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I was trying to get some sort of comparison of the various Mike figures that have the large muscle morphs, when Virus was kind enough to let me check out his muscleman figure.. Here is a pic of the various ones that I have... Musclebound Mike, from Drax Massive Mike by Wrymmaster and Bodybuilder Mike by Virus They are all great figures, and I think that they all have their place in different scenes... The pic above is using the same pose with the default settings for the figures with Catharina's Tomy Texture I think that the propotions are a little off in all three... and as my wife put it, she would like to take parts from each and combine them.... The abdomen of Musclebound mike just seem to taper a little much, while Virus' figure has abs that almost see like a suit. and the calfs seem a little large.... Massive mike is VERY cut, almost angular in a lot of cases. But of course they all can be modified down a litle to make things slightly more realistic. I personally liked how Bodybuilder mike seemed to flow more naturaly with the muscles blending smoothly...

Now, I cut out the other two figures and made some morph modifications to the figure, reduced the calves, and abs... made the neck just a little less thick, and reduced a couple other areas... There are a TON of morphs on this guy, and it made it a little easier because of my medical training, I still had a hard time trying to figure out what muscle was controlled by what dial... At least the majority of the dials mapped directly to the specific muscles. I changed the texture to Syyds Kain texture, and started to at least cover him up a little bit.... My wife still thinks the arms seem overinflated and fake, but I like the look... especially for fantasy characters... I mean, looking at REAL bodybuilders, I think half of them look fake :)) below is the final figure, with just a little post processing...

final image.... all these figures are great, now i just need Boris! Darrin

Very nice comparison. Use Morphmanager to interchange the morphs? Mazak

Ok, color me silly, but I think these guys should have their pants on to disguise the fact that they have no "sex organs."

I combined all 3 this is what I got by doing that.

Also Virus's figure offers a neck fix that has to be seen to belive, It is really fixed!

Whoops missed one, the pictures I posted here are the same figure, made up of ,body builder mike, massive mike,and darkness from the free stuff section,I still have to get the one at DAZ. Not bad what I was able to do combining the morphs, thank goodness for morph manager.

You must have spent quite a while fiddling with all the various morph targets!! but the figure looks great! Darrin

I basicly set out to do a guy with a massive build but make him look lean and compact at the same time, that gave me a direction to take when working with all the morphs from the 3 figues, I alsofound 2 fixes, one was a houlder fix I found n massivemike as seen in the above image, and I also found a neck fix on bodybuilder mike virus's figure. I did wind up having touse all the morphs to get what I wanted, It took me about 4 hours to figure it all out.

I like the definition that Virus's has over the other 2

Yeah virus's has really good abs to0.

Virus's Upper Chest,Neck Fix and Biceps are the Best of the Three.

Awesome comparisons. Looks like I'll have to by Mike. :) Until then.....

...hehehe. Ok I'm feeling silly at the moment but you can't blame poser dork for tring... :)

Here is an image of Boris to get him in the competition. :) I have tried to apply a similar pose for comparison, though there are differences. His musculature can be adjusted downward by various areas. These include upper and lower arms, back, chest, neck (though he doesn't have as much here as the other muscular Mikes), sides, thighs, calves, abs, and some bulges here and there. If you have any questions about him, please let me know.

Beth

Beth, I love the look of boris... especially with all the face morphs.... I definitly will have to get him too at some point :) Darrin

I would appreciate anyone of the cloths (loin cloth) of either figure, or where can I find them or how can I make them?

the one I used was travelers and it can be found at his site... not sure if it was part of a for sale pack though... http://www.morphworld30.com/ there was also at least one, in the freestuff.. Darrin