So my custom grails list was pretty much completing the Secret Six (Scandal, Jeannette, King Shark, and Ragdoll), and this lovely lady. For some reason I'm almost always more interested in the lower tier characters. Sure, I can enjoy Scott Snyder's Batman run, but at the same time, I'd rather read the Secret Six, Guardians of the Galaxy (Abnett/Lanning run before Bendis made them Space Avengers) and Kate Spencer here. Tired of seeing murderers go free, federal prosecutor Kate Spencer stole equipment from the evidence room and went after Copperhead after he escaped custody. After that she took on such characters as Shadow Thief, Doctor Psycho, and Phobia. She also joined the Birds of Prey for a while, and was also seen amongst the JSA just before Flashpoint sucked most of the joy out of the DCU. So Kate was kind of cross between Daredevil and the Punisher. They complain there aren't enough strong, female lead characters in comics, but how kickass is that? Of course it didn't hurt that she was a character steeped in DC legacy
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So, anyway, if I'm rambling on it's because I really do love the character, and if you can't tell, I really love this custom. She might look fairly simple but she had two sticking points that made her a challenge. The first was the silver piping on her custom. Oh sure, I could've just meticulously painted silver lines on her but that would've been a disservice to the character. But I had a decent plan of attack on that with gauge wire. The first source didn't work out well, but then I found Fun Wire at the store which was just wire covered in plastic, and the plastic covering adhered much easier than metal. Still, it was a painstaking effort to apply inch by inch in the proper shapes. But the main challenge were those gauntlets. Oh, how I searched for something that might work. I had resigned myself to maybe sculpting them until I found a DC Collectibles Huntress that looked promising. It took some mods to fit them on, but I think they work perfect. Besides that she's completely Star Sapphire Wonder Woman (I decided the slightly bulkier frame and design of the torso would work better with the silver piping). Some armor pieces from a couple Funk Magic Chandra Nalaar (god bless Target clearance!) helped complete the armor, along with the hair from an ML Spider-girl figure (I swapped the ponytail for a shorter one from a WWE Rob Van Dam figure), and viola!
