I was lucky enough to pick this chap up in mint condition on eBay for a real bargain price - below retail!!
What an incredible figure, easily the best of the line - the detail and materials are fantastic on the armour, and the sculpt is just awesome.
Despite how good Jaime himself looked, I knew what I wanted to do with this figure from the moment I saw it announced.....
Yep I love him, exactly how I wanted it to look - Tywin looks like the badass he is in this costume, and I repurposed the cape that came with the figure as the red sash Tywin has with this armour - It might not be 100% accurate, but I like how it looks + the hooks of the cape work really well to attach this to the armour and look intentional and purposeful, which makes for a happy accident.
I'm very very tempted to pick up a white horse to recreate his "savior of the city" look.
I also used this figure's (fantastic) Jaime head sculpt and the (incredible looking) Golden hand to update my Kingsguard Jaime look from S1, now he looks like Jaime post his season 3 character development: when he's struggling the most between his newly-reawakened morals and loyalties to his family. In particular I'm thinking of his conversation with Joffrey (just before the little **** finally dies) about him being a 40 year old one handed knight "someone forgot to write down your great deeds".
I swapped the two figure's belts so that Jaime has Oathkeeper and so that his sword is on the correct side (post his amputation). Which gives my updated Tywin Jaime's old sword and belt, which while more generic than Oathkeeper, is still plenty fancy and has a nice lion motif to go with Tywin.
I am very, very happy with the results - which I have tried (and no doubt failed) to capture with my abysmal to non-existent photography skills.