Angrir, The Breaker of Souls

Last year, Marvel launched Fear Itself, its first company-wide crossover/tie-in event since 2008's Secret Invasion. I won't bore you with the details, as they are readily available at the usual sites, but this is another Asgardian crossover event that plays out on planet Earth.

Essentially a reboot of Sin, the Red Skull's daughter, she assumes the guise of Skadi, the Serpent's Herald, upon discovering the Norse goddess's hammer. Subsequently, Sin/Skadi unleash the Serpent, and the remaining seven hammers plummet to Earth. They are found by hero and villain alike, and each one in turn becomes one of the Worthy, the Serpent's warlords.

Ben Grimm, bka The Thing, finds one of the hammers on Yancy St., and, upon lifting it, becomes the Worthy Angrir, The Breaker of Souls.

Angrir is the subject of this somewhat ambitious project. I intend to use the Horizon 1/6th scale vinyl figure of The Thing (HC018, sculpted by Moto Hata) as the base figure, and scratchbuild the relatively few mods to convert it to Angrir. The real challenge will be in the painting. . .

Stay tuned. . . 

The weekend after. . .

Month-end was BRUTAL!!! No other way to describe it. And "the fun" continues, so there will be precious little in the way of progress this weekend.

Having said that, I did spend about an hour at the bench today, concentrating on The Rhino. It is coming together quite nicely, and the putty work is almost done. Most notably, the Rhino is now armed! I finished the main horn this evening, and I think one more session of detailing and finishing will wrap-up the head [02.06.13--DONE!].  The remaining work will primarily involve texturing the skin. . . I am shooting for a priming session over the 4th of July weekend.

As an aside, I've begun to gather the raw materials for a major project in 2014: Angrir, The Breaker of Souls. This will be a conversion of a 1/6th scale figure (~300mm), and it will mark my first venture with vinyl in well over a decade! More to follow. . .