[ryukumon]

I believe this is my first post here.

Repaint of the Marvel Universe extremis armor Iron Man with the shield from the vibranium armor mk.VI Iron Man. Straightened up the legs a bit, removed some plastic from the hip joints so he could put his feet together, drilled a hole through his right hand to hold a flag pole. Added a wash and viola. Now I just need to find a better flag.

[jamesmruddy]

Fantastic work there.

[TheSymbiote]

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Originally Posted by ryukumon

I believe this is my first post here.

Repaint of the Marvel Universe extremis armor Iron Man with the shield from the vibranium armor mk.VI Iron Man. Straightened up the legs a bit, removed some plastic from the hip joints so he could put his feet together, drilled a hole through his right hand to hold a flag pole. Added a wash and viola. Now I just need to find a better flag.

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Originally Posted by jamesmruddy

Fantastic work there.

whats with all the new members? Welcome BTW

[rsg]

Wow. Nice. What color wash?

[prowl26]

beautiful, I just picked up Extremis the other day and it has the best paint of all the MU figs I have had so far. How did you straighten up the legs? Did removing the plastic from the legs loosen it much?

[ryukumon]

Thanks for the welcome, all. I'll be sure to post up more customs.

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Originally Posted by rsg

Wow. Nice. What color wash?

I did a wash of black into all the lines but it seems to be pretty subtle in this lighting. I can take some more photos in some white light to show them more clearly, if you'd like.

Prowl, I didn't remove any plastic from the socket itself just a little notch out of the opening to the socket at the bottom on the inside thighs. In fact, when I cut it out it looked like it was suppose to be that way anyway according to the mold separation lines. I also removed all the little bumps on the ball of the joint which frees up movement a lot without loosening the joint, provided that you only remove the bump and don't cut too much into the ball.

On straightening the legs, I taped the side 'pods' down with enough 6mm masking tape to go around the hips and taped the legs together at the lower thigh and upper calves and used a hairdryer to heat the plastic. Then I just let it cool down for the rest of the day and it was good to go.

[prowl26]

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Originally Posted by ryukumon

Thanks for the welcome, all. I'll be sure to post up more customs.



I did a wash of black into all the lines but it seems to be pretty subtle in this lighting. I can take some more photos in some white light to show them more clearly, if you'd like.

Prowl, I didn't remove any plastic from the socket itself just a little notch out of the opening to the socket at the bottom on the inside thighs. In fact, when I cut it out it looked like it was suppose to be that way anyway according to the mold separation lines. I also removed all the little bumps on the ball of the joint which frees up movement a lot without loosening the joint, provided that you only remove the bump and don't cut too much into the ball.

On straightening the legs, I taped the side 'pods' down with enough 6mm masking tape to go around the hips and taped the legs together at the lower thigh and upper calves and used a hairdryer to heat the plastic. Then I just let it cool down for the rest of the day and it was good to go.

gotcha, my Extremis and my SW Thor both have the very stiff hips and I knew that Thor had the bumps so I will look into trimming those off, what did you use, an Exacto knife? As for the legs wow, taping them down before heating really did a great job, I do kind of wish IM wasn't so bowlegged, I may try doing that. Was there any problem with tape residue?

[ryukumon]

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Originally Posted by prowl26

gotcha, my Extremis and my SW Thor both have the very stiff hips and I knew that Thor had the bumps so I will look into trimming those off, what did you use, an Exacto knife? As for the legs wow, taping them down before heating really did a great job, I do kind of wish IM wasn't so bowlegged, I may try doing that. Was there any problem with tape residue?

Yep, just trimmed them off a tiny bit. It really doesn't take much. I preferred taking them off that way than trying to sand them and taking off some of the ball.

That's the exact reason I modded the legs. IM looks like John Wayne had spilled coffee on his pants and just jumped off the horse. >.<

The tape I use is Tamiya masking tape so it has little tack, that helped. If you use something that does leave anything, Goo gone is always your friend.

