Iron Man Titan Custom Figure Painting Contest

[Boba Debt]

You can get the pictures to me as late at Saturday night

 

[RustBelt PGH]

Well this went ok. Not what I was planning, but deadlines kill me. This is actually the first run "rough draft" figure. The cab business in PGH randomly picked up the last few weeks (yay!) and I didn't get time to redo my second Titan the way I wanted (boo!). Anyway, I took ol' Shellhead down to Heinz Field for the photos, seemed appropriate. I chose "33" for his jersey number because that is the year the team was founded, instead of using a player's number. I figured the moment I painted a number on him that player would get hurt or traded. Other than that it's a pretty straight forward conversion of the uniform. I did take a page from the Mark 42's multicolored fingers to add in a reference to the team's 6 SuperBowl rings, which you can see better on the photos I submitted. The Terrible Towel was 3d printed on my FormLabs FormOne Stereo-lithography printer. It's only the second or third time I've used the printer, and actually had several failed prints before getting a decent one. Bit of a learning curve compared to other printers I've used.

Here is a few process photos of the print:


Support structure generated



The tray is full of a light sensitive resin, anywhere the green laser focus becomes solid. Currently I only have clear resin.



Removing the support martial is a pain, with a bit of sanding and finish work required. The yellow towel there is a prior failed print.

I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of the suits!
-Lance!

Edit:
I just thought of this in the shower... I should note that the Steelers logos are found decals. I wandered around Walmart for a while and stumbled on these which just happened to be the right size... I assumed the quality of my "33" text would automatically give away the fact that I didn't paint the teeny tiny steelers emblems, but just to make sure, and avoid any issues later, I did not paint those. Also, WTF are nail tattoos?!?

 

[NeoRutty]

Final touchups and then sending in pics... (had issues getting that head back on)

Should have them by 6:00 pm West Coast time!

 

[TheDodgeMan]

What kind of paint did you guys use? If you ever do another contest I'm in.

 

[NeoRutty]

Mostly used testors - some out of bottle, some spray paint. Spray paint looked nicer, but no matter how well I taped it up, just because of the way the armor was on the toy, it would find a way to seep under. I ended up having to touch up with just regular testors.

I had never "model painted" before, learned a bunch about better taping practices. Would likely do better next time.

 

[TheDodgeMan]

Did you sand it down then use spray primer on it? Or did you just paint right over the other colors?

 

[NeoRutty]

Sanded it down... there was a huge seam on the leg I tried to get rid of... so put filler in that, sanded again... then primed it with just a grey primer... then sanded AGAIN (cuz I could still see a pretty obvious seam.

Then sprayed the whole thing green. I would have been better off spraying gold where I intended gold though, since those pieces of armor were set in.

OR... once I had it green, painted in the gold with a brush. It was spraying to gold striping after that was running into the cracks of the green pieces of armor.

 

[RustBelt PGH]

I used those 50/99 cent bottles of acrylic paint you can get from Walmart. The yellow took a lot of layering to get it to really register correctly.

 

[zorprime]

slandered primer first then acrylic paints (thinned with water one to one) takes more coats but you get a smoother look. Enamel paints are good for hard plastic models for these I was afraid they would react with the plastic so acrylic is a safer bet.

 

[Kevin Gossett]

I sanded the figure down and primed it with rattle can primer. Sprayed all the pieces white, let it cure, then taped it off for black. After that was dry, I brushed on the gold parts and touched up any trouble areas