Spidey - Groundwork (2)

OK. . . today, a major hurdle was overcome. . . 

You see, the design of the vignette, is, to put it mildly, incomplete. It was a good preamble. . . but to what? KM's other Spidey offerings--in both scales--are much more contained and effective. This makes you scratch your head and furrow your brow--and that's before you even get to the cab!

Since the Spidey villains are dramatically underrepresented in KM's 70mm line (Green Goblin and Venom), and neither would work given the spatial dynamics of this piece, it was time to put on the thinking cap. . . And what I came up with was the webslinger being confronted by--and evading!-- one of Doc Ock's "tentacles". Otto Octavius and Norman Osborn are Spider-man's arch-enemies, and since the latter would not be a good "fit", the time had come to introduce the former. 

The tentacle is a custom item made from sections of high tin-content lead. There is still quite a bit of final finishing and detailing to be done; BUT, it has been fitted and positioned on the base. In fact, this evening, I got my first sneak preview of the 'assembled' vignette, and to quote John "Hannibal" Smith, "I love it when a plan comes together. . ." 

“When the cost of a hobby exceeds the fun and doesn't attract new people, the game is over.” -
Oscar Koveleski, August 2003