Here is Nimrod from an angle and a full side shot. The Kilowog base had a lot of musculature in the torso, a "six-pack". The torso was carved smooth with an exacto knife and liquid epoxy was added to smooth and fill in any gaps. This gives Nimrod his smooth look in the torso area. Nimrods arms and upper legs are drawn with musculature, so they were left as is. In this shot you can see the way the hands were reshaped. Also, you can see how even and flat to the arms the liquid epoxy armbands are. The armbands go from the top of the shoulders and end right above the knuckles, as he is drawn. You can see the 3D look of the white head design, with the proper shapes in their proper spots. Was not an easy thing to figure out at first and accomplish and get completely even all the way around. The total raised chest design was made from liquid epoxy that was filed to a smooth finish. The edges of the design were tapered near the shoulders to make it look like it was always a part of the figure, not an obvious added on look like you get using sculpey, The center chest triangle was formed with liquid epoxy, so it is sunk into the chest area, not just "painted" or decoupaged onto a flat sutface. The bands around the tops of his legs were also made with liquid epoxy and filed to a flat level finish. The legs retain their articulation at the top of the legs and the knee joints. The arms retain their articulation at the shoulders and elbows, even though the outside of the elbow pegs are covered completely with liquid epoxy. This should have frozen that peg making the elbow motionless. Keeping the elbow articuation was accomplished by using a very thin styrene sheet-->) to cover the outside pegs. This was glued down on each side of the peg. When the arms were ultimatedly covered with epoxy and krazy glue to form the solid armbands, the elbow joint still moved. The elbow could have been just glued in position because I do not care about articulation. It was just a challenge to accomplish that goal. I turned the hands so the sculpted parts of the arms above and below the wrists matched up. The wrist articulation was then krazy glued and the gap filled with liquid epoxy. I did not care about the "spinning" hand articulation. I wanted the armbands to be solid from the knuckles to the elbows. The arm bands were made even and flat by adding and refiling liquid epoxy in a process that took extra weeks to do, but worth the effort. Some epoxy was added along the arms to meet the armbands. This gives the armbands the look of the same thickness all the way up the arms AND a manufactured look, instead of a look of putty or cut vinyl added to the arms that you can tell was "added on", and really does not belong there.

The full side shot shows how even the armbands are and that they are the same thickness and width all the way up the arms to the styrene strip in his head. The armbands were sculpted to follow the conture and shape of the arms, not just a flat straight line. The shoulder joint moves as well, so you can move the arm and line up the arm with the head and form one solid armband like he is drawn in the show. I wanted his arms to be movable, like a real figure would look, not like a statue with one solid amband. I chose not to make a time displacement armband for Nimrod to wear like I did for Bishop. The time displacement device keeps Nimrod in whatever time period he is in. I did not want it to ruin the look of the arm, so Nimrod has the time displacement device inside his chest, as he did in his first appearance in the cartoon. The half moon center of each boot was formed with liquid epoxy. It did not have to carved in. This gives the boots the same look as they are drawn. The boots also have the same Toy Biz "rounded" boot look at the top as well as the bootline near the bottom of boot. The bootline makes a big difference in making them look like boots instead feet with sculpey lumped on. This shot shows a side view of the head. The back of the head is as on-model as the front. The white face strip goes around the head and has the identicle number of bends as he is drawn. The bends are in the exact spots as they are in the cartoon. It was difficult to bend a solid styrene strip to form this look (I tried but it would not stay in place). I just cut and glued the proper length of styrene between each bend spot in place, and filled the gaps with liquid epoxy which was filed smooth to form each bend in that white strip.

Nimrod from the back. This custom is on-model 360 degrees. I do not see the point of just making sure the front is accurate. To get the 3D look of the center area of his back (see picture of cel below) a lot of liquid epoxy was layered over and over and filed smooth. The look of the spine area was left as the back is not solidly smooth. The liquid epoxy was even layered over his "butt" area like it is in the show. You can see how the upper legbands go around his legs. This shot shows the back of Nimrod's head. Epoxy was used to cover Kilowog's exposed head on both sides of the center white strip. The 2 triangular end pieces on each side of the back of the head were made from a thick, cut to shape, styrene sheet. It was krazy glued in place and is completely flat and parallel to shoulders. This was tough to figure out as well. All the styrene sheet pieces cut to make Nimrods head are all supported underneath by styrene anchored to the underneath scaffolding which was krazy glued in place. The piece that goes across Nimrod's head, shoulder to shoulder, was glued into a slot that was carved into Kilowog's head. This formed the beginning of the "scaffolding". The styrene strips that go from the top of the head to the shoulders, were glued into a slot cut at the top of each shoulder. Complicated engineering. This shot also shows the 3D look of the boots from the back.

