Cyclops - 90's suit

Bit of a busy week, not only have I been working on the customs, but lately I've been trying my hand at Warhammer 40k, in a few days I'll put up pics of my Librarian in Terminator Armour.

Cyclops has always been one of my favorite X-Men. How cool is it to be able to shoot a ray through the eye of a needle at the other side of a football field. Scott Summers, AKA Cyclops, is one of the few mutants in the Marvel with omega-class powers - those optic blasts have untold power.

I get that Eaglemoss went with the current outfit for Cyclops, the one he uses in Joss Whedon's wonderful stint writing for "Astonishing X-Men", but that uniform was kinda boring. I always loved Cyke's 90's getup, with that Y-shaped suspender and double straps everywhere.

Wonderman was a really good choice to use as a base for this customisation, I haden't realised how similar this character and Cyclops are, almost exact same hair-do and both wear those ruby-red shades. Modern depictions of Cyclops have gone back to the slim figure he had when he was first introduced, but in the 90's they really beefed him up, so Wonderman's muscular physique will be perfect.

It took a lot of Milliput to make all the accessories, pouches, straps, etc. I regretted not setting those thigh straps closer together, I had to paint the space in between and it was a pain in the ass!

Thanks for checking my customs out, feel free to leave a comment!

Archangel

This entry kicks off my new blog, Iropan's Famous Customs! I look forward to sharing all my creations with the community and hearing everyone's comments!

Archangel is one of those examples on how important a character's design is. I only know bits and pieces of his story, and yet he's one of my favorite Marvel characters thanks to that spectacular outfit and that wild combination of blue and hot pink (ahem, magenta).

The original Angel made his comic debut all the way back in the beginning, in the first number of X-Men, in September of '63, as a blonde heart-throb with angel wings. He eventually has his wings mutilated, and is offered a Faustian deal by Apocalypse, who offers to restore his wings if he will become one of his Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Warren accepts and the resulting genetic manipulation tints his skin blue, as well as dramatically changing his outlook on life, to say the least. He gets new wings, and they're not the feathery and fluffy type, but instead new razor-sharp organic metal wings.

I know using the existing Angel figure seems like a no-brainer, but I wanted to try something more original, and take advantage of the very expressive pose of Eaglemoss' Captain Marvel figurine.

This was almost a month of work. A lot of that time went into figuring out how to make the wings. I finally opted to make them out of plastic, since it's lightweight and can be cut to shape with relative ease. For the arm of the wings I used Milliput, which serves to link-up the wings to the figure's shoulders. When shaping the wings I wanted to stay away from that square classic look (it's been done to death) and instead try for something with more shapes and a "metal feathered" look.