IRONY MAN - THE LAST IRON MAN ON EARTH
(BEST VIEWED APOCALYPTICALLY LARGE)
WINE ENOUGH AT LAST......
Billionaire Industrialist/Inventor Tony Stark had been jolted awake on the morning of the Last Day by the shrill alarm of his private Orbital Satellite Surveillance System.
Cutting right through his hangover the never-before-heard siren instantly shocked him stone cold sober.
There was no time to feel the absolute horror of watching the multiple launch tracks of nuclear tipped ballistic and cruise missiles arcing across the monitor....
No time!
No time to warn anyone....
No time to play the hero one final time....
Only time to leap inside and button up the experimental specialist armour he'd designed and built as an exercise, never really believing he'd ever have to use it.
Time to see how truly Invincible Iron Man really was as the atomic mushrooms sprouted all around him....
As the glowing death winds roared and the fallout shrouded the world Stark screamed within the confines of his Self-Contained Cataclysmic Protection Environment Module.
Armoured against Doomsday itself.
Even with the suit's overpowered shielding it was days before he deemed it safe enough to dig himself out of the collapsed ruins of the Stark International Tower....
Doomsday plus ten.
The Doomsday Armour was more bulldozer than suit. Fit to cut through the rubble of a civilization in search of...
Survivours?
No.
Nothing human at least.
He was the Last Man on Earth.
The Last Iron Man.
And then he'd found....the Last Bottle.
Protected by a fallen building. Covered by pulverised concrete. Unbroken.
For the second wonder, his Giger Counters told him it wasn't 'hot'.
Last call for drinks then.
But....
The Doomsday Armour was radiation-proof, blast-proof, toxin-resistant, and capable of near indefinite self-contained life-support thanks to advanced molecular nanotech recyclers that would have netted him another fortune if there'd been anyone left to file a patent with and sell it to...
All that mind-boggling technology and it had never occurred to him that he might want to simply take a drink from something he'd find lying around.
There was no way to do so without cracking open his helmet and exposing himself to nuclear hell.
There was no one left to hear but he kicked in his external speakers anyway.
"THAT'S NOT FAIR!! THERE WAS WINE ENOUGH AT LAST !!
THERE WAS WINE ENOUGH...AT LAST...."
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Many years ago in the Iron Man Comics they ran a series of whimiscal 'gag' armour designs that Tony Stark scribbled in the wee hours of the morning. A bloke called "The Collector" posted them at the Advanced Iron fan website recently, here:
www.themaxx.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pics/im2.jpg
I remembered thinking the Doomsday Armour was pretty silly when I first saw it but running into it again now, while I'm playing with scratchbuilding I.M figures, thought it too good to pass up.
So, here we go!
The figure is made from FIMO and Supersculpey oven fireable polymer modelling clay, with limited articulation built into the arms and head. The 'bulldozer' section has wheels in the base.
The post-atomic landscape is built from styrofoam with assorted bits of rubble from my spare parts store plus some old rabbit bones and...the skull from the D.C Comics hero, Deadman.
Yes, those are Henry Bemis' broken glasses from the famous Twilight Zone episode Time Enough At Last....and as for the green sign, well, you may know Burt Gummer from the Tremors series of movies.
I decided to weather the armour, especially the 'dozer skirts, quite heavily, for obvious reasons!
IRONY MAN - THE LAST IRON MAN ON EARTH
(BEST VIEWED APOCALYPTICALLY LARGE)
WINE ENOUGH AT LAST......
Billionaire Industrialist/Inventor Tony Stark had been jolted awake on the morning of the Last Day by the shrill alarm of his private Orbital Satellite Surveillance System.
Cutting right through his hangover the never-before-heard siren instantly shocked him stone cold sober.
There was no time to feel the absolute horror of watching the multiple launch tracks of nuclear tipped ballistic and cruise missiles arcing across the monitor....
No time!
No time to warn anyone....
No time to play the hero one final time....
Only time to leap inside and button up the experimental specialist armour he'd designed and built as an exercise, never really believing he'd ever have to use it.
Time to see how truly Invincible Iron Man really was as the atomic mushrooms sprouted all around him....
As the glowing death winds roared and the fallout shrouded the world Stark screamed within the confines of his Self-Contained Cataclysmic Protection Environment Module.
Armoured against Doomsday itself.
Even with the suit's overpowered shielding it was days before he deemed it safe enough to dig himself out of the collapsed ruins of the Stark International Tower....
Doomsday plus ten.
The Doomsday Armour was more bulldozer than suit. Fit to cut through the rubble of a civilization in search of...
Survivours?
No.
Nothing human at least.
He was the Last Man on Earth.
The Last Iron Man.
And then he'd found....the Last Bottle.
Protected by a fallen building. Covered by pulverised concrete. Unbroken.
For the second wonder, his Giger Counters told him it wasn't 'hot'.
Last call for drinks then.
But....
The Doomsday Armour was radiation-proof, blast-proof, toxin-resistant, and capable of near indefinite self-contained life-support thanks to advanced molecular nanotech recyclers that would have netted him another fortune if there'd been anyone left to file a patent with and sell it to...
All that mind-boggling technology and it had never occurred to him that he might want to simply take a drink from something he'd find lying around.
There was no way to do so without cracking open his helmet and exposing himself to nuclear hell.
There was no one left to hear but he kicked in his external speakers anyway.
"THAT'S NOT FAIR!! THERE WAS WINE ENOUGH AT LAST !!
THERE WAS WINE ENOUGH...AT LAST...."
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Many years ago in the Iron Man Comics they ran a series of whimiscal 'gag' armour designs that Tony Stark scribbled in the wee hours of the morning. A bloke called "The Collector" posted them at the Advanced Iron fan website recently, here:
www.themaxx.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pics/im2.jpg
I remembered thinking the Doomsday Armour was pretty silly when I first saw it but running into it again now, while I'm playing with scratchbuilding I.M figures, thought it too good to pass up.
So, here we go!
The figure is made from FIMO and Supersculpey oven fireable polymer modelling clay, with limited articulation built into the arms and head. The 'bulldozer' section has wheels in the base.
The post-atomic landscape is built from styrofoam with assorted bits of rubble from my spare parts store plus some old rabbit bones and...the skull from the D.C Comics hero, Deadman.
Yes, those are Henry Bemis' broken glasses from the famous Twilight Zone episode Time Enough At Last....and as for the green sign, well, you may know Burt Gummer from the Tremors series of movies.
I decided to weather the armour, especially the 'dozer skirts, quite heavily, for obvious reasons!