nate_studio

Awesome stuff! the second shot is my favorite

Great set of shots! I love the last one, though care to explain why Wolverine thought it was necessary to take his shirt off?

Fantastic sets of pics Nate. Those poor sentinels.

Great Shots, nate_studio.

Thanks everyone!

As for Wolverine ending up shirtless... There was an episode of the 90s X-Men cartoon where Wolverine and Gambit get locked in a dark mine or something fighting a ton of sentinels and by the time the battle is over, Wolvie's shirt has been destroyed... for some reason. That's what I was going for. Because I love the 90s

I've been trying to do some more 'vs' shots lately

X-Men vs sentinels

Glad you liked my Scorpion pics!

Now to really join the thread by finally having a photoshoot with Black Widow

Oh man, I've been away for a while and there have been some great photos since I last checked. This is definitely my favorite thread.

Here is my latest photo shoot to contribute: Scorpion

I love this thread! Keep the pics and comics coming, everyone

Longshot

Just playing around with Colossus and his little buddy

Just another Havok head swap suggestion:

I used Peter Parker from the Amazing Spider-man wave. He doesn't have blue eyes, but at least they're just black instead of being brown or green. I also liked how his face matched up with the mask and that his expression was similar to his big brother's

Havok

living in his big brother's shadow

the summers bros

so awesome to see these guys in the Big Apple!

Here's my Rhino shots...

Found them at the TRU by the Dayton Mall in SW Ohio today.

Great to see somebody else from the Dayton area here on the boards. Guess that makes you competition now, though

I picked up the Rhino/Iron Man set but I couldn't find Havok/Storm...

Rhino is amazing, though - Great use of the bulked up pieces!

Great shots, guys. Love all the group pics, Max.

Daredevil facing off against some Hand ninja

I love the new Dr Doom from the MvC3 wave

You guys have been killing it while I've been away.

Can't wait for the return of Shots!

Akuma

Awesome pics guys - I guess I really need to get some backgrounds if I'm going to keep up.

In the meantime, I'll stick with my white backdrop.

RYU

HADOKEN!

It's too bad his hands can't get any closer together...

Happy birthday, Ivan. Thanks for creating/maintaining the database! I still reference it all the time.

I always love seeing everyone's pics - even TM2's...

some MODOK love

Man, some great pics in here the last few days. Mmao, that Danger Room is uncanny! But seriously that thing is friggin amazing. I'm also jealous of everyone who has an AIM trooper. They came out during my I'll-only-buy-X-Men-mates-to-try-and-save-on-money phase, so I'm still missing out.

Well, here's my newest contribution to the thread: Kingpin

MODOK, Ryu and Akuma coming throughout the week.

Thanks for the kind words about my Daredevil pics.

That's a great Danger Room set up, MMao! What did you use for everything?

I had to pay a little extra to get a Crossbones, but I love the way this dude looks.

I love that Black Widow! I need to get one of those hair pieces. The heralds pic is awesome too, Geohound.

Here are some of my pics of Daredevil

I think he's just embarrassed by the thought of most the 90s X-Men uniforms.

Embarrassed, yes... but it's because he's hanging out with Jubilee.

And it looks like we've all been taking Punisher pictures lately...

Thanks, guys! I'm glad people aren't totally sick of Spidey.

This one is from a couple months ago. I'll have some newer ones later this week

I suspect over 90% of the people on this board are graphic designers of one sort or another...

The best decision I made a couple years ago was to remove the Adobe Creative Suite from my home computer. It always seemed friends and family would hear "artist" or "designer" and immediately followed it up with " I have this great idea! Can you design/draw XXXXXXX for me?" Even at HALF freelance rate, they still balked at the cost for my time.

Now I can simply say, "Sorry, I don't have any of that installed anymore."

If anyone here is a dedicated freelance designer, you have my respect and admiration. Because at times, it was a thankless job, with copius amounts of stress.

I'm scaling back on my freelance work for a lot of these reasons. Everybody wants something from you and a lot of people don't follow through with payment...

My advice, though, is to find someone on the board or in real life that you can communicate with to do your design work rather than using a 99 Designs or similar service.

1- communication is key to getting the results you want and keeping your designer happy

2- those design contests aren't good for graphic designers or clients. Designers submitting work are offering up things they know might not get chosen and they might not get paid for, so it's generally not the highest quality work

Just my two cents. Good luck with your project!

more spider-man

spidey sense tingling

I couldn't help myself... I was at TRU over the weekend looking for minimates when I walked by the new TMNT display. Long story short, I bought the four turtles, Shredder, a foot soldier and Kraang. I really like the designs for the turtles and the other characters are starting to grow on me. Anyone else buy these yet?

Wow. Everything shown is amazing.

I really thought TRU Fantastic Four was going to be my definitive versions of Reed and Sue, but wave 48 has changed that. I love all of the new parts and pieces to show their powers and abilities! I still can't wait for Venom, wave 47 or Alpha Flight.

I can't believe how awesome Thundercats look. I didn't watch the cartoon growing up, so I had planned on skipping these... but it might be hard to pass them up.

Battle Beasts look fantastic, but I really try to stick with just Marvel (emphasis on try). Still, some really impressive designs.

Walking Dead doesn't really interest me, but they look good.

Tekken X Street Fighter look great and will hopefully lead to some new parts for Marvel characters. I may grab a few SF mates to go with the ones I'll get in MvC3.

Wave 50 is a mixed bag. It was a great opportunity and I'm glad Zach gave us the chance to pick the characters, I'm just not sure we picked the best characters. I'll grab a Zemo for sure, though.

I think that's everything. There was so much awesome stuff to look at. Thanks to everyone who reported on the DST panel and took pics of the display