A.I.M. 2 Finished

After finishing Mandrill I wanted to end up also with my other 100% A.I.M. 2, my second attempt to realize a A.I.M. soldier. So it isn't properly a custom or customization (same as for Mandrill) as it was not made starting from a base figure of the official collection from Eaglemoss.

I still have on progress Swarm as last one 100% newly made and then I'l spend some time on the real custom waiting for the next supply of Magic Sculpt.

Mandrill finished

Finally had time to finish Mandrill.. here is the result, hope you like it.

In these days I finalized the scult of Impulse, dr. Faustus, Antivenom, Amerian Son, Spitfire, Cottonmouth, Vindicator and the A.I.M.
Still working on the sculpt of Master Man and Swarm I started also Malik Tarcel from Nova Corps.
Stay tuned.

byezz

Mandril progress

After painting apart the cloak I attached the two parts an give a first color layer.
Ongoing...

Some paint progress also for Silver Samurai

Mandrill, WIP...

Another wip on a custom 100% made by me, this would be Mandrill.... still need a cloak for him.
Hope you like it.

A.I.M. (2)

I disagree the choice of EM avoiding issues of unnamed characters as memeber of Hydra or A.I.M., watchdogs, The Hand etc..
I think Hydra and A.I.M. become extremely popular between the Marvel Ccomics readers, can't imagine Cap without the Hydra, even appeared in the recent movie from mainscreen. For this reason made my own custom forthe collection of 1 a.I.M. member, many Hydra's (Baron Von Strucker, a group of three Hydras with a stendard and even the one shoot appeared Cassandra Romulis..) and 1 Watchdog's soldier.

Many times though to figure out how realize a member of the Ninja group called The Hand, recently passionating me in my readings of Dare Devil. Maybe in another life..

Satisfied with the numbers of Hydras I made, I still wanted another A.I.M. member at least to stay close to my Modok (customized it in unsuspected times before Eaglemoss deceided to release his acrual wonderful issue, maybe one of the best specials in the official collection).

The idea was to have an A.I.M.er doing something with some stuff, probably a big wooden box with some strange weapon or advanced invention inside...

First I realized the iron shape, already shown in some previous post, dare if you recognize it!
Then sculpted his body, arms, legs and clothes (mixing white and green milliput).
Then prepared the wooden box  (Fimo).
Finally the shoes and gloves (green milliput).

So this night I realized that was impossible for him to take this box in his hands if not by playing a trick using some ropes around the wooden box. I made the ropes with green milliput a bit of magic sculpt (MS doesn't creep easily as milliput tends to do).

The stuff is drying (the stuff under the box is just a temporary bracket to support it whil drying), tomorrow I'll have to separate the box from the figure in order finish the A.I.M. member (corrections and fine grinding). The idea is to paint both separately and after re-join with some Attack drops and a final retouch of paint on the joints.

Hope you like it. Comments welcoma... have a good night!!

Arnim Zola corrected...

Good night bloggers ...as promised I arranged any of the observations received about Arnim Zola. Here is how it is today, I think I'll stop working on Zola for now.

I'm still waiting a final, definitive place for my collection that starts to be too large... counting the originals, the specials and the customs I've more than 400 and it will not be easy to lodge them somewhere without a little "family fight" .... eheheheh!

I started last weekend to work on a A.I.M. soldier, Silver Samurai and dr. Faustus, hope to come back with some picture before I finishing them.... specially A.I.M. is driving me crazy...

bye bye

As promised....

I get that comment about Ezekiel Stane painting.
Mainly the only upgrade possible was to repaint with more brown color. I added some additional shadows, added and a touch of metallic red a some glue yellow spot.
Hope you like it. Here is it:

Last, Arnim Zola is back on the worktable. I already modified with Magic Sculp the camera on the neck, the shirt and the monitor as anticipated. Picture will come soon, after repainting. I'm almost running out of Magic Sculp and this is a serious issue!!

WIP

Back from Hollidays... I hope You all had a pleasent time and a wonderful end of the year, but most important: a excellent beginning!

I get some private comment about Ezekiel Stane and Arnim Zola.

Someone commented that the original Stane costume is more oriented to the brown color, so I agreed to repaint it, this will be made in this week probably. 

One other commented Zola, making some comparison to the Zola realized by Eaglemoss for fun (special Zola... not meant for the collection) more than one year ago. Ok, apart the fact that they are Eaglemoss.... (I mean number one in 90mm figures...) ...I agreed that I can better realize the shirt (shape and color) and the border of the monitor (that is sculpted and not only painted)...

Last comment I received it was a comparison to the Zola from Marvel Legends action Figure. I do not prefear action figures, I love actually the lead ones, but this is just my personal opinion. I have to say that Marvel Legends are quite larger than Eaglemoss ones, so it's easier to scupt in details than working into 80-90 mm.

Both Marvel Legneds and Eaglemoss were lovely painted so I agreed that I shall repaint the whole Zola.... 

stay tuned!

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