Walking past the Break Room at work, I heard an odd buzzing sound. When I looked inside I saw we had a visitor: the winsome Wasp!

"Just passing through," said Ms. Van Dyne. "No need to worry. No Super-Villains."

"Nice to see you!" she called,flying over my head and out of the room.

She landed for a moment on top of the employee coat lockers.

She looked around for a moment. "I'm really just looking for something for Tony Stark," she said. "He thought there might be a Gamma Point Source here, but there isn't. No problem."

"One more picture before you go," I asked. Ms. Van Dyne smiled. "Of course!," she said. And then she was gone.

Janet Van Dyne is a Dark Phoenix body with Doctor Doom's feet, and the head of Kate Jackson as Sabrina from "Charlie's Angels" with sculpted hair. Her wings are cut from the smooth clear-plastic box from a "Moving Soldier Of The World," with little veins etched in with a dental pick.

Her costume is the bodysuit from Iron Man, a red Barbie Swimsuit that Time Forgot, Captain America's boots, Gauntlets cut from two of DareDevil's Golf-Club-Cover mitts, and a custom belt made of yellow pleather.

The costume here happened pretty much by accident. I put the figure in a spare Iron Man jumpsuit expecting it to be baggy, and it fit beautifully, so I left it there. Months later, I stumbled upon the red swimsuit and put it over the jumpsuit, and it looked good, so I decided to go for the full custom. I had a spare pair of Cap's boots, so I tried them on for size, planning to cut off the cuffs, but they just looked so Jaunty, I kept 'em. The gauntlets and belt were natural consequences, and the wings were a nice idea that just worked out.

Granting that the costume isn't an exact match for _any_ that Jan wore in the comics, considering the blinding array of costumes she's worn, I feel no compunction about taking liperties with this one... Although I'd still like to try to make the white one with one sleeve and one legging.

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