Iron Man: Modern Armor

Avengers Month continues with a repaint of Iron Man in his modern armor. Although it's not his current armor, that's the Extremis armor. Is there a better name for this look besides Modern? Is Extremis now PoMo?

This custom has been done a million times, so I’ll just link to other customs. I covered an ML8 Iron Man with silver paint, then added the Golden Avenