im3 deep space armor

[spudafett]

currently just a WIP...

Iron man's deep space armor, or gemini, which will be seen in the upcoming IM3

concept art and preview still shot of this armor:


and the crappy assembler's toy:


Now... not only are the assemblers line of iron man figures a discrace of plastic and do not be deserved to be called "action figures". (hell, it looks like it came from a happy meal), but the deep space armor doesn't even match up well with the movie armor!

so... I thought this would be a pretty simple one to build on my own. Test out my sculpting abilities, and do some learning along the way...

here's the WIP shots I've got done so far:











paint:






It's not fantastic.... my sculpting isn't amazing. But it looks better than the assemblers figure IMO. lol. I hope to get a few coats of the white on the figure without it looking too thick, white is a pain in the rear to paint we'll see how it turns out with all the details painted. I'm pretty sure I can hide some of my sculpting mistakes with the paintwork too.

[SGCaper]

Not too shabby. Might I suggest if you do another figure with a lot of white, like this one, use a couple light coats of spray white first then brush all the darker colors on top. You'll get a really nice white base to work on.

[spudafett]

yeah, SG, I figured that's what I should have done. I thought about spraying a coat on, but then it'd ruin the silver joints I used... which I specifically used to prevent paint rub by not painting them. but, I should have went with my initial though and just masked them somehow.

[spudafett]

Got this armor finished up. what do you guys think?






a comparison:


helmetless:



compared to mk7(?)


what do you guys think?

[Asphalt]

So much better than the official version. I knew those things sucked, but I didn't realize they appear to be recylcled molds from the Animated Young ironman line. They are so skinny.