Hot Toys Iron Man Fade Issue

[RockEzy]

Happy to report it came out pretty good just giving the rubber abs and neck piece a fresh top coat.

Thanks again Clownz

Looks great Yankee. If you gaved it a silver base coat and with the red paint still fresh you could lightly scrape the red paint with a exacto knife leaving the battle damage scratches.

 

[Y4NK33 PL4N3T]

Not a bad idea. Gundam marker will have to do

 

[RockEzy]

Or that. Lol. I don't have a steady hand

 

[Barrow Roll]

I pulled the inside enough to get my exacto knife in there to cut the rubber plug. Once apart I scraped the remaining rubber from the hole so when I put it back I have enough to plug it back in with epoxy glue. If this makes sense lol.

I have no idea what you're talking about. Are you referring to separating the torso or the neck piece?

 

[Mr.eyes]

^ I think his referring to the neck

 

[RockEzy]

I have no idea what you're talking about. Are you referring to separating the torso or the neck piece?

Torso. The torso is being held by 2 rubber plugs front and back and if you pull on it you may end up tearing the torso.

 

[Username]

I know this is nothing to do with Iron Man, but for those of you who have the Gaia Color 41 paint, i discovered today that it's great to use as blood in custom painting.
I am working on a Jedi that survived Order 66(Not entirely unscathed), and did some facial scarring tests with a dremel and this paint on a HT TTM head, and it looks really good.
Just in case anyone reading this has been looking for a decent paint colour to use for blood.

 

[Darthgothikus]

There's only one sure way to avoid fading. Keep 'em out of the sun.




That's why my IM wear onesies!

 

[Username]

There's only one sure way to avoid fading. Keep 'em out of the sun.




That's why my IM wear onesies!

Lol.
Brilliant.
But if those things were red to begin with, i am afraid they faded...

 

[Darthgothikus]

 

[Username]

BTW, i clicked on the link in your sigline and i love your Tharg! Great figure. Very nicely done.
Also, behold, the power of Gaia Color No.41:

 

[sky_captain]

Barry, my good fellow.

If I was to send you a Mark IV and VI pair of undies, how much would you charge me, to fix them? Hopefully do me a fav, for helping you find that Hawkeye figure, eh? Eh?

You know what you're doing. I don't.

I wouldn't want to post them until after Xmas, but just to get the ball rolling. I'm UK based.

 

[bransen2099]

Sup guys, asked yankee for some advice and he directed me to this thread. After putting some thought and planning I decided to fix the fading on my Mark 4 and if that went well I was gonna do the same for my Mark 3.

And after stripping the paint. Going over with some Tamiya Clear Red to give it some more red color. And BAM

The color is a little off but I like it. My friend let me use her Micron pen to redo the black lines.

The back of the neck faded too but i just put some Clear Red over that and I like it. Not a 100% match but I like the result.

Oh! And to give the gloss I Clear Coated everything I painted with Pledge with Future Shine. Guys Future is awesome

 

[Y4NK33 PL4N3T]

Nice job young Padawan

 

[bransen2099]

Haha thanks sir, I was just looking for other ppls results to just give me some initiative lol

 

[cozzie]

https://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSd6I_AtN-ie1_qWwp6HEZhISX0Tb33Emc8QCiPojFPsqyNMIkw


you might find this a help to do the panel lines, put it on before you do the to cat.. works a treat

 

[bransen2099]

Yeaa, it's hard to get stuff like that out here in Hawaii. I have to fly to another island to get modelling stuff. The micron pen was the easiest and best option at the time

 

[bransen2099]

So for the mark 3, you guys just taped it off or is there a way to separate the abs?

 

[Y4NK33 PL4N3T]

Pulled the limbs off, then taped the torso.

 

[bransen2099]

Thanks yankee i'll be trying this today