Posted: 26 July 2008 at 5:04pm | IP Logged | 11
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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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