Amazon exclusive Slave 1 and Black Series Boba Fett

This is a comparison of the Star Wars Black Series 6" Boba Fett with the Amazon exclusive Slave 1.  The Slave 1 is made for the 3 3/4" scale figures - so it is a little undersized for the 6" Boba.  However it still makes a great display backdrop for him and is a fun vehicle in its own right. 

Marvel Select Ultimate Hulk Review

This figure must have just had a rerelease because I just picked him up at my local comic book store this week.  Overall I am really happy with him and it is nice to have a grey hulk represented on my shelf.

Pros:

Great sculpt – detailed and a good likeness

Good paint – on the rerelease anyway (I know there are some older figures that have a horrible dark grey paint app)

Good size – fits in well in either the Legends or Select scale

Cons

Articulation – It is serviceable and you can get him into several different poses but the lack of knee and elbow joints really hurts him.  Considering he was made back when Select was making figures that were closer to statues his articulation isn’t half bad. 

He feels a tad hollow compared to recent Marvel selects.  It doesn’t feel like he is going to break apart he just feels very light. 

The Black, the White, and the Dirty

Left to Right: Black Series Sandtrooper, Marvel Legends Black Cat, Marvel Select Venom, Marvel Legends Punisher, Marvel Select Anti-Venom, Marvel Legends Bulls-eye 

Spider-man Toys

Brock's reflection

My symbiote collection.  Left to Right: Marvel Select Agent Venom, Marvel Select Venom, Marvel Select ultimate Venom, Marvel Select Anti-Venom, Marvel Legends Carnage

Watch out behind you Spider-man!  It's the Sinister Seven???

Amazing Spider-man #378 Cover with Marvel Legends

 Maximum Carnage was not the best comic crossover in the history of comics but it happens to be the one back in the summer of 1993 that got my 10 year old self into comics.  I still remember this cover sitting on the shelf.  So 21 years later I have reproduced that cover with the new Carnage and spider-man figures from the Marvel Legends Infinite series (and the Marvel Select Venom). 

X-wing Progress (Fall 2013)

Some more progress shots of my x-wing.  3d-printed engines, blaster tips, droid trench pieces, hyperdrive, and nose cone.

X-wing Schematics

I would like to describe how I went about designing my x-wing.

First I found an existing sketchup model from Sketchup's warehouse (it was designed by Abraham Katase). I scaled down to 1/12th scale.  Then I began the time intensive process of building panel thickness onto it.  I then added in an underlying frame and started adding notches that would fit together when the pieces were cut out.

I found a sketchup plugin that would unfold the panels onto a flat surface.  I imported those to autoCAD.  In autoCAD I added panel details and texture.  From there it was a matter of fitting them onto my scraps of plywood and hitting print on the laser.

The original model from Katase.

The modeled frame.

The modeled body.

The wings in the closed position.

The wings in the open position.

The finished model.

The CAD file with all the panels.