This week, the highly anticipated Web of Spider-Man expansion set releases, featuring a bunch of new Spidey-related pieces. It’s fitting, then, that this week’s featured mod is of the until-now-most-recent Marvel Universe version of the marquee character:
SPIDER-MAN (Secret Invasion)
It's like a toy found in a "Happy Meal."
In fairness, this isn’t a bad sculpt. It’s inventive, even striking, and certainly outside the norm. It’s also widely derided as the “Happy Meal” Spider-Man for its super-bright colors, slightly oversized feet, head and hands (not dissimilar to this toy for the under-4 set).
Plus it’s cumbersome to fit “McSpidey” here into my over-stuffed clix box.
So here’s what I did:
- Cut Spidey’s feet off the pole with a hobby knife.
- Sawed the pole off the dial base with several knives. It was difficult.
- Colored the cut mark on the dial black with a permanent marker.
- Painted over the red parts of the costume with a heavily watered-down black acrylic paint wash. This would fill in the web design on his outfit with black and slightly darken the too-bright red. I used a Q-tip to sop up excess black paint.
- Using super glue and modeler’s glue, I glued his feet to the dial.
Still a bit silly-looking, but it fits in my box now!
Completed mid-2008, this is a Spider-Man I’m not ashamed to field.
Next Monday: SKRULL INVASION!!!!!!!