IRON CYBERMAN - "WHAT? WHO? WHOOO!!!!!"
(BEST VIEWED NIGHTMARISHLY LARGE)
Rather amusingly, Doctor Who and Iron Man were both 'created' in 1963...with Iron Man being a few months 'older' than the Doctor.
Iron Man - First Appearance - Tales of Suspense #39 March 1963
The Doctor - First Appearance - BBC televison 23 November 1963
Tony Stark woke up after a particularly epic night out on the tiles.
As usual, the details were impressively fuzzy around the edges.
He'd ended up crashing a Mecha rave....where robots, cyborgs and other hardwaring machinos partied their nuts and bolts off.
So when the slinky Cyberwoman had oiled up to him and offered him a "Wild upgrade" he'd nodded, winked and staggered after her shiny chrome socketed swivel joints....
It's all wicked fun until someone loses an eye.
And an arm.
And a leg.
And a torso.
And....all that squidgy wetware.
Ah well.
Sooner or later Stark always knew he'd end up full metal jacketed with no soft centre.
He wasn't quite sure how this was going to play out long term....
But as for now....
RIGHT now....
He knew one thing, for sure.
The bloody Daleks were in for a world of hurt.
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I'm not the first or last person to notice that the new Doctor Who Cybermen design is rather similar to Iron Man's armour.
So, always up for a silly custom modification or new scratchbuilt design I thought I'd follow the thought through to its logical conclusion.
(As if logic and I are on speaking terms!)
Anyway, I popped down to one of our local pop culture shops, Minotaur, and picked up a Cyberman toy....
I used Procreate epoxy to modify the Cyberman action figure's faceplate to resemble a typical Iron Man visor and the chestplate insignia became Stark's signature uni-beam emitter.
The re-paint took a bit of planning, but I think makes the point.
The set is simply a few junked printed circuit boards (I've been waiting for the right opportunity to use 'em!), and a couple of tricked up torch bodies.
(Thanks Eddy, and Callum for the extra materials!)
Not up on Doctor Who or Cybermen?
Here y'go.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberman
IRON CYBERMAN - "WHAT? WHO? WHOOO!!!!!"
(BEST VIEWED NIGHTMARISHLY LARGE)
Rather amusingly, Doctor Who and Iron Man were both 'created' in 1963...with Iron Man being a few months 'older' than the Doctor.
Iron Man - First Appearance - Tales of Suspense #39 March 1963
The Doctor - First Appearance - BBC televison 23 November 1963
Tony Stark woke up after a particularly epic night out on the tiles.
As usual, the details were impressively fuzzy around the edges.
He'd ended up crashing a Mecha rave....where robots, cyborgs and other hardwaring machinos partied their nuts and bolts off.
So when the slinky Cyberwoman had oiled up to him and offered him a "Wild upgrade" he'd nodded, winked and staggered after her shiny chrome socketed swivel joints....
It's all wicked fun until someone loses an eye.
And an arm.
And a leg.
And a torso.
And....all that squidgy wetware.
Ah well.
Sooner or later Stark always knew he'd end up full metal jacketed with no soft centre.
He wasn't quite sure how this was going to play out long term....
But as for now....
RIGHT now....
He knew one thing, for sure.
The bloody Daleks were in for a world of hurt.
-----------------------------------------------------
I'm not the first or last person to notice that the new Doctor Who Cybermen design is rather similar to Iron Man's armour.
So, always up for a silly custom modification or new scratchbuilt design I thought I'd follow the thought through to its logical conclusion.
(As if logic and I are on speaking terms!)
Anyway, I popped down to one of our local pop culture shops, Minotaur, and picked up a Cyberman toy....
I used Procreate epoxy to modify the Cyberman action figure's faceplate to resemble a typical Iron Man visor and the chestplate insignia became Stark's signature uni-beam emitter.
The re-paint took a bit of planning, but I think makes the point.
The set is simply a few junked printed circuit boards (I've been waiting for the right opportunity to use 'em!), and a couple of tricked up torch bodies.
(Thanks Eddy, and Callum for the extra materials!)
Not up on Doctor Who or Cybermen?
Here y'go.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberman