"Are you not entertained?!" - custom "Spaniard" Maximus WIP

[Lord Vicious]

As some of you may have noticed, I'm a big Gladiator fan. I'm eagerly awaiting Chris Howes' work on a set of armor for a 'Final fight' Maximus, and I thought; why not try to make all versions of Maximus. So, I started witht the easiest one: the "Spaniard" Maximus, i.e. when he was fighting his first gladiator battles in Zucchabar.

This is a WIP, so I'll update as I make more progress, but feel free to give feedback

Step1:

 

[elvis1976]

WOW this is looking really good so far! I like this version of maximus more than with is armour!
congrats!!!!!

 

[carbo-fation]

This looks really good. I can't wait to see how you'll do the Gladiator version once C. Howes does the armor. Please let us know what items/accessories you'll be using for that figure as I am planning on getting the armor as well. Thanks.

 

[Lord Vicious]

WOW this is looking really good so far! I like this version of maximus more than with is armour!
congrats!!!!!

Thanks mate! More updates soon!

This looks really good. I can't wait to see how you'll do the Gladiator version once C. Howes does the armor. Please let us know what items/accessories you'll be using for that figure as I am planning on getting the armor as well. Thanks.

I can't wait to have a Chris Howes set of Gladiator armor; it's gonna rock!
As for the parts; I posted some info about that in this thread:

https://sideshowcollectors.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43310&page=4

 

[carbo-fation]

Cool. Thanks a lot!

 

[Lord Vicious]

Cool. Thanks a lot!

No problem at all, bro.

 

[-Super Hans-]

looking great so far i think a HT muscular body would work well with this one.

 

[darthCipan]

Looks great! I agree, I prefer this one than an armoured version. The tabbard is made of leather?

 

[Lord Vicious]

looking great so far i think a HT muscular body would work well with this one.

Well, I have a muscular HT Rambo body lying around; I'll try it!

Looks great! I agree, I prefer this one than an armoured version. The tabbard is made of leather?

Thanks, bro! The tabbard is made out of a synthetic, kind of "fake" leather...
Quite easy to do (so far).

 

[lilnoosh1]

wow thats looking good already...are you gonna do anything with the boots, or are the rambo ones pretty similar to the what maximus was wearing?

 

[Lord Vicious]

Didn't have much time this weekend to get anything done, but I did try how a HT muscular body would look:

Looked ok, but now Maximus seemed a bit too beefy. Russel Crowe wasn't that muscular in Gladiatior.
So, I decided I'd try on some rubber arm sleeves I had lying aroud from a Dragon Hong Kong police figure or something. I think it looks great!

Tomorrow I'm going to work on his belt and try to sculpt his shoulder armor... Stay tuned!

 

[Lord Vicious]

wow thats looking good already...are you gonna do anything with the boots, or are the rambo ones pretty similar to the what maximus was wearing?

Thanks mate! I'm glad you like him so far.
Well, the Rambo boots do look similar enough to pull it off; maybe I'll try to customise them in the end if I'm not happy with the overall look, though...

Here's how the 'real' boots look:

 

[-Super Hans-]

those sleeves are just right dude he did look far too beefy with the muscular body

 

[Reinhardt]

that looks outstanding!!! And SoverignStudios is producing some leg sleeves, so you may want to get with Sean to get a pair.

 

[uscmhicks]

yep... that looks perfect , great work.