*Light-Up* Saving-the-World Spike (April 2006)

For those unfamiliar with customising, the pale pink stuff is the colour of the 'super sculpey' sculpting clay that I put over the plastic figures. It can be translucent, so you can often see the original colour of the figure underneath. Once I've finished sculpting, I always completely repaint the whole figure.

Ever since I saw the horrid orange Spike figure, I've wanted to make him into an episode specific burning-up Chosen Spike.

I planned to use Johnny Storm's light-up body parts but I couldn't make it work. I just used a few of his flames. I remembered I had a gadget with tiny red lights on wires, so I drilled holes into Wesley's cabinet to poke the lights through. I added sculpey and warped the cabinet by boiling. I painted the stand to look like rock.

I lined up Spike to work out where the lights showed through. I sculpted the sleeves and cut his coat to show the lights. I drilled into the figure in a few places to give some burn texture. I made the amulet from a glass bead.

Here are photos of the parts, the cabinet from the front and back, and unpainted Spike, with and without the lights.

I painted parts of his body with flesh and clothes and some as burns. Followed by the final figure with the lights off and on.

Here's Spike with some Buffylicious company. Just for fun!