I didn’t preorder this but knew I wanted it the moment I saw it. Just couldn’t justify the price but when I saw it on sale after release, instabuy! Doesn’t disappoint as the sculpt is beautiful and since I have other life size Marvel items, I needed to have Spidey represented. Only thing I’d say is the paint could be a bit cleaner around the fingers on the shooter but that’s never going to matter on a display where it will sit. Very happy to have this!
I posted about this in the Gunpla thread, but this belongs here too. I'm working on the Morstorm/Eastern Model Mk49 Rescue armor from Endgame. Just building the legs tonight, but I am impressed with most of the parts design. The colors are vibrant with the metallic blue and gray, and the bright gold coated parts. The parts are on undergate sprues, which is supposed to mean less visible nub marks. Just one problem to work through is masking over the nub marks on the gold since it's a coating over dull yellow plastic. Save for a few points, it is nearly seamless so far. At the same time, this kit impressed me enough to look into getting more of the Morstorm/Eastern Model Iron Man kits. So I went ahead and preordered the Mk50 Suit.
Whole pile of Iron Man kits from Morstorm / Eastern Model (boy it's hard to keep track of these company names) shown off at Wonder Festival, along with an awesome-looking Endgame Thanos! https://www.taghobby.com/archives/542144 Thanos is obviously an early prototype, since the arms don't have articulation yet, but look at all the Infinity & Nano Gauntlet options! I've been underwhelmed by all the Hasbro armored versions so far; will be keeping an eye on this one.
Thanos has my interest as well. I wonder if these will come pre-painted and just need assembled, or if they need painted too
That's awesome! Looking at the full preview on that TagHobby page, I'm interested in seeing the Mk50 accessory pack in the regular colors and not just in the metal finish type. It looks like they're doing that maintenance rig for the Mk3 from Tony's first sortie as a static display like those bust kits. I'm not as interested in the Mk46 but I like the Mk47, and I'll gladly take the War Machine and Mk 3 through 5. I've always been a fan of Tony's more realistic, engineered armors before the jump to Wakandan inspired Nanotech. Place your bets there will be a metallic chrome version of that Mk2 armor. The only one missing that I'm interested in is the Mk7. I'm curious too, especially with the Infinity Gauntlet. I'm willing to bet with his size, they'll put an LED module in the glove and make the stones in clear plastic... at least I hope so. Seeing as he comes with the Nano Gauntlet, I'm curious if they'll include one for Iron Man Mk85. I know from sorting through the clear parts that Rescue's Arc Reactor and eyes are coated in pearl white coating that will glow when the LEDs are activated. You can see in @Mercutio 's post that they're making a "Metal Finish" version of the other armors, same as they did with Mk85. The kits are roughly the same, and they achieve the clean finish with undergate sprues like Bandai does with kits that get chrome plated. I'm content with the regular versions because they still use metallic injection on the main body, and use a matte metallic coating on the gold parts that just need their nub marks masked over. Aside from this kind of cosmetic repair work, I will say there is a need for paint especially on Rescue's arms. Behold her sticker sheet. This is just for the arms, with a few bits for her hips and shoulders. Here's the bicep to show how many stickers are needed for this alone. I've primed everything I need to paint, and mixed a batch of gold paint. My mix is a concoction of Testors Model Master acrylic. I call it "MCAu" ...get it? I'm being conservative with how much paint I use, so everything is rationed in pipetes. I started with Brass, and added the two other paints to modify it. The "PS Gold" is something I made for Gunpla, I call it "Plastic Syndrome Gold" because I made it for matching Bandai' injection molded gold from the Real Grade Astray Gold Frame Amatsu. It's really nothing more than Gold and Turn Signal Amber mixed together in a 1/1 ratio. I've finished the legs, and just need to complete some detail painting on the feet. I'm painting in the gapped panel lines with my dark silver mix I showed in my previous post. You can see it up the thighs in this picture but I didn't take a picture from the back of the legs yet to show the lines on the calf area. There will be more of these painted lines on the gaps in the feet as well. I'm having to use sample photos of the Hot Toys figure as a reference for any other paint work I want to do since there's hardly any pictures of this armor in a better lit environment. I think there are running lights that I need to paint in too but I can't tell. Anybody got any better photos I could look over?
