WIP: Triathalon

Avengers Month continues with a WIP of a guy that was totally an Avenger once and I remember it... Triathalon! Triathalon alert! Triathalon is appearing in Avengers: The Initiative! He was in a hallway, and Justice asked him a question! I’m sure that this is the start of something big for Triathalon!

Triathalon is from the second lineup in Kurt Busiek’s Avengers. He’s a comment on Scientology, and an attempt to overhaul the 3-D Man. Which is the sort of thing that’s really important to Busiek.

Triathalon has a costume that’s toned down from the 3-D Man, but it still has a bit of that garishness. But the Marvel Legends line can abide, and provided a selection of parts that hit nearly every color zone. I took an Iron Fist and joined it with Wonder Man legs. The neck and head came from Falcon, who’s hair and mask is an exact match for Triathalon, except for the forehead device.

But here’s the thing: Falcon’s got major Pin-Head disease. It looks bad on him, and it looked horrible once the head was on the larger Iron Fist shoulders. What to do?
What I did was make two vertical cuts in the back of the head, moving forward to just behind the face. I then crammed some modeling compound in there to spread it apart. The face is still pinched, but the head is wider, and it looks better. I’m thinking about popping the head and bisecting it to spread out the face, but there’s a big chance of screwing things up. But outside of facial woes, I expect this to come together really quickly.