(MOC) Iron Man

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After a complete fail of a first go at a sculptural Iron Man MOC (don't go looking for it), I decided that this time I was going to build one that was at least MOST of the character, and not just a disembodied arm. It turned out to be a smart move.

This was surprisingly quick to design; it took about an hour, and then intermittent fine-tuning over the next few days while working on other MOCs. The model is actually relatively simple. It's essentially a studs-up body with some SNOT parts built in, then some armor plates and the arms added on. The head is slightly more complex. It uses studs-up, studs-to-the-side, and studs-out building techniques. The model then sits on a 6x6 webbed radar dish element that's used as a base. Finally, there is a single 1x1 tile that's placed upside-down above the Arc Reactor to fill in some space.

All said and done, I feel like this is one of the better MOCs I've done. It's not overly complex, except where it's necessary for the shaping, and it looks pretty good in my opinion.

I'm working on building a similar model of War Machine, so look out for that soon.

-InvisibleTimmy