Sunday, September 25, 2005

Tools: Microman Material Force

The best alternative to the wooden manequin is of course the 18" Super Poseable Spider-man 2 action figure. Eventhough slightly exaggerated in anatomy, with 67 articulation points, it allows you to make just about any pose imaginable.
Since I work at both home and a studio, sometimes I even go to a local book stores or coffee shops to draw, carrying the huge and heavy Spider-man figure would be inconvenient and attracts unwanted attention. I found these Microman Material Force Series.


Here's a photo of the size comparison with my PITT pen and eraser. The female figure is roughly 3-3/4" and the male figures are slightly taller. With 30 points of articulation, they are as poseable as the Spider-man figure except the fingers, but the interchangeable hands are more than made up for lack of finger movements.Male figures comes with 6 set of different hands while female figures comes with 7. Female figures are usually sold with a set of 3 pack, small, medium and large breasts size.
Microman doing Kung-Fu


Some body parts can be taken apart


Here's a photo of hands that came with the figures, and a view from their behind
Highly recommended if you are looking for good manequin.

79 comments:

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It's a crying shame that you can't get them in the uk:(

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You can't? why not?
You can't get them in U.S. Stores either, they used to be just limited release in US. I got mine off eBay, I am sure there are some people ships to UK.

Unknown said...

Did a search at Toys R Us.uk and came up with zilch. Then proceded to search the beloved Ebay.
Found someone who was selling in Japan and bought them less than half an hour after making that post.

These models are really going to help get my proportions fight. Cheers.

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