I've got the Mark 43 armour but I never got any of the earlier Iron Man releases. That always bugged me as I've always been a huge Iron Man fan since I was a kid. I decided to fix that by getting the Battle Damaged Mark VII. I figured there'd be some symmetry in that by having a release from both Avengers films.
I knew the head sculpt looked average (scratch that, terrible
) so in advance I went to eBay and scored a 1/4 scale Stark head sculpt.
Both the head sculpt and figure arrived yesterday and I went straight to work. I ditched the original head, then silver dry brushed all of the armour, followed that up with brushing black shoe polish over the suit, gave it a light scourer, did the lightest of light sprays of silver and metallic grey spray paint coats for a dusty look and rounded it off with some light flat clear coat. After that it was just a matter of putting the new head on and bam, one awesome looking figure! All up, it cost 1/5th of what a 1/4 Hot Toys goes for so I'm pretty damned pleased with the result!
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