I have a Stealth Iron Man. I wanted to do this but I would botch it. Will you do it for me

I have a Stealth Iron Man. I wanted to do this but I would botch it. Will you do it for me

This is just outstanding. I have that stealth version but I'm not that talented to do what you did here haha. Excellent job dude!

thanks mate cheers

you did a perfect job, looks amazing.

thanks mate cheers glad you liked this

Thank you so much for the tips. I usually like to steel wool my figures all over to dull them and give them a good soap and water wash before painting.

I am also glad to hear you confirm my frustrations with Tamiya brush paints. They are beautiful when they cooperate! You can check out my album here, I don't have a lot of customs, but I do have an Iron Patriot I painted a while back using the Tamiya clear brush paints over silver. It came out great, but was definitely not easy!! I was always fearful of trying the Tamiya spray cans on figures since spray paint in a big no-no for PVC plastics. Apparently Tamiya is a formula that works!

I never thought of using the steel woosh clean up trick before - thanks for tip I will have to give a try for sure -- I also heard that walmart now have a "the Avengers" style 6"inch Ironman - iam keen to get that one if I can - Iam also looking for the equivalent War Machine but because I live in Australia I'm having some issues finding one.

Mike, this is beautiful and exactly the results I am hoping to get on my Stealth Strike Iron Man I picked up at Toys R Us. Like you, I wanted a nice Mark IV. I want to ask, when you sprayed this, did you use spray cans or an airbrush? I was curious because I would like to try this instead of hand brushing. Plus I thought that spray can paint won't dry well on these.

thanks mate I am glad you liked this, actually in regards to your question, it is way better and more efficient timewise to use the spray cans. But only use Tamiya Model Spray paints , they are fast drying , and very very pristine in the colour and not to mention Robust and durable.I uses Tamiya Metallic Silver and Tamiya Clear Red for plastic. I recommend before spraying sanding down any imperfections though.And before you use the metallic Silver shake it for about 10 mins this way you get more of a chromed effect.The sprays are better because when you hand paint around the joints etc you risk making it gluggy (trust me it sucks).The sprays made a nice even coat that looked factory painted.The gold was hand painted only because the risk of masking over the red could lift it up. I also recommend getting a small pot of clear red so you can hand brush over tiny little areas that my need touching up .Method is metallic silver first , until your happy with the shine, then clear red .It takes a few sprays for the red to really showing depth . I even thought about using clear yellow over the silver for the gold areas - that would look awsome.
Thanks for the comments and I hope this helps, you should take a photo and put it up when your finished I would love to see it

Cheers Mike

Gorgeous repaint, metalmike! I love how it looks! Red and Gold eye-candy.

thankyou , glad you guys like this

I´m glad you couldn´t find the regular version, mate.

This one looks at least, at least, 10 times better. Great!

thanks buddy cheers - !

Wow, amazing paint job!

Thankyou cheers !

OK, wow. That's a lot of work to put into making the stealth one into a regular one. But it actually looks better than the Mk IV you could have gotten at Walmart in 2010. Like, a lot better. The spray clear red really came out nice. And the details are really crisp and sharp. Excellent job.

Thanks mate cheers - it wasn't that much work to do , it just took working what to paint etc , I had to use a lot of reference material to make sure I got a look that was similar to the movie version . Cheers & thanks