"Elseworlds" is a series of comic books by DC Comics were "heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places - some that have existed, and others that can't, couldn't or shouldn't exist. The result is stories that make characters who are as familiar as yesterday seem as fresh as tomorrow."
More info about the concept are available on the related Wikipedia article (look here) while a list of the related items (comic books and action figures) is available on the DC Comics site (look here).
For what I know the series never covered the age of the Roman Empire so the basic idea was to render the Superman character as a Roman Emperor. The "S" on the chest
is not the standard (modern) one but the one used on 1940 by Fleischer Studios (see the related cover below).
The piece is not finished yet, the printed SPQR logo on the base should be sculpted and there are still a lot of small adjustments to do but I think the following pics will give you an idea. Making as solid items like this is always a source of big troubles (above all regarding the casting process) so I decided to sculpt it as hollow. The piece has been built by layers over a blob of Sculpey (removed at the end of the process). The torso is the only part I cutted, all the remaining parts breakdown has been achieved building (modelling) the female part over the already set male counterpart using transparent tape and silicone oil as a separator.
Will post more pics once finished the piece.
the parts breakdown
and the Fleischer Studios cover used as reference for the "S"
More info about the concept are available on the related Wikipedia article (look here) while a list of the related items (comic books and action figures) is available on the DC Comics site (look here).
For what I know the series never covered the age of the Roman Empire so the basic idea was to render the Superman character as a Roman Emperor. The "S" on the chest
is not the standard (modern) one but the one used on 1940 by Fleischer Studios (see the related cover below).
The piece is not finished yet, the printed SPQR logo on the base should be sculpted and there are still a lot of small adjustments to do but I think the following pics will give you an idea. Making as solid items like this is always a source of big troubles (above all regarding the casting process) so I decided to sculpt it as hollow. The piece has been built by layers over a blob of Sculpey (removed at the end of the process). The torso is the only part I cutted, all the remaining parts breakdown has been achieved building (modelling) the female part over the already set male counterpart using transparent tape and silicone oil as a separator.
Will post more pics once finished the piece.
the parts breakdown
and the Fleischer Studios cover used as reference for the "S"