Close-up of Nimrod's face. This pic was taken after the glossy paint apps were sealed with my semi-glosscote mixture for a factory made finish. You can see each section of his head cover is a seperate piece of styrene, cut to fit in the jigsaw puzzle of his head covering and krazy glued in place. The center strip stops in the correct spot between the eyes. Kilowog's nose and eyebrow's were cut off. Then the pink nose shape, made from a styrene strip, was put in place. On each side of his mouth, triangular styrene strips were cut and krazy glued in place. Liquid epoxy was added to the jaw area and filed to give him that rectangular jawline. The eyes were painted to exactly match the way they look in a "closeup" shot. In most shots of Nimrod, the white parts of the eyes are drawn like a triangle. For a better look, I painted the 4 sided way they are drawn in the "close-up" face shots. Another "running change" in doing Nimrod was how to get the eyes to be flat. Kilowogs eyes were sculpted with eyeballs. It would have looked awful to paint Nimrod's eye design over a sculpted eye socket. It finally dawned on me to just level----the eye sockets flat with liquid epoxy, problem solved. The mouth area was a particular challenge and was left alone at first, looking like a normal mouth, the way it was sculpted by DC Direct. ONLY when the custom was completed AND photographed, and I saw the pix, did it dawn on me that the mouth just looked awful like it was. He did not look like Nimrod with a Kilowog mouth. So I added liquid epoxy across the top and lower lip area, cut each side with an exacto into the rectangular shape it is now. Then both lips were filed smooth with a thin metal file. This achieved the proper rectangular mouth that Nimrod has when it is closed and completed the custom. The face and white head area is completely even on both sides. If it were not for the black gaps on each side of the face being different sizes, each half would be a mirror image of the other, indistinguishable. Not an easy thing to achieve. Nimrod is also drawn with those black gaps on the sides of his face.

Here are a couple shots of Nimrod with other figures. The top shot is a scale shot of Nimrod next to my custom Bishop. Bishop comes up to the exact spot on Nimrods arm as they both are drawn. Nimrod is THAT tall compared to the regular X-Men characters in the cartoon. I dont see the point of making a figure that is out of scale with the rest of your collection, be it 5 inch or 6 inch figures. The second picture shows Nimrod being attacked by a few X-Men. It also shows that Nimrod is the correct scale in this 5 inch line of figures. You can see that the pink/magenta color of his face photograhed a lot better in these two shots, as I said, the color is really on-model, appearances to the contrary not withstanding. BTW, you can see that the blue color of Bishop's uniform was carefully mixed to match the toy biz paint apps on Wolverine. Not just ANY color of blue.

IS NIMROD ON-MODEL??? Here are comparison shots of my custom with the actual cels from the cartoon. When looking at any custom figure, how can you even TELL if it is accurate or not. In THIS picture, you can see that the body shape is spot-on, in every detail. the size of torso and waist, thickness of upper legs, arm length and shape, shape of "V" design on chest, and height of boots. The head appears a little smaller in the cel, but that is a drawing which changes from cel to cel. I think Nimrod is pretty accurate body wise to the series. You can even see in this shot how my chest design tapers into the shoulder area just like the cel, and how the armbands on my figure's arm's look JUST LIKE how the armbands are drawn in the cel.

In this side by side comparison, you can see the way Nimrod is drawn from the back, and you see the back of the head as well. You can see my custom is almost identicle in every way, right down to the 3D look of the line in the center of the boots. As you can see, the scale of Nimrod to Wolverine is spot-on. My custom Wolverine (the claws) is in the same position as Wolverine is in the cel and is at the same height relative to Nimrod. In this cel, Nimrod's head is drawn larger than in the previous cel, whch resembles my custom more. The detail of my custom's back-of-the-head is more on-model than it is drawn in THIS particular cel. It is identical to the way it is drawn in a close-up shot. So far, so on-model

Finally a side by side of Nimrod's face. As you can see, my custom is pretty much a match for his look. The eyes are perfect, and I managed to achieve a 3D look to the 2D drawing of the face. The angles of the face and mouth have been achieved. I preferred Nimrod's look with his mouth closed instead of opened. Not a bad result for a conversion of one figures head into a totally different look. I think it turned out really great, especially with all the curves this custom took along the way.

Nimrod is the most highly advanced form of Sentinel robot possible for the technology of his native time period and reality to create. Nimrod's strength is unknown, but it may be in the Class 100 range.It is not known from what materials Nimrod was constructed, but his robotic form is highly resistant to damage even by superhuman beings. Nimrod can convert his outward appearance to resemble that of an ordinary human being. Nimrod can also reconstruct himself so as to make improvements in his robotic form and internal systems that will make him a more formidable opponent. Even when smashed to pieces, Nimrod can reintegrate the portions of his body to become whole again. Apparently Nimrod's electronic consciousness can somehow exist independently of his physical body, at least temporarily. It has been speculated that Nimrod has complete control of his component parts down to the molecular level. If so, then Nimrod might have to be reduced to powder in order to be destroyed, and he might even be able to reconstitute his form from that state. Nimrod contains highly advanced computer systems as well as scanning devices that make it possible for him to determine whether a human being is a superhuman or not. Like present-day Sentinels, Nimrod can draw upon devices and systems within his robotic body in order to cope with or neutralize an opponent's superhuman power once he has determined the nature of that power. If there is no pre-existing means within Nimrod of fighting against his opponents superhuman power, it is possible that, if he has sufficient knowledge, Nimrod can devise such a means within himself before his next battle with this opponent. As of yet, not all of Nimrod's built-in weaponry has been observed. It is known, however, that Nimrod can project extraordinarily powerful concussive blasts of energy, as well as bolts of plasma and disintegrator beams. Nimrod can also project magnetic energy that enables him to levitate enormous quantities of iron and steel. Nimrod can create force fields about himself and can teleport himself, but the limitations on this ability are unknown.

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