The first toon I made in Champions back when it launched was also a take on a COH character. But probably one few of you would have seen.
There was a time, back before the servers were all consolidated in Texas, that there were times on Virtue Server when there was TERRIBLE latency for a few months. In fact it affected the whole East coast. (May have been at least part of the reason for the server consolidation, in fact.)
During that time, my friends and I put together some alternate toons on Infinity server, which was more stable back then.
This was Stalnoy Volk, a power armor hero from Russia.
I was very definitely going for a cross between the tendency of Russian tanks and other equipment to have a "brute force" approach that shows in their lines, and yet show off a bit of the aggressive sleekness that Russian Aerospace designs have. I think I wound up with more of the "tank" than the "fighter" in this design. But I was pretty pleased with it. It's a no-nonsense look. Rather like "War Machine" from Iron Man, you know?
When Champions came out - one of the things I loved about it as compared with COH was the powered armor powers and the look of power armor in general. One of the things I think Champions DID improve on over COH was the way you could construct power armor and robots and really give them real weight and chunkiness. My first attempts at building a good looking character there were a little frustrating at first as I learned how the proportions worked. In the meantime, I knew just what character I could bring over where I wouldn't have to worry about modeling the face, at least at first.
So this is Stalnoy Volk as he first appeared in Champions.
This time a little more of the Russian Fighter Plane showed through with the design. I was really liking this. Especially since you can build yourself to be much more durable than a straight blaster in COH. In CO as power armor, you can actually build yourself as a "Ranged Tank" build. Putting the ARMOR in power armor.
Oh - and actual boot jets with the ports on the bottom of the feet - oh HELL YES.
Later I tweaked the design some more. Added the circular port on the chest when I added "Chest Beam" as a power. (Didn't make sense for there to be something firing from no port). I really like the color too, more of a "gunmetal" grey.
Have I mentioned how utterly cool the power armor weaponry is? Check out that authentic "Itano Circus" Missile spread.
Why yes, the repulsors include a license fee to Stark Industries. But they also have a lifetime warranty!
FIRE EVERYTHING!!!!Later I came up with a specific look tied to his "Tank" mode. This is a heavier armor to reflect more durability in Tank Stance.
And here's a "testing frame" inspired of course by the scene in Iron Man with Tony Stark in the garage testing his boot jets.