Iron Man

[Mossie]

I recentley picked up the Moebius 1/8 Iron Man kit.  It's the Mark III armour from the movie (the Mark 2 is also available) & looks pretty nice in the box.  It's going to be built oob, not built or modified in any way.  I've never built or painted any kind of figure kit before so this is going to be new to me.  I'm not yet proficient with my airbrush, so it's going to be a combination of Citadel Colour metallics & rattlecans.

Box top:



Sprue:



So here I go!

Simon

[Sisko]

I hear the fit is fairly ordinary on this kit. Good Luck!

[Mossie]

I'll soon tell you!

[Mossie]

I haven't been idle on this, Easter got in the way a little bit but otherwise I've been trying to crack on so not much in the way of updates.

I hear the fit is fairly ordinary on this kit. Good Luck!

Sisko, 'ordinary' is a very good way of describing the fit on this kit.  It's not bad, no big gaps or mismatches, but each join is going to need attention & most of them filler.  Most of the parts are split into two so that's a lot of joins to fill. Since it's going to be a metallic finish, that also means I have to polish it up to a high standard, so I'm in this for the long slog.

The way the kit has been produced, you've got to follow the order in the instructions to the letter.  They fit together like a jigsaw puzzle, so you have to put the forearm together for instance, only then can you add the upper arm & hand.  You can't change this order, as the shape of the parts won't let you.  The instructions are a combination of words & pictures, slightly unusual when your used to pictograms, but they make sense after a couple of read throughs.

Here's a pic showing the hands & forearms which gives you an idea of what's going on.  The hands are moulded in one piece (one of the few parts that are) & have a seam line running along them.  Fiddly to remove, but not impossible.  The right hand (actually on the left) has been attended to, the left hand still has the seam, it's not obvious in this pic, but it's there.  The forearms haven't been touched here & it's more obvious what's going on.  The joins have an edge to them & there's also a slight U shaped depression, there's also some detail to contend with, but it's not too bad since it's a large scale (1/8, finished model should be somewhere around 25cm/10" tall).



I've got a fair bit more done since I took this pic, the arms are together & PSR is nearly complete & the lower legs are on their way.  I'll hopefully get some pictures up in the next day or two.

[Sisko]

This kit really shows the massive difference between how Western Sci-Fi Kits and their Japanese counter parts are engineered.

If that kit had been produced by a Japanese company then the seams would be along panel lines or conceled by some other detail part. They really seem to put effort in the engineering tooling.