IRONY MAN- TURNED TURTLE BY AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT
SHELLHEAD MEETS SHELLBACK
(BEST VIEWED FAMILY SIZED, PAN FRIED AND EXTRA CRISPY)
Tony Stark had been itching for a re-match with the Incredible Hulk ever since he'd tooled up his purpose-built "Hulkbuster" heavy duty armour.
It was time for some Iron Mano-o-Gammamano....
Yessiree!
So, late one night, after yet another marathon binge on the booze, he'd poured himself into his most formidable suit yet and blearily set the armour's A.I targeting for "Mean & Green...."
And then passed out even as the mighty exoskeleton's powerful thrusters kicked in to boost him battlewards.
What happened next was a bit of a martial arts blur.....
Like fighting the Mandarin, Black Widow, Captain America, Iron Fist
and the Swordsman all rolled into one whirling, metal butt kicking, weapon of messy destruction wielding threshing machine.
The feral little bastard popped Tony's armoured hood as if the reinforced helmet was merely the cap on a bottle of no-name firewater.
Tony would've gulped if the Hanzo steel ninjaken blades weren't scissoring his throat with their razored edges.
Waitaminute.
What was that smell?
Pizza !?
Tony had an epiphany.
His on-board water tank was, of course, filled with Sam Adams' Boston brewed Utopias beer.
Maybe they could work something out.....
Cowabunga Iron Dude!
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It took me a while to think of an appropriate context in which to deploy the Hulkbuster Iron Man action figure but all it finally took was seeing the new TMNT movie a couple of weeks ago ...
A chance for two of my personal comic icons to meet and beat....
It had to be Leonardo, natch, he's always been My Favourite Mutant.
It's the swords of course. And, well, Leo is just soooo cool. I love that one story where he's ambushed by the whole deadly Foot ninja clan one Christmas and has damn near taken them all down when that mongrel Shredder turns up.....
I didn't have to buy or make a turtle figure, since I still had Leo from the old days, though I did repaint his ninjaken with good silver paint for the blades, gold for the guards and pommel and red and yellow (Irony!) for the hilt wrappings.
The figures are set up on an old aluminium ceiling panel laid on our all purpose light box on my workbench. It's further sidelit with a halogen desk lamp and spotlit selectively with two small torches.
It took a lot of pictures before I got everything more or less the way I wanted it.
But it was worth it in the end...and a whole lot of fun! I could hardly stop chuckling every time I looked into the camera.
I have to wonder though, if the Ooze that created the turtles might not have been Gamma irradiated....quite possible, since the TMNT origin story has the same canister of mutagenic waste that hit them also striking a certain Matt Murdock like character in a homage to Daredevil's own origin....
IRONY MAN- TURNED TURTLE BY AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT
SHELLHEAD MEETS SHELLBACK
(BEST VIEWED FAMILY SIZED, PAN FRIED AND EXTRA CRISPY)
Tony Stark had been itching for a re-match with the Incredible Hulk ever since he'd tooled up his purpose-built "Hulkbuster" heavy duty armour.
It was time for some Iron Mano-o-Gammamano....
Yessiree!
So, late one night, after yet another marathon binge on the booze, he'd poured himself into his most formidable suit yet and blearily set the armour's A.I targeting for "Mean & Green...."
And then passed out even as the mighty exoskeleton's powerful thrusters kicked in to boost him battlewards.
What happened next was a bit of a martial arts blur.....
Like fighting the Mandarin, Black Widow, Captain America, Iron Fist
and the Swordsman all rolled into one whirling, metal butt kicking, weapon of messy destruction wielding threshing machine.
The feral little bastard popped Tony's armoured hood as if the reinforced helmet was merely the cap on a bottle of no-name firewater.
Tony would've gulped if the Hanzo steel ninjaken blades weren't scissoring his throat with their razored edges.
Waitaminute.
What was that smell?
Pizza !?
Tony had an epiphany.
His on-board water tank was, of course, filled with Sam Adams' Boston brewed Utopias beer.
Maybe they could work something out.....
Cowabunga Iron Dude!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It took me a while to think of an appropriate context in which to deploy the Hulkbuster Iron Man action figure but all it finally took was seeing the new TMNT movie a couple of weeks ago ...
A chance for two of my personal comic icons to meet and beat....
It had to be Leonardo, natch, he's always been My Favourite Mutant.
It's the swords of course. And, well, Leo is just soooo cool. I love that one story where he's ambushed by the whole deadly Foot ninja clan one Christmas and has damn near taken them all down when that mongrel Shredder turns up.....
I didn't have to buy or make a turtle figure, since I still had Leo from the old days, though I did repaint his ninjaken with good silver paint for the blades, gold for the guards and pommel and red and yellow (Irony!) for the hilt wrappings.
The figures are set up on an old aluminium ceiling panel laid on our all purpose light box on my workbench. It's further sidelit with a halogen desk lamp and spotlit selectively with two small torches.
It took a lot of pictures before I got everything more or less the way I wanted it.
But it was worth it in the end...and a whole lot of fun! I could hardly stop chuckling every time I looked into the camera.
I have to wonder though, if the Ooze that created the turtles might not have been Gamma irradiated....quite possible, since the TMNT origin story has the same canister of mutagenic waste that hit them also striking a certain Matt Murdock like character in a homage to Daredevil's own origin....