The Gift (one of three parts)

Season 5, Episode 22: The Gift
Original Air Date: 22 May 2001 In the 100th episode, another imminent apocalypse is at hand in Sunnydale. Buffy must square off against a God when Glory prepares to use Dawn to break down the walls between the dimensions and unleash all Hell on Earth. Buffy and the gang go to battle, knowing that not all of them will survive.

I made the scene where Giles steps in and kills Ben (a.k.a. Glory). I thought this scene was interesting that Buffy could beat the snot out of Glory, a god, but when it comes to a human, she's not capable of murder.

This scene was a very difficult one to do!

I started out making Ben. Since Glory was wearing all black and an open-toed shoe, I knew that Ben would also have to wear this since Glory changes back into Ben. I found a head from a hockey figure that was in scale with the body I was using. I used Xander's torso (and arms) from the Moore action figure line. (Just a little FYI--This was actually a recycled part from my redo of the Xander Primeval scene--that is why the parts look different). The only figure that had bare feet was Angel. I had already made a cast of his legs so I was very happy. Here is what I had so far...

The problem here as you can clearly see the legs just would not work. No matter how much I chopped away at this, it would not work. Grrr.

So, I used a Lord Of The Rings glow in the dark skeleton figure's legs. I had to cut down the feet and I completely re-sculped the feet. I have to admit I love the way it turned out. It could always be better, but I was satisfied. The pictures aren't the greatest, but you get the idea.

Giles was another extremely difficult custom to make. He was in this crouched down position and they never showed exactly how he looked. So I had to get into the position, and act out how he would have looked. I was going to try to use a Deluxe 50s Angel figure but the legs would not bend into that position. So, off come the legs and out comes the sculpy. I have the regular sculpy clay and the super sculpy. I originally used the sculpy clay. After spending hours sculpting and the piece was boiled, I noticed the legs shifted a bit. I tried to ever so carefully bend them and it broke. So all that work went into the trash. I did end up using the calf part of the leg. I just had to sculpt the thighs. Here are some before pictures...

Here is my post breakage legs...

And wouldn't you know that the same thing happened. The legs shifted in the process of being boiled so I had to re-adjust them, which made them break. Grrr. So I just got out my lovely glue gun (I love that thing!) and I glued away...

To make Giles I used the 50s Deluxe Angel legs and torso. I used School Hard Spike's arms, I used a jacket--I think it was Spike's jacket. For the head I started out with a Chosen Giles head but when I panted it I didn't like it. Plus he had his glasses on when he was killing Ben and the glasses looked really bad on this head. So I swapped it for a Giles head (Moore action figure). This looks so much more like him. I did not repaint him. I put on the glasses that I think come in Wesley's box. I know they look like goggles. I really was not in the mood to spend more time sculpting glasses. I also had to boil Giles' hands to make them look like they were in a closed clamp (like what he did in the show when he held Ben's nose and mouth).

For the base I wanted it to have light coming in through the bottom. So I cut up an old VHS box. Then glued on some craft stitching board for the grate. After I spray painted this I hated the way it looked. So I redid this. For the newer one I used two backs from the display stands, filled it in with some clay, glued on the mesh board and I loved how it turned out. Here are the finished before and after pictures.