Hi and welcome back to the hangar!

This is something very different-a commission for my most important client-My Son!

My son Tom and I have spend many a happy hour together watching the Marvel superheroes in movies and on TV. We hang out at Comic Con together and we are both huge fans of Deadpool and Wolverine. So when the movie came out we couldn’t wait to go see at the cinema. Well, it was awesome! Tons of Marvel easter eggs, in jokes, laughs and avengers level action-We had an absolute blast!

Tom told me the was his favourite Marvel movie of all-time and I had for a long time been thinking of a Superhero project that I could make for him. After some months had rolled on, I came across a fantastic 1/10 scale 3D print of Wolverine and that set my mind wondering if I could find a figure of Deadpool in the same scale? Sure enough one came along and in secret, behind the closed doors of my hangar, I set to work…..

Like Wolverine says-Lets’s F***ing Go!

Proof of concept:

When the figures arrived I had an idea of what I wanted to do with them. I mocked up a simple styrofoam display plinth and dry assembled the figures together and then fixed them with supports to stand upright on the display base. What you see below is how it all started.

As the project moved along I busied up the display plinth and the idea came to me to try and emulate a scene from the movie. I tried varying methods to do this , but I soon came to the realisation that I was over-complicating things and I needed to simplify the scene. In the end I decided to have a backdrop of wreckage and dirt on the ground and a wall of graffiti behind the figures.

I wanted to get as close as I could to being movie accurate, so I watched and enjoyed the movie several times over just to get some easter eggs in on the build and really make it pop!

The figures were very nicely detailed which gave way to the need for careful and considerate painting , which made the project all the more enjoyable. Everything was painted in my favourite Tamiya acrylics with the exception of Wolverines claws and Deadpools katana’s-These were painted in Alclad metallics.

Painting the display plinth was super fun as it was mostly marvel movie scene carnage and a series of graffiti painted by me on the back wall. I couldn’t resist including the Marvel and Scale Model Hangar logos in there too! The piece was topped off by the addition of a custom 3d printed movie logo placed at the front of the display.

Here then, is my 1/10 scale Deadpool and Wolverine diorama:

When the day came to present my work to my son ,it was my hope that he would like it, maybe think it was kinda cool. He loved it! Tom had no idea I was doing this and it was a complete surprise. Also he picked up on the subtle easter eggs in the build which made it more impressive. The diorama is now displayed in his room, pride of place among his collection of Marvel memorabilia.

I hope you enjoyed seeing this project and liked it as much as we do. Thanks for visiting my hanger , hope I see you again soon.

Happy Modelling!

Darren.