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Thad Studebaker
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Posted: 26 July 2008 at 6:51am | IP Logged | 1 post reply

Just saw these full-size statues on the Bowen Designs site.  They also had Deathlok and a Storm in white costume (bleh!)  I'd better start riding my bike to the store to save up for these two.

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My X-Men shelf is going to get crowded, it would seem!
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Prison Grays Luthor

 

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LOVE that Iron Man!
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Posted: 26 July 2008 at 11:49am | IP Logged | 5 post reply

That Iron Man is NOT a Bowen -- it was sculpted by someone on The Clubhouse sculptor's forums and it has been made available as a resin kit.  I'll look later to see if I can find details on the sculptor and availability of the kit itself.
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Thad Studebaker
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Then somebody at the Bowen Designs website needs to change their solicitation.

http://www.bowendesigns.com/sculptures.asp?id=443&type=

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Paul H. Kupperberg
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I more or less restrict my action figure collecting to Flash, Wonder Woman and Superman figures: Flash and WW because I started when I edited those titles and Superman 'cause, y'know, he's the best freakin' character ever! I've also grouped a bunch together in tribute to another great character from my days at DC, Julius Schwartz.



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Deathlok was also originally a resin kit, but was picked up by bowen
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The Puck bust was originally a commissioned full-size statue, with a few changes.
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I just picked this guy up...




But his left "ear" is bent... any tips on how to fix this?

Also, I stumbled across this image while looking for the above one and
figured you guys would love it...


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What a great story that would be Anthony.

More muggs are a comin'.


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John Bodin
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 Thad Studebaker wrote:

Then somebody at the Bowen Designs website needs to change their solicitation.

http://www.bowendesigns.com/sculptures.asp?id=443&type=

Wow -- you're right!  I guess the sculpt got picked up by Bowen, which is understandable because it IS a great sculpt.  I recall now that Alex Moraes was the sculptor of the piece I saw on The Clubhouse forums, and several kits were sold -- I think Jayco may have been the kit manufacturer . . . still need to do a search on The Clubhouse forums for the kit details, but I know that Alex Moraes posted pics of the sculpt on The Clubhouse, and that a kit was made, and that several people on The Clubhouse have completed paint-ups of the kit . . . and it's IDENTICAL to the Bowen pics you've posted -- and I I know all this because I'm using an image of one of the kits as my desktop at the moment (I'm using the images as a reference for the Iron Man Marvel Figurine conversion I'm working on, and I plan to use the colors as my color guide):


EDITED TO ADD:  Haven't found the original posts from Alex yet, but there is a guy over on The Clubhouse "Members Swap and Sell" section who has a built-up and painted version of the Moraes Iron Man kit for sale -- he's posted pics of three of the kits that he's built (one for himself, and two that were done on commission but one of the commissions fell through so he's offering the built-up kit for sale).  Not sure if you need to be a registered member of the forum to view this section, but here's the link:

http://www.theclubhouse1.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=51678&am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;highlight=moraes+iron


EDITED AGAIN TO ADD:  Here's another post showing another build-up of the Moraes kit:

http://www.theclubhouse1.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=47631&am p;am p;highlight=moraes+iron


EDITED ONE LAST TIME TO ADD:  Here's the original post on The Clubhouse forums announcing the Jayco kit -- unfortunately, the picture links are broken at the moment:

http://www.theclubhouse1.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=46132&am p;highlight=moraes+iron

And here is a link to Alex's site showing the original sculpt:

http://asm-studio.deviantart.com/art/IRON-MAN-CLASSIC-ARMOR- 72209929

And a paint-up of the original:

http://asm-studio.deviantart.com/art/Classic-Iron-Man-Painte d-01-76044769

VERY happy to hear that Bowen has picked this up -- thanks for posting the confirmation. 


Edited by John Bodin on 26 July 2008 at 5:30pm
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