XM Studios Punisher

[AC_808]

Need more pics from different angle.

 

[Iko Iko]

From Kan, thx.

Looks good. I think this face definitely works much better as well.

 

[Grumpy Bear]

 

[ambasah]

I really want this now. he looks awesome.

 

[Pork Chop Express]

Execution looks really good overall but I never specifically associated the Punisher with a motorcycle. Definitely a space hog.

 

[Grumpy Bear]

If you want to be creative you can´t think about space.

 

[Asdf]

Looks good. Bike looks very normal

 

[Grumpy Bear]

 

[El Mule]

Not interested in Puni but I think in terms of sculpt, complexity and details this simply straight up kills the comiquette. Just an entire different level of complexity, if this was part of Gentle Giant's bicycle line people would be claiming Graal already.

 

[lotus000]

I'm not a huge Punisher fan, but this piece looks wonderful. What I'm afraid of with XM is they produce too many stellar pieces causing me to want them all. I need to really start picking and choosing.

 

[ambasah]

Looks good. Bike looks very normal

that is actually what I love about it most. I would have passed if they gave him a "modern" bike. has a pre-order date been set for this? any idea on price?

 

[lotus000]

I ride a motorcycle, and love Wide Fat tires in the rear of a bike. The Motorcycle is very accurate besides having a liquid cooled radiator. Bike of that age normally are air cooled. The Carburetor looks good having that nice open cone to suck in and shape air as it enters the actual carb. Nice touch

 

[Asdf]

Open PO time xm

 

[Punishment1218]

I really wish more and more sculptors would start using a different skull.

 

[3KidCap]

Missed out on Ghost Rider really hope to be able to get this bad*ss.

 

[SLO_MO]

This looks overall pretty amazing but I'm not sold on how weirdly shiny all of clothes are. Is he wearing a leather shirt?

 

[JAWS]

I don't like the Olivetti head on this... Or should I say the Olivetti Neck... It works on the SSC piece because the proportions are correct. On SSC piece The whole body is an Olivetti sculpt. So it works. This piece looks like the Olivetti head was an after though. The body seems to small for the neck and head. Other then that the head is nicely done Olivetti style.

The other head looks to be more proportionately accurate. So its my guess that that was the original sculpt idea. Problem is it suffers from most of XM issues.. Their original head sculpts just are not that good. Everything else is great though.. AS Usual.

 

[El Mule]

Actually, no. The XM version doesn't have the supersized arms but neck size has nothing to do with arms size and everything to do with shoulders and upper back. Neck muscles directly tie to the upper traps, it's the norm for certain athletes, like powerlifters, to have impressive traps and necks but just "standard" big arms, while on the other hand you won't find a single person on Earth with the body and proportions of the Comiquette Punisher. Not even the most gorilla bodybuilder has those masses built like that.

The shoulders and upper back width seen in these pics imho fit the big neck no problem, the only thing that could be changed a bit would be that his sleeves cover too much of his arms and create the illusion of smaller arms. If they went with sleeves that only cover, say, down to half the deltoid (like most Olivetti illustrations) I'm sure it would give the impression of him being much more bulkier and closer to Olivetti's proportions on the rest of the body, but with still a more realistic build.

 

[JAWS]

Actually, no. The XM version doesn't have the supersized arms but neck size has nothing to do with arms size and everything to do with shoulders and upper back. Neck muscles directly tie to the upper traps, it's the norm for certain athletes, like powerlifters, to have impressive traps and necks but just "standard" big arms, while on the other hand you won't find a single person on Earth with the body and proportions of the Comiquette Punisher. Not even the most gorilla bodybuilder has those masses built like that.

The shoulders and upper back width seen in these pics imho fit the big neck no problem, the only thing that could be changed a bit would be that his sleeves cover too much of his arms and create the illusion of smaller arms. If they went with sleeves that only cover, say, down to half the deltoid (like most Olivetti illustrations) I'm sure it would give the impression of him being much more bulkier and closer to Olivetti's proportions on the rest of the body, but with still a more realistic build.

So are they going for realistic or Olivetti? Because imo the comiquette works because it does not try and be realistic it tries to be Olivetti. Everything about this piece is very real looking until you get to that head and neck. Sure the neck might get that big but no face looks like that. Add that onto the fact that the other head does not have that thick of a neck and fits the body better I will stand by my original statement and say that the Olivetti head was an after thought. In fact if you look at his traps they are small also. The shoulder harness adds some size.so again I just don't think this head fits this body sculpt. And if you are going to use a cartoon looking head like olevetti then you should go full Olivetti. But like I said..I think it was an after thought.

 

[JAWS]

Plus cut off those sleeves and those shoulders are smaller then they should be compared to that neck and head imo. So the traps and shoulders are not Olevetti enough. Arms are not Olevetti either. Like I said it just does not fit the rest of the sculpt imo. The other head does. Unfortunately it looks goofy to me. But if people love it and they do then congrats. It will look great on display overall. But this one is screaming for a customer head imo.