WIP: Wonder Man

Avengers Month continues with a WIP of Wonder Man in his classic safari jacket. But there’s no rocket belt, so this is properly the new look he’s got in Mighty Avengers. Hey, Simon, where’s the rocket belt? Guy’s working for Tony Stark, on the world’s premier super team, with the largest budget, I think they can spring for a rocket belt. Instead he’s running around and jumping through Moloids. Well, that was cool.

I looked at Norm’s recipe a few months ago and had an epiphany… after seeing a bunch of puffy fabric jackets that didn’t really work for me, the use of Luke Cage was a breakthrough. The arms are great, the legs have the right mass, and he’s already got a collar! But I used sculpting compound to make more of a jackety thing in front. The boots were from the Marvel Legends Wonder Man, shortened because he got some weird proportions in the legs. The head is from Street Fighter Guile, and I’m not sold on it or the hair I sculpted. Nice do, Super-Elvis. Actually, Simon Williams is kind of a super-Elvis. Which means that the Grim Reaper is his Colonel Tom Parker.
Damn. For the first time ever I want to do a Grim Reaper custom.

The picture above was taken with my phone, so the quality ain’t there, but it’s just a WIP. There’s some red paint on because I got excited and started painting before I could take the WIP shot. I’m switching to the phone so I take more WIP shots, but it’s still an uphill battle when I’m really working.