[eisen]

oh wow, the paintwork on this is so smooth! nice job

[Optimus Scourge]

Awesome!

[Excelsior07]

Damn, you beat me to it. Good job though~

[ryukumon]

Thanks for the comments. I appreciate it.

Excelsior, I look forward to how yours comes out as well.

[Soupy]

Looks fantastic! What paints did you use? Did you airbrush it? If not... how did you get the paint so smooth?

[Bionic Commando]

Excellent paint work!

[ryukumon]

Thanks for the kind words.

Soupy, I use a large variety of paints but the ones I use the most are GSI Creos Mr. Color lacquer paints. But for things like washes or certain details, I'll use whatever I have nearby.

Yes, I do use an airbrush; two, actually. I have a Wave Super airbrush which is very similar to an Iwata HP-C and a Badger 150 airbrush. The Wave is a double action gravity feed for smaller areas and detail work like shadows or highlights and the Badger is a single action siphon feed for my large area paint jobs.

Here are a few more pics in better light. I really appreciate the comments, all.

Oh and I forgot to mention I didn't do a wash on the silver part of the legs. For some reason I just liked it that way.

[eisen]

you know, i wish they made this rather than the incorrectly-colored iron patriot hasbro's putting out

[ryukumon]

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Originally Posted by eisen

you know, i wish they made this rather than the incorrectly-colored iron patriot hasbro's putting out

Same here. I was really kind of disappointed by the upcoming Iron Patriot figure so I started to work on my own 6" Iron Patriot that's based off Granov's Dark Avengers #1 cover. Hopefully it will turn out alright. Lots of major bodywork to be done.

[eisen]

oh yeah! i love how sharp it looks! which 6-incher are you using? something from the first Iron Man movie or IM2?

[ryukumon]

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Originally Posted by eisen

oh yeah! i love how sharp it looks! which 6-incher are you using? something from the first Iron Man movie or IM2?

Originally I was going to use bits of both the IM1 mk.III and the IM2 mk.VI but after some mixing and matching some parts looked awkward and others just didn't work. Now I'm using a mark VI that I'm pretty much stripping down to the basics and then will start building up from there. Modifying the head has been the biggest chore so far considering how different the movie helmet is vs. the Iron Patriot helm. I will be using the shoulder parts from both the mk.III and mk.VI in an interesting sort of fashion that I hope works out as well. We'll see.

I'll be sure to post a WIP in that forum.

[Soupy]

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Originally Posted by ryukumon

Thanks for the kind words.

Soupy, I use a large variety of paints but the ones I use the most are GSI Creos Mr. Color lacquer paints. But for things like washes or certain details, I'll use whatever I have nearby.

Yes, I do use an airbrush; two, actually. I have a Wave Super airbrush which is very similar to an Iwata HP-C and a Badger 150 airbrush. The Wave is a double action gravity feed for smaller areas and detail work like shadows or highlights and the Badger is a single action siphon feed for my large area paint jobs.

Here are a few more pics in better light. I really appreciate the comments, all.

Oh and I forgot to mention I didn't do a wash on the silver part of the legs. For some reason I just liked it that way.

Ah I see. I use an Iwata for my stuff but lately I've been feeling really lazy about the whole clean up and maintenance that comes with using an airbrush so I was hoping you found some secret brush technique to get it so smooth. Also do you get more coverage out of a bottle of Mr Color lacquer based paints? I usually use the water based Tamiya. The only time I've use lacquer is when I decanted my Tamiya spray. Anyways thanks for the reply!

[Johnnyakiba]

wow, this one has been excecuted beatifully. I really enjoy the paint app on this along with the clean over all custom.

Nice work 10/10. (I usually am more brutal!)

[Superquad7]

Welcome to Toyark! This really looks nice! I always like seeing the Capt. A/Iron Man figures and such. You really did it some justice

Keep up the good work

[prowl26]

Man, that second set of pics really show off your skills as a painter. That figures is epic, just epic.