Custom Stealth Iron Man Bust Progress...

[massf]

I always go to one of Mooncat's posts first to ogle the avatar.......

 

[The Mike]

This thing is looking amazing! I may have to invest in getting a Stealth Iron Man Bust to have this done as well (if you ever do a run....) Excellent work!!!

 

[The ill Jedi]

...sounds like a party at GE's pad

Let me know when

L.A. get togetha !!!!!

Hell yeah!! If Dan'll have us I'll bring some beer and snacks!!

 

[TOE]

Hell yeah!! If Dan'll have us I'll bring some beer and snacks!!

...Like I said, tell me when

 

[lesternessman]

looks like this project is shaping up to be a great recovery...

 

[ghettoenhanced]

Update 8-26:

In the process of color sanding the bust, evening the blue and re-painting the shoulder plates. Really tring to get it nice and smooth before I spray the Future acylic as a sealer/gloss coat. Next comes the mask...

 

[Reinhardt]

looks fantastic!!!

 

[Cocoboloboy]

 

[Grange Wallis]

I can't wait to see the tape off the face and see the contrast of the face with the new colour armour!!! When is the gloss/glaze happing? I want to book a front row seat!

 

[Memnoch]

I really cant wait to see how this comes out. Talk about excitement! :chew

 

[pixletwin]

This is really turning out nice.

 

[p!tu]

 

[ghettoenhanced]

Update 8-31:

It's been too humid to paint so it's a perfect time to take care of something I was going to wait to do.
If I waited till the whole bust was painted I figured I'd end up damaging the work I did.
On to pinning the shoulder plates.

Used Dremmel to cut threaded bolts to length and 5 min. epoxy holds them to shoulder plates:

CAREFULLY AND SLOWLY drilled out bust:

Perfect fit to be glued when it's all painted:

BTW... I stripped the shoulder plates due to some horrible test results I had with Tamiya clear.


Start of a long weekend and I plan on getting close to done by Tuesday.

 

[The ill Jedi]

I heard Dan is legally changing his name to 'Mad Skills'.

 

[Grange Wallis]

Can't wait! Good luck with the next step!

 

[ghettoenhanced]

Update 9-3:

The scorching heat in LA caused my compressor to die on Saturday.


I Got a replacement compressor since I had a warranty and was able to put in a little work on the the chest light.

With a couple of coats of red...

After doing some tests with Future acrylic floor treatment I decided to run with it and although I would have liked to use an automotive clear coat, I'm just not set up to work with urethanes or lacquer based paint right now.


First two coats of Future:

I will be sanding the imperfections all over the bust and shoulder plates all week.
After some brush touch ups here and there, a few more light coats of clear will wrap this up.

Oh yeah... need to do the mask too.

 

[p!tu]

Amazing!!!!!!!

 

[Grange Wallis]

HE DID IT!!! HE DID IT!!! HE DID IT!!! HE DID IT!!!​

Looks great bravo young fella!

 

[The ill Jedi]

 

[urbanfreddy]

LOOKS GREAT