ASH: Attacktix Base of the Pillar

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Despite her appearance, the Base of the Pillar is a rather frightened young girl. In the 2020s, her native Iran's view towards paranormals is that they are to be killed as demonic abominations, and their entire families usually get killed too, just in case, unless they quietly kill the child before anyone finds out. Base's parents, however, claimed that she had run away one night, but that Allah gave life to the stone outside their house to provide them with a new child. Recruited into the Moslem Confederation's "Righteous Flame" team (which also counts Scirocco among its members), she never speaks, pretending to be practically mindless, although she does still pray, as befits her assumed role. She was crushed by the World Serpent in 2025 and presumed dead, but instead a far more feminine crystalline entity arose from the buried rubble, and now goes by the name Geode. Her parents know she is alive, but she has to pretend to be someone else entirely (she passes herself off as an Egyptian-American) to protect them from reprisals.

The base figure is the striker Chewbacca. I removed the bandolier and satchel, reduced the height of the head and carved away most of the face. Removing the figure from the base ended up tearing away part of the base itself (oops), so I used sheet styrene to create footprints, to ensure that the feet would be flat enough to glue over the holes securely. I glued the fingers together (the drawing of her from the cover of ASH #50 has three fingers, but I couldn't get that to work, so I settled on two) before surrounding them in putty. I used a LOT of Milliput to build this one up, almost none of the original figure was visible under it by the time I was done. Rather than making nice smooth surfaces like I usually do, I deliberately used the sander heads on my Dremel to create rough, striated surfaces. The paint was pewter gray with country gray highlights, then I covered it all in a brown ink wash and applied highlights of sandstone and territorial beige. Raw Umber and black were used to deepen the eye and mouth pits. All articulation (just the arms) was retained. I changed the Rally power to affect all Moslem Confederation figures, since there's really just Scirocco. He can bring her out of Back-ups, and she can bring him back.