Equine Hawkgirl!



(Comet from comicsallience)



There are plenty of horses within comix.


Comet the Super horse, (though he is half man at one point) Silver known as the Lone Rangers horse, Tornado who is ridden by Zorro, of course Jonah Hex has a horse, Winged Victory belonging to the Shinning Knight,  and of course there are various horses within Amethysts' Gem World.

Personally; I LOVE horses, both my son and I ride and I have had a love horses for as long as I can remember.


SO...


When does it come the time to put the paint brush down for a little while from making little men for other people to picking up the paintbrush and making something I would like to see as an adult, yet it strikes a chord with my inner child.


There is a sub culture of customisers out there known as the 'Bronies', guys who customise My Little Pony into superheros and popular Sci-Fi characters.


They do, at times sadly come under criticisim.


Raiding my local toy store and seeing what was on sale; my attentions turned to the My Little Pony. 


Yes, I collected them as a child, but their stumpy shape still kinda bugged me.


I don't really want to call it a MLP knock off but the next shelve down had a product called Twilight Ponies, these are slightly bigger and have a real pony shape and half the price of the leading brand.


I was happy!


Off to the counter I trotted!... and bought the leader of the Twilight ponies who just happened to have wings.


It shouted HAWKGIRL PONY!!! to be made.

 She had a nylon mane and tail. This could be a problem, and it was!!


I spent the afternoon dying a toys plastic hair to try and get a decent red stain as I knew the trad way of hair dye wouldn't work.


It didn't work, it rinsed clear every time.

Leaving the dye to dry and combed through gave it a sticky look which I wasn't going to work with.

Off to the pony parlour!!


Time for mane and tail cut...

I did feel a tad mean doing this!!

It was easier to go with cutting it off and sculpting one instead.


I have plans to do more of these things and the sculpted hair could really bring character to the generic toy sculpt.

I may have over thought this a little as I was trying to work out how the costume would work if you, I or anyone else for that matter would dress a horse up as Hawkgirl... (not that I condone that I must add.)


Anyhow! there's not much more to say... so without further a do!


I present my first pony superhero  HAWKGIRL!!  I hope it raises a smile, laugh or even a snort... :)