Hope nobody minds me spamming the thread with progress updates, but this kit is coming together pretty well. A few self inflicted delays aside. More on that in a few paragraphs... Working on Rescue's waist, I made the mistake of using my diamond rotary bits on the scissor joints for the hips' ball socket stems. This caused them to sag and swing more loose than I wanted. To be fair, I had to do this on the ankle parts because they had almost Zero tolerance to connect and move. I thought since those parts were like that, I assumed the hips would be too tight but I was wrong. I had to wait a couple of hours to let some Mr Cement Deluxe dry on the parts to build back what I scratched away. There is still some looseness to deal with, but when the legs are firmly set in the hip socket, they hold their position well enough. Here's a shot from the rear... *sigh my pictures in this post makes this seem dirtier than it actually is..* .. showing the details I painted into the widening panel gaps, as well as the details in the treads of the boots. Back on the front, I painted in those edges on the pelvis with my dark silver mix, and the two gold points wrapping around is my paint mix I showed earlier. Seeing first hand how my mix turned out made me rethink a few things so I decided to strip the primer I applied on the arm parts I had shown earlier. I want to build the arms properly; cementing them together so I could fill in and close the seams on the space around the elbows. It's one of the only other areas on the kit with noticeable seams. At the same time, the forearms fit together along the contours of where the armor's color separation would be down to the wrist. While that happened, I've gotten the shoulder parts started and begun working my way into the torso. This is where I'm starting to paint things freehand on the panel lined edges. These silver and gold lines don't exist on the actual suit but I got the idea from looking at the other Iron Man armors and thought it would look better this way. The same goes for the collar piece. The gold edge just seemed like a natural transition of the gold trim coming up the stomach. Adding the silver around the neckline is more in keeping with the exposed underlayer throughout the rest of the kit. In the meantime, I'm preparing for the kit's light up gimmick. As all of these kits have LEDs but I need to get the right size battery, SR521SW, because Rescue needs four of them. I bought some decent ones cheap through Amazon since I don't feel like trekking into town for something I doubt I can get, especially in the number I need for the Mk49 and Mk85, and will need again for the Mk50 I currently have preordered. Anyway thanks to Amazon Prime, I should have them by Tuesday at the earliest.
The arms are almost finished, save for the gauntlets and hands. I set the elbow pads on after taking these pictures and already I'm thinking of adding some color to the blunt spikes on them... I'll get around to that. I worked on getting the backpack unit done and getting into the torso now that my SR521SW batteries came in the mail. I wanted to put a coat of my dark silver mix on the undersides of the wing flaps because leaving them unpainted would look toyetic and tacky. The gold I added to the spine and tips of the intermediate flaps blends in with the outer shell pretty well. I never realized how many moving parts there were to this. To me, this looks sort of like the Falcon's flight pack but almost like a ladybug's shell. That could just be my imagination around the unified costume design aesthetic of the latter MCU. Last bit of work for the night was cleaning up my paint on the arms and doing some selective panel lining to mostly the engraves lines. I want to keep the edges clean where the gold paint and blue meet. One thing that kind of bothers me is how loose the shoulder to bicep connection is, and the extending forearms (for expanding the elbow joints to expose the double jointed feature). Extending the forearm keep disconnecting the shoulder, even while reconnecting either of them.
The Rescue armor continues, I finished the arms yesterday and am working my way through the hands. The hands are pretrimmed and individually bagged with aurora lens stickers for the palm repulsors. I spent the previous night just sanding them down since they were covered in mold flashing. Painting the joints between the fingers, I have to contend with shallow, fading detail lines. Front and back. That's sign language for "I'm no stranger to repetition.." I think. Then I had an idea after looking at the different armors, and had one more idea. At first I'm like "I'll just detail the joints, nothing more.." but it becomes "ah man, what I am doing now???!" .... and I end up giving Pepper some golden brass knuckles. First coat of paint applied tonight, and I will finish it next time. With those drying it's back to work on the torso. After tonight, I have the majority of the torso's sub-assemblies finished but I still need to put the chest and LED unit together. My focus tonight was spent on the midsection and the breast plates. I decided to add more color, making the spine gold and filling the underlying layers in with silver. The silver fills in the blank gaps between the armor panels and the gold paint actually lines up with the gold coated parts. From the back, the spine shines nicely. The neck and collar piece are done now too. The extra gold trim on the shoulders was a last minute impulse, but I loke how it fits.
