Darla Dauntless...

If you can't tell by now, I caught up on a lot of stuff today picture wise, so for my third post for today, submitted for your perusal, I present my new daring 1930's adventuress...



Darla started out as a pair of boots actually... talk about starting from the ground up. I had purchased a pair of Hot Toys Resident Evil 5 Sheva Alomar's brown leather knee high boots.



I knew that whoever they were going to be used for was obviously going to have to be a Hot Toys True Type female body. So that was obviously the next thing added to her. After seeing the Dollsfigure Khaki Tan Explorer outfit on ebay.



So I knew the brown boots would go great with that, and having had the black version of it for my Spygirl Gillian, I knew it was decent enough for the money. Dollsfigure stuff is getting exactly what you pay for, it's relatively inexpensive and the quality is average. I paid I think $10 shipped for it.

Next came the decision of who would Darla be (well she didn't have the name Darla at the time), So after much searching, I decided on the Hot Toys Jessica Biel as Abigail Whistler head. I won her on EBay for around $45 shipped. So I got her head and it worked fine on an HT True Type body. The only thing I did extra to the head was repaint the eyes to make her more "mine" instead of stock.





So, having most of Darla's outfit together, I set to doing what I did with Gillian's version of the outfit, which is being it fits ok everywhere but the chest, I removed the upper two snaps and resewed the buttons on the opposite side to make it look properly unbuttoned... and yes, it's unbuttoned for a reason because she is a "pulp" style heroine...lol



I ditched the crappy canvas belt that the outfit came with and added a wide brown leather belt by DML. It fit the looks nicer and blended the transition of the top and shorts of the outfit as it is a one piece outfit.



So once the outfit was all complete, next came the gathering of accessories.



1. HAND ASSORTMENT. - Various Hands for various poses and holding items. All Hot Toys from various figures. 6 shown here, but 8 different hands in all for her.
2. GOLDEN IDOL. - Custom Idols. See my post HERE.
3. BRITISH SMLE MKIII RIFLE. - Dragon Models.
4. RELIC DAGGER. - Hot Toys from Prince of Persia Dastan.
5. U.S. M1911 HANDGUN. - BBI.
6. GERMAN ARTILLERY MODEL LUGER. - Dragon Models.
7. BULL WHIP. - Sideshow Indiana Jones.

Relic Dagger





SMLE MK III Rifle





Bull Whip



Artillery Model Luger





M1911



Darla still needs a couple of things. I need some pouches, a holster, a knife and sheath for her belt, but aside from that, I like how she turned out.







Thanks for looking.