Many years ago I built the old Aurora Spider-Man kit as a kid. It was one of the kits that was sold in my mom's yard sale when I was in college. Luckily Polar Light has reissued a larger up-scaled version of the original kit. When I saw it, I grabbed it. I'm not a figure builder, but did my best. The kit is about 90% complete with only the webbing on the costume needing to be done and then a dull coat to tone down the shine on his costume.


The original kit was molded in red and the large clear web background was optional (and solid red). A comic book that doubled as the instruction manual could be placed behind the completed kit to give a 3-D comic book appearance. From what I remember from my Spider-Man lore, the villian is Kraven the Hunter, a Russian big game hunter. From my memory of the original kit, the tapestries under Kraven were a map to some treasure and Spidey's webbing dissolved the ancient cloth. He was none too happy with the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.

Neat quick build that took me all of a rainy weekend.

Sometimes it is good for the soul to do something basic and easy just to see the results and enjoy it Rob. It looks nice... I will have to watch for this kit.

Rob,

I think that your figure is nice painted. As you said, you could use a matt coat on this one. I think that, from the lower picture, it seems like your webbing is too blue. I think that you should use a little more white on this web.

I saw for a time ago, a similar Horizon kit, very nice kit!

I was thinking of getting this one from Andrea Miniatures:



Looks real good, but a bit pricey...

Mario M.

Sabot,
Is that the M1A1 Spiderman or the M1A2 Spiderman? Which version of Spiderman did the Marines use in OIF???



(Great job, by the way. I love those "taking a break from the same old $#@%" builds, too) #:-)

GRAT
FIGURE, WORK, PAINT, ETC ...... IS VERY NICE
ROBERTO

Thanks, I plan on dull coating the entire kit, but have to wait for the red paint to cure so I can do a blackwash to bring out the costume webbing. I was contemplating replacing the kit webbing with some veil or netting, but then it wouldn't have that OOB appeal to it. I will drybush some more white/light grey on the webs.

I've eyeballed that Andrea Miniatures Spider-Man, real nice. I have both of the Horizon vinyl Spider-men, as well as both of the Marvel/ToyBiz Spider-men kits. I was able to save an old MPC Spider-Man kit that my mom didn't sell. The guy who bought my old Aurora kit didn't want it because a fist was missing. Luckily I knew where the fist was and still have the complete kit myself.

This is actually the Spider-Man A-nothing. The Spider-Man A2 was used to police the streets of Baghdad. He looks more like the Andrea Miniatures variant.

Now that's funny... :-)