MMS Diecast - Iron Man: 1/6th scale Mark III Collectible Figure

[WhoaItsJBot]

The only other armor I have is WM MkII, and it's easier to have a natural human stance with that. Small adjustments to the angle of the torso, how straight or hunched it is, and ankle articulation go a long way.

 

[inigou]

I know realism is not an easy pair with iron man...but common sense is. He has shoes on. Inside of a metal boot. That has a rocket engine in he sole. With some sort of power assist. All surrounded by a metal shield(the outer flared metal). Realism or not...iron man or not...they have to make a choice which way to make it. If they make it with articulation or not. On screen it's not articulated. In real life there's zero chance he has side to side articulation. But somehow both realism and screen accuracy is the wrong argument. Funny how that works. Outside of wanting it, what exactly is the justification for articulation?

Please explain to me how this suit should have articulation in th ankles. We have seen on screen the skeleton of the suit. Here's the toy version. But let's all just agree with th guy that's not me, becuase he's not me. And his argument is...I erred in using realism as a basis. Lol

And these are without the skins. And that outer shield that extends past the ankle joint.

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Nice internals and nice figure, but all what me and people who critique the ankle articulation want is that the figure can be posed in a natural way at least in a museum pose.

Anyway, following your logic, ironman almost wouldn't be able to walk or run, like if he is wearing ski boots. I remember seeing him jumping and fighting very agile in the movie. Without ankle side articulation this would be not possible.

 

[subzro]

I know realism is not an easy pair with iron man...but common sense is. He has shoes on. Inside of a metal boot. That has a rocket engine in he sole. With some sort of power assist. All surrounded by a metal shield(the outer flared metal). Realism or not...iron man or not...they have to make a choice which way to make it. If they make it with articulation or not. On screen it's not articulated. In real life there's zero chance he has side to side articulation. But somehow both realism and screen accuracy is the wrong argument. Funny how that works. Outside of wanting it, what exactly is the justification for articulation?

Please explain to me how this suit should have articulation in th ankles. We have seen on screen the skeleton of the suit. Here's the toy version. But let's all just agree with th guy that's not me, becuase he's not me. And his argument is...I erred in using realism as a basis. Lol

And these are without the skins. And that outer shield that extends past the ankle joint.

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Always loved the amount of detail they put into this suit

 

[Motuxmen]

It can be poses in a natural museum pose. The ankles have zero to do with that

 

[Motuxmen]

The only other armor I have is WM MkII, and it's easier to have a natural human stance with that. Small adjustments to the angle of the torso, how straight or hunched it is, and ankle articulation go a long way.

I never said it didn't make posing easier. Obviously it does. But it doesn't make it "natural". To be natural given the suit design it would work just like it does. Look at those boots and tell me how the way the figure is is incorrect....to be natural is to be realistic, right? I'm not talking about what someone wants. Tut then goes into artistic license. On this suit...the mk3...marvel has shown on screen the bones of it. Especially the lower legs. And the suit designer has stated its limited in movement. It's essentially a painted prototype...his words...so with this suit, over the mk4 or 9 or 43 or war machine...it should have limitations. And again...we have seen the suit was designed not to have ankle articulation.


When I was younger I broke my lower leg and destroyed my ankle. I eventually ended up in this thing called a cam walker. It's like a boot kinda. Anyway, it looks a lot like the au boots at first blush. And the entire point of thing is to eliminate sideways movement of the ankle joint. And it's just some plastic and Velcro straps. The mk2/3 boots have metal and hydraulics and acctuators and all kinds of stuff on top of all that. It's just not going to have that type of movement.

The figure is faithful to both the vision of the suit designer and the screen used props and all that jazz.

 

[WhoaItsJBot]

Yeah yeah, we all get it's faithful to the design of the suit and how a metal suit would behave in real life. In a poseable figure people want ankle and ab articulation, simple as that.

 

[Hologram AI]

Yeah yeah, we all get it's faithful to the design of the suit and how a metal suit would behave in real life. In a poseable figure people want ankle and ab articulation, simple as that.

Yep. Don't care if it follows some realism of a metal suit. The figure feels like a step back in the articulation department compared to all the other recent Iron Man figures in the past year or two and that's all there is to it. Not to mention someone opened up the leg and added ankle articulation himself just by swapping the joint. This whole topic is beating a dead horse though so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[InebriatedGnome]

I never said it didn't make posing easier. Obviously it does. But it doesn't make it "natural". To be natural given the suit design it would work just like it does. Look at those boots and tell me how the way the figure is is incorrect....to be natural is to be realistic, right? I'm not talking about what someone wants. Tut then goes into artistic license. On this suit...the mk3...marvel has shown on screen the bones of it. Especially the lower legs. And the suit designer has stated its limited in movement. It's essentially a painted prototype...his words...so with this suit, over the mk4 or 9 or 43 or war machine...it should have limitations. And again...we have seen the suit was designed not to have ankle articulation.

