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From the moment that Zica toys first introduced the highly poseable “Yvonne” action figure, I was grateful to have a 1/9 scale female body that was a considerable upgrade from the standard MEGO female.
I am still very grateful.
But while Zica Yvonne, was a structural improvement over the MEGO female (nicer ball joint articulations for far better posing), she was nevertheless only a marginal improvement in terms of the depiction of an athletic female’s anatomical proportions
With a fit, athletic female form, the predominant weight mass is situated in the lower portion of the body (hips and upper thighs). This is opposite from a fit athletic male form which carries its predominant weight mass up top (broad shoulders, chest and muscular arms.
Like MEGO female, I found Yvonne to be overly tall and lanky, with limbs that were thin and and spindly. Her very slender arms and legs only looked marginally acceptable when used with her smallest bust torso. When used with her medium or large bust torsos, her arms and legs configuration looked completely disproportionate. She became inappropriately top heavy, with virtually no predominant weight mass in her lower mid-section.
Years ago, I had begun to develop my own 1/9 scale body that would allow me to depict an athletic female of approximately 7 inches in height (approximately 5’ 3” tall real life female).
But I abandoned my work on my own female body when Zica Yvonne came on the scene.
And now I have decided to adapt the athletic, toned arms and shorter, better proportioned legs that I developed for my own 1:9 female to the Yvonne head, Torso and pelvis resulting in a female body anatomy and height that I think looks magnitudes better than the awkward And lanky MEGO and Zica females.
My female arms are kit-bash / re-sculpted from two different action figure sources, while the legs have been painstakingly kit-bashed / re-sculpted from no fewer than four different action figure sources.
I’ve spent the last 2 weeks making additional sculpt changes to these limbs to make them compatible for Zica use.
Now I’m just about ready to mold and cast these limbs into final, useable arms and legs.
Just like the Female body I was developing years ago, this “adjusted” Zica “athletic female” stands 7” in height... a perfect size for petite athletic female characters like Supergirl, Batgirl, Poison Ivy, or Harley Quinn.
I am still very grateful.
But while Zica Yvonne, was a structural improvement over the MEGO female (nicer ball joint articulations for far better posing), she was nevertheless only a marginal improvement in terms of the depiction of an athletic female’s anatomical proportions
With a fit, athletic female form, the predominant weight mass is situated in the lower portion of the body (hips and upper thighs). This is opposite from a fit athletic male form which carries its predominant weight mass up top (broad shoulders, chest and muscular arms.
Like MEGO female, I found Yvonne to be overly tall and lanky, with limbs that were thin and and spindly. Her very slender arms and legs only looked marginally acceptable when used with her smallest bust torso. When used with her medium or large bust torsos, her arms and legs configuration looked completely disproportionate. She became inappropriately top heavy, with virtually no predominant weight mass in her lower mid-section.
Years ago, I had begun to develop my own 1/9 scale body that would allow me to depict an athletic female of approximately 7 inches in height (approximately 5’ 3” tall real life female).
But I abandoned my work on my own female body when Zica Yvonne came on the scene.
And now I have decided to adapt the athletic, toned arms and shorter, better proportioned legs that I developed for my own 1:9 female to the Yvonne head, Torso and pelvis resulting in a female body anatomy and height that I think looks magnitudes better than the awkward And lanky MEGO and Zica females.
My female arms are kit-bash / re-sculpted from two different action figure sources, while the legs have been painstakingly kit-bashed / re-sculpted from no fewer than four different action figure sources.
I’ve spent the last 2 weeks making additional sculpt changes to these limbs to make them compatible for Zica use.
Now I’m just about ready to mold and cast these limbs into final, useable arms and legs.
Just like the Female body I was developing years ago, this “adjusted” Zica “athletic female” stands 7” in height... a perfect size for petite athletic female characters like Supergirl, Batgirl, Poison Ivy, or Harley Quinn.
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