FINAL POST!! *At least for now... I want to get back to a Gunpla project that I've been sitting on for too long. I don't feel like working on the Death Blossom Funnels (not their real name, I know but it's what I call them) right now, and focused on soley the Mk49. I will come back around to these, most likely when I work on the Mk85. I'm also not venturing to work on the metal rod of the display base because for some reason the clip that holds the model on it is too loose. The hands are finished. It was a process grind of painting the gold knuckles, accent washing them to fill in the details, wiping off the excess stains, and touching up the silver and gold paint. Setting in the Repulsor lenses was a comical juggling act. Trying to slide them off the adhesive film and accidentally flipping them over onto my desk, picking them up and losing them again, and scrambling to find them stuck to my finger tips. The same thing happens when I use aurora lenses on Gunpla, but they're set in place and I made sure they were secure with a dab of Tamiya cement. I painted over them with a mix of Clear Blue and Gloss Clear Coat, a technique I use for brightening clear colors otherwise they'd be a much stronger blue tone than this. I did it for the Arc Reactor and eyes so that when the LED units are turned off, there is still a colored 'glow' to them rather than the opaque, milky white as they were precoated. After watching the Rescue appearance in the movie a few more times, I used this to also paint in some 'running lights' on the legs and chest. Speaking of the LEDS... it's the moment of truth. The chest unit needs to be screwed into the chest panel, and there's a bit of wrestling to get the parts to line up and connected. I was afraid the batteries for the LED would have an issue for changing them out, but they're actually in a place that allows them to be removed without completely disassembling the kit. *You just have to disarticulate the top half of the body from the midsection to do so. It's not as intense with the lights on, but my paint work has nothing to do with that. The triangle piece at the center of the collar is the button to activate the LED. This is fine but in contrast to the helmet, which needs the scalp removed to activate its LED. Anyone who's seen my Gunpla work knows I save the heads for last. The helmet was the last thing to do and pretty much the only part of the kit that didn't take long to detail paint and build. Just some silver around the eyeline and panel gaps. Fitting the LED was a lopsided affair, it has grooves that lock it in place that wouldn't line up so I had to do some minor scribing to clear the space. "It's fine actually, your mom never wears anything I buy her..." Now save for a topcoat, the special anniversary present is finished! I'm very impressed with this kit and how it can look even as an out of the box build or with the extensive paint work it deserves. Elegant, curved in the right places, and the color separation is phenomenal. The gold coated parts are really nice and almost every sprue point disappears so you would never see where they were clipped from the runners. I still have some looseness to contend with in the hip joints, but that's mostly my fault for sanding them. I tightened them up again with some Pledge Floor Gloss and they're holding well enough now. As I've repeated myself enough, I am now really looking forward to seeing what comes next in the line.
Local sight in Korea, they guy said they were sentinel, I'm not sure prices seemed to good to be true if they are
Might be a full circle kind of thing, Phil Ramirez works on some of Mondo’s 1/6 scale figures and he used to work on the Toy Biz Marvel Legends line.
LOL the exclusive packaging! Mondo 1/6th Scale X-Men Animated Wolverine & SDCC Exclusives - The Toyark - News
I have the MAFEX Wolverine but the Mondo figure is now on my radar. That's the Wolverine I grew up with and it'd ordinarily be an instant buy but I'm not sure how it translates to 1:6, especially at $200+.
Just got the Sentinel Miles Morales from Gamestop. I absolutely love this thing! So many accessories and the articulation is incredible. This thing even has different shoelace options. Love the "little guy" scale with my other figures. Highly recommended!