Due to my urgent desires for creating a handful of sexy female MEGO Bat-characters, (Batgirl, Barbara Gordon, Catwoman, and Harley Quinn) I have decided that the time is LONG overdue for the development of a new body for MEGO-scaled females.
I've always thought that the 8 inch scaled MEGO female body was very strangely shaped and proportioned. To my eyes, it looked lanky, and awkward and not at all “sexy” (by the classical definition of an athletic female).
Also, in terms of scale, the existing MEGO female body is far too big when compared to the MEGO male countertparts:
The average MEGO female character is 8 inches tall (when dressed), Exactly like the male characters. They feature heads that appear even larger than the men… particularly when you take into account their big hair!
Scale-wise, this equates to a real life woman standing over 6 feet tall, with a large head, colossal hair, and a long, awkward body that is built like a lanky BOY with breasts!
For 3 years now, I have tried to develop a nicer, sexier female body for the MEGO scale using the body parts from existing toy lines kit-bashed with MEGO body parts.
I investigated the excellent Volks female bodies only to find that while they are really beautifully sculpted and sexy, they are still TOO TALL. A volks “mini” female stands 22 cm tall. That’s over 8 and a half inches tall… NUDE! Way too tall next to the MEGO men.
Yes, the Volks female legs can be shortened so that the figure stands at an even 8 inches, but that is pushing things a bit, anatomically speaking. Plus the resulting figure still ends up standing too tall for a MEGO woman/ girl scaled next to an 8 inch MEGO male... in my view.
Like many of you, I discovered that Jakks Paciffic’s “Ruthless Agression” Wrestling characters provided excellent fodder for male custom MEGO-scaled characters.
I decided to experiment to see if the JP wrestling female characters were suitably appropriate in terms of body parts for the development of a custom MEGO female body.
Unfortunately, I quickly rejected the idea of using a JP female wrestling torso for the MEGO scale, because I felt that it was ultimately too small to be anatomically appropriate.
Boy was I was wrong.
The mistake I made during my early initial experiments was that I kept placing a MEGO female head (Invisible Woman, Mary Ellen, etc.) on JP female wrestler torso neck post. Naturally, it looked all wrong. The MEGO head was simply too large for a torso that small.
But I quickly came to a realization that changed my entire outlook. The average adult female cranium is considerably SMALLER than the average adult male cranium. That means that a properly-proportioned MEGO female cranium should be considerably smaller than what MEGO originally provided if the ladies are to be in correct scale with the men!
I saw that I needed to be planning my new custom Female MEGO body around a doll head that was much closer to the smaller size of a Breyer head or even a MEGO “Our Gang” boy’s head.
A Female doll head in that smaller size allowed once again for the application of a JP female wrestling torso.
The anatomical proportion between torso and head was now acceptable AND the resulting figure would still be MEGO scaled!!
Back in business!!!
Now for some proportional math:
At 1:9.5 MEGO scale, the 8 inch tall “heroic” MEGO male translates to a real-life man with a 6 foot 4 inch height. (Like Superman or The Batman).
The "athletically-built" young woman body type I’ve created stands exactly 7 inches tall (nude). At MEGO scale that translates to a real-life woman with a roughly 5 foot 6 inch height.
According to DC comics character stats Batgirl/ Barbara Gordon was 5 feet 6 inches tall (when she first became Batgirl at the age of 17). Selena Kyle/ Catwoman stands 5 feet 7 inches tall. And Supergirl is 5 feet 5 inches tall.
So the custom body I’ve created is a just about a perfect proportionate height for an “average” female next to 8 inch MEGO adult males.
I've always thought that the 8 inch scaled MEGO female body was very strangely shaped and proportioned. To my eyes, it looked lanky, and awkward and not at all “sexy” (by the classical definition of an athletic female).
Also, in terms of scale, the existing MEGO female body is far too big when compared to the MEGO male countertparts:
The average MEGO female character is 8 inches tall (when dressed), Exactly like the male characters. They feature heads that appear even larger than the men… particularly when you take into account their big hair!
Scale-wise, this equates to a real life woman standing over 6 feet tall, with a large head, colossal hair, and a long, awkward body that is built like a lanky BOY with breasts!
For 3 years now, I have tried to develop a nicer, sexier female body for the MEGO scale using the body parts from existing toy lines kit-bashed with MEGO body parts.
I investigated the excellent Volks female bodies only to find that while they are really beautifully sculpted and sexy, they are still TOO TALL. A volks “mini” female stands 22 cm tall. That’s over 8 and a half inches tall… NUDE! Way too tall next to the MEGO men.
Yes, the Volks female legs can be shortened so that the figure stands at an even 8 inches, but that is pushing things a bit, anatomically speaking. Plus the resulting figure still ends up standing too tall for a MEGO woman/ girl scaled next to an 8 inch MEGO male... in my view.
Like many of you, I discovered that Jakks Paciffic’s “Ruthless Agression” Wrestling characters provided excellent fodder for male custom MEGO-scaled characters.
I decided to experiment to see if the JP wrestling female characters were suitably appropriate in terms of body parts for the development of a custom MEGO female body.
Unfortunately, I quickly rejected the idea of using a JP female wrestling torso for the MEGO scale, because I felt that it was ultimately too small to be anatomically appropriate.
Boy was I was wrong.
The mistake I made during my early initial experiments was that I kept placing a MEGO female head (Invisible Woman, Mary Ellen, etc.) on JP female wrestler torso neck post. Naturally, it looked all wrong. The MEGO head was simply too large for a torso that small.
But I quickly came to a realization that changed my entire outlook. The average adult female cranium is considerably SMALLER than the average adult male cranium. That means that a properly-proportioned MEGO female cranium should be considerably smaller than what MEGO originally provided if the ladies are to be in correct scale with the men!
I saw that I needed to be planning my new custom Female MEGO body around a doll head that was much closer to the smaller size of a Breyer head or even a MEGO “Our Gang” boy’s head.
A Female doll head in that smaller size allowed once again for the application of a JP female wrestling torso.
The anatomical proportion between torso and head was now acceptable AND the resulting figure would still be MEGO scaled!!
Back in business!!!
Now for some proportional math:
At 1:9.5 MEGO scale, the 8 inch tall “heroic” MEGO male translates to a real-life man with a 6 foot 4 inch height. (Like Superman or The Batman).
The "athletically-built" young woman body type I’ve created stands exactly 7 inches tall (nude). At MEGO scale that translates to a real-life woman with a roughly 5 foot 6 inch height.
According to DC comics character stats Batgirl/ Barbara Gordon was 5 feet 6 inches tall (when she first became Batgirl at the age of 17). Selena Kyle/ Catwoman stands 5 feet 7 inches tall. And Supergirl is 5 feet 5 inches tall.
So the custom body I’ve created is a just about a perfect proportionate height for an “average” female next to 8 inch MEGO adult males.
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