Champions requires miniatures to play out combats. I decided to create LEGO minifigures for my and my friends' characters, so we could stop using random items to represent our characters. The others I could do pretty well by combining existing LEGO elements, but I wanted to go the extra mile for Solitaire, so I decided to customise a LEGO minifig. I had done sketches of the character, whose look is also based on Deadpool (mixed a little with Matt Wagner's Grendel), so I knew all I'd really have to do the head.

I used an X-Acto knife blade to scrape the large droid paint job from the face of the head. While this did dim the lustre of the plastic a bit, it also created a rough surface that I hoped would help to catch the paint. Next, I cut a paint mask from a piece of a sticker, and painted the black eye patterns in Testors Black model paint. I waited for those to dry, and put on the white eye dots in Polly-S Dragon White paint. Voila! Solitaire's head, in LEGO form.

I've always tried to be very careful with the haed, because I didn't put any sealer over the paint, but I haven't had any real issues with it as of yet, and it was used pretty heavily (once a week or so for a period of months) as a gaming miniature.