Yeah, there's not been much of anything beyond No Way Home that got my Marvel interest going... I am surprised there hasn't been an OG Avengers Thor in artisan format teased yet. Black Widow artisan? There are some options to revisit that I think would sell better than another Iron Man paint variant. I like the look of this but certainly not enough to drop the cash for it.
Nailed it.
I wonder if you could get high resolution 3D prints and paint them up? Not sure about your art skills, but might be an option if you're into that sort of thing. 3D printers are pretty cheap now and there are automotive paints that would pass for any iron man color...
I got a resin printer but my painting skills are... sub par, so the thought of colour printing is exciting. But even mono resin printer would be amazing if it used the industrial grade support like the multi material resin printers do. Consumer version of that would elimitate so much cleanup and finishing work (no cuting supports and sanding the nubs they leave behind) not to mention less work setting up the print and supports in the slicer software. Colour resin printing at home would be a game changer but just the industrial style support material would make things 10 times easier.
If you can print them, you can paint them, I believe in you!
Seriously though, if you get a decent airbrush and learn to use masking fluid, you could knock out most of the painting that way. Leave the fine brush detail for just the finishing and you won't drive yourself crazy. My painting skills are pretty good, but at life size scale, so I do wonder how well I'd fare at 1/6 scale...
