I'll be the first to admit, I'm not an Ultimate Marvel fan... at all. I never was, even when it was fresh and coming out. I tried to get into it several times (Wizard Magazine used to talk it up big time), but it was never for me. However, I am a big Black Widow fan, and I thought Ultimate Black Widow would make for a really cool figure. I'd been planning to make her for a while, but, two years ago, my best option for the boots were the Gamerverse Ms. Marvel figure, which, of course, wasn't proportionate to the regular female figure body, given that it was made for the teen female body. So I put the idea for her on the back burner and worked on other things. And then Hasbro revealed the Sylvie figure, and I know what I had to do!

Recipe:
Head: Retro Wasp
Upper torso: Female SHIELD Agent cast
Arms: Walgreens Emma Frost
Vest: MCU Infinity War Black Widow
Belt: Domino (2018 Sasquatch wave)
Lower torso, legs, hands: Sylvie
Thigh Pouches: Lady Deadpool
Guns and effects: Target Exclusive White Costume Black Widow

For the head, I used a Retro Wasp head. I ordered a new dry brushing brush and applied some red to the hair. I used the Dremel to ground away the MCU sculpt on her lower torso and used Milliput to resculpt it. I used a flat black on her outfit with silver for the trim (buttons, zippers, etc.) and I mixed up a flesh tone for the neck. I had left over Emma Frost arms from a Madelyne Pryor, and they were perfect, complete with their glove cuffs; I didn't need to paint a thing on them. I also had to slice open the trigger fingers so she could properly fire her guns, but that X-acto knife made that an easy task.

Ultimate Black Widow was a lot of fun to make, and I'm thrilled to finally add her to the collection!