You make a good point regarding the Mark III being a very early version of the suit, and the photos of the internal design you posted certainly cleared things up. I still personally disagree because I like my figures more poseable, but that's not true for everyone. I do hope we get a classic-looking Iron Man with better articulation at some point, though—maybe in quarter-scale.

This whole topic is beating a dead horse though so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Amen. I'm tapping out now

 

[inigou]

It can be poses in a natural museum pose. The ankles have zero to do with that

Obviously it depends on what you understand as a natural museum pose. I wanted to pose like in the pic I posted before and sorry, is not possible, at least how I expect from a HT 300$ 2015 year iron man. And yes, ankles are very important when you try to pose a figure in a correct and natural way, so "zero to do with that" is not true. Anyway, I sincerely don't understand why you try to defend the figure to death and I will not try to convince you but if customers don't critique the issues of figures and accept defending it as a perfect piece, next releases would have the same errors and this is not good for us, the collectors.

 

[inigou]

Yep. Don't care if it follows some realism of a metal suit. The figure feels like a step back in the articulation department compared to all the other recent Iron Man figures in the past year or two and that's all there is to it. Not to mention someone opened up the leg and added ankle articulation himself just by swapping the joint. This whole topic is beating a dead horse though so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Good post

 

[TommyofAsgard]

iron man is not my favorite but i loved the first movie. so this figure is really appealing to me

 

[Barrow Roll]

Yep. Don't care if it follows some realism of a metal suit. The figure feels like a step back in the articulation department compared to all the other recent Iron Man figures in the past year or two and that's all there is to it. Not to mention someone opened up the leg and added ankle articulation himself just by swapping the joint. This whole topic is beating a dead horse though so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Is there a a larger version of that image? If it's easy to do I'd consider it.

 

[alex1984]

I think I'd like to do that mod too.

 

[Pro Design]

Yep. Don't care if it follows some realism of a metal suit. The figure feels like a step back in the articulation department compared to all the other recent Iron Man figures in the past year or two and that's all there is to it. Not to mention someone opened up the leg and added ankle articulation himself just by swapping the joint. This whole topic is beating a dead horse though so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Do you happen to have the link to that mod where you got it or any more info? I'd be interested in checking out the details of modding that!

 

[Hologram AI]

Did some digging and I found the original images. They're in Chinese but they give you an idea on the mod.

The early set of pictures show how the figure is stock and then the mod itself. The last two photos show how the foot can lay flat on the ground with the figures leg spread out, once the mod is finished.

 

[Pro Design]

Did some digging and I found the original images. They're in Chinese but they give you an idea on the mod.

The early set of pictures show how the figure is stock and then the mod itself. The last two photos show how the foot can lay flat on the ground with the figures leg spread out, once the mod is finished.

Thanks dude!!

 

[Free]

I'm not an engineer or anything so I'm not sure how to interpret what I'm seeing, but did he just remove the pistons from the lower calves? It almost looks like that joint that attaches to the foot already has the hinges required for ankle inversion/eversion but that the movement may simply be hindered by the underlying silver pieces.

 

[Hologram AI]

I'm not an engineer or anything so I'm not sure how to interpret what I'm seeing, but did he just remove the pistons from the lower calves? It almost looks like that joint that attaches to the foot already has the hinges required for ankle inversion/eversion but that the movement may simply be hindered by the underlying silver pieces.

Looks like he did that and dremeled the foot a bit so that it can move around. It seems the foot is just incasing the joint, causing it to not be able to move around at all.

So it looks like he simply tweaked the joint and then shaved off a bit off the foot armor so that the joint has more room to move around in.

 

[Free]

Looks like he did that and dremeled the foot a bit so that it can move around. It seems the foot is just incasing the joint, causing it to not be able to move around at all.

So it looks like he simply tweaked the joint and then shaved off a bit off the foot armor so that the joint has more room to move around in.

Oh gotcha. Didn't even notice he shaved off some of the top of the foot there. Thanks for the clarification.

 

[inigou]

Did some digging and I found the original images. They're in Chinese but they give you an idea on the mod.

The early set of pictures show how the figure is stock and then the mod itself. The last two photos show how the foot can lay flat on the ground with the figures leg spread out, once the mod is finished.

I just made it with mine and result is great!
Finally can be posed properly!!!
Thanks buddy

I this is easy to follow the guide, but just in case, i marked the parts to be cutted and shaved.
Green parts have to be cutted/dremeled with this shape.

dremel by inigou, en Flickr

dremel2 by inigou, en Flickr