Apr
11
Continue with the repaint of Hot Toys Iron Man Mk 3. I shade the armor with subtle black painted on the lines and grooves, the shade is visible even with few heavy wet coat of the semi clear red. 
After painted the red its time to touch up on the details, i use acrylic matt black to paint the detail and panel lines. 
The before and after repaint, i use brighter red compare to hot toys iron man mk 3. I do observe that Hot Toys iron man mk 3 painting is different from the battle damage version, battle damage version is better than normal version. But the cons is battle damage version faded (abdomen armor) over time. I do believe is due to the paints hot toys used, whereas normal version is just color of the rubber. So, it won’t faded as much as battle damage. Of course dust and oil do affect the rubber to look ‘worn out’. 
More photo coming soon. :)
Apr
07
Commission repaint for the Hot Toys Iron Man mk3. The figures was in very bad shape when i receive it, color look dull and dirty, some paints even start to crack. Wonder what this Iron Man gone through with his previous owner.
So my job is to repaint and give back the shine he should have, so i decided to paint it in slightly different red and gold.
The paint work of the head.
The paintwork for the leg.
I use mr. color gold (no. 9) with custom mixed semi clear red, bout 30% gaia bright red 70% gaia clear red.
I had finish painted the torso as well, and the next step would be painting the details and touch up the those error during masking, for stay tuned for more.
Dec
14
Here is the steps i took to paint the iron man mk 3 crushed helmet.
1. Gloss black
2. Painted silver
3. Mist coat of clear red
4. Wet coat of clear red
5. Mask the red part
6. Painted gold
7.Paint chipped effect
8.Hand paint more chipping and panel lines and top coat
9.Slightly wash/filter with enamel paints
The result, photo taken under natural sunlight.
Nov
06
Just to share with other how i fix Hot Toys Ironman Mk3 pink armor. Its quiet serious on the fading armor for this Hot Toys collection. Can see the abdomen, neck, crotch armor and even hand are in pink color. Most serious and visible is the abdomen and crotch armor, the hand and neck still bearable.
I just spray Gaianote clear red on the knuckle, the fading is not that serious, so couple of layer of clear red will tone it back. The battle damage paint with paint brush, i using citadel boltgun metal and vallejo dark grey for the battle damages.
As for the neck, crotch and abdomen. I paint it with steps as shown below. Its the same method as Ironman Mk6, my previous post.
1. Silver paints.
2.Mist coat of gaianote clear red. (2 layers to make sure its evenly cover the whole abdomen)
3.Wet coat (1-2 layers make sure its glossy and look wet)
4.Wet coat (1-2 layers to make the red darker, which closer to hot toys factory painted metallic red)
Here’s another photo to show the before n after.
Nov
03
Got couple of requests on fixing ironman pink panties. Here i show how i fix the ironman mk 6 pink panties.
I using air brush methods, so only recommend to those who got air brushing tools.
The crotch armor of ironman mk 6 is made out of soft rubber, and its the only parts which faded. First of all, i will remove the faded paints. The thinner i using is Hobby Thinner which is locally made by a hobby shop – Hobby HQ which only sell in the shop, other brand of thinner such as Mr. Hobby, Gaianote even nail polish remover can be use to remove the paints.
Once remove the red paints, can notice that there’s a silver layer underneath. Seem like Hot Toys is painting with candy method.
After remove the paints the original color of the rubber is close to the figure itself, but it lack of ‘metallic’ feel to it, ironman without the ‘metallic’, hahaha just kidding.
Here’s the 4 steps i done to get back the metallic red. With 30 minutes interval of each steps.
1. Silver as base. (not need gloss black, because that will over shine the factory painted metallic red)
2. 2 layers of mist coat (using gaianote no.041 clear red)
3. 2 layers of wet coat.
4. another 2 layers of wet coat.
No need to top coat, because the top coat is make out of harder material which will crack once bend the rubber.
Here’s the comparison of the progress.
Hope it help and happy repainting. 
Oct
27
I got quiet a few requests on repaint and restore the color of the armor on Hot Toys Iron man. Its a very common defects, which only appear after some times.
Here is a Iron man Mk. III i receive today, almost the whole abdomen armor are faded and turn into pink.
The whole abdomen armor are make out of rubber which is flexible, only HT iron man mkIII abdomen is make out of rubber other series are only at the crotch armor, and will turn into pink panties over time. >_< Something i find it kinda disappointing, although i not HT collector but its a quiet pricey collection, so they better think a way to resolve the problem.
Beside ironman mk III, i got another mk VI with me, need to work on both of the armor soon and will put up the steps i went through to restore the color and tones. Stay tuned.
