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Mech Spotlight Marco de Bon Marco’s Hulkbuster shows its poseability.
My name is Marco De Bon and I am a LEGO MOC builder who loves to create mechs, robots, speedsters, microcities, and sci-fi related stuff. Since I was a kid, I’ve always watched Japanese Super Robots and Real Robots anime, and they are still in my heart. But I am also a big lover of more recent mecha designs. I think my building style is a mixture of all those influences. Being a collector of many figures, models and chogokins, some years ago I tried to create some mechs with LEGO and I found it could work surprisingly well! So, now, this is my favorite hobby, and I like to make original creations as well as mechs inspired by animation or films.
Hulkbuster moc After making a micro LEGO Iron Man, it came natural to me to think about the Hulkbuster project. Once I got the Hulkbuster 76105 set, I started immediately to work on it, so it heavily changed: now it is 280 mm tall, fully articulated and with the micro Iron Man as the pilot (100 mm). A good 70% of the bricks comes from the set, but this Hulkbuster is a completely new mech, not a modded set. Some detail inspiration for the chest, the back and upper legs come from other cool toys like Hot Toys and Threezero figures. The new torso is empty, as it is a real cockpit, so I had to work around it to create good stability. But the key joints are the waist and ankles, and I used a system of multiple ball joints and pistons to support the weight and to have a good range of movement at the same time. Pistons in the knees, instead, have only an aesthetic purpose, as the Technic joint disk (parts 44224-44225) works well alone. My intention was to create a heavy, brutal Hulkbuster with a dynamic touch in his poses.
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