple projects at the same time slows them all down, especially if one doesn't have too much time or inspiration to begin with. By the way, speaking of kicking, Valiarde is right, your Elvira's legs look extremely realistic in the photos.

Outch, ah finally we speak the same language. Jokes aside, I'm actually starting to craft more again. Thanks for encouraging me.

Randam Hajile wrote:Very cool work, Ephiane! So nice that you are back!

Thanks Randam. I love Your work too.

ukshaun wrote:Very good effort.
Some additional black eye liner on the lower part of the eye-lid would really help.

Thanks Ukshaun.
Praising this from you means a lot to me. I have no experience with depicting characters in as much detail as you. I have very fine colored pencils with a thickness of 0.5 mm. I could try Elvira's make-up with this. But I plan to use this head for other figures and that would be permanent.

I don't know whether or not it met your expectations, but the pose is most effective, Ephiane.

Most impressive!

I think it was good to give it another shot, I think the new pic might be my favourite from this series. The head looks not so glossy like on the similar couch pic from the first round. Great shot

Oooh! Nice one! Definitely my favourite of the bunch.

Those hands sadly won't do, but good idea!! I really want that wrist movement though. Think Trinity pushing her open hand flat against the glass of the phone booth. ^^

Love the new shot, Ephi.

Great looking Elvira!

Nice work on the hair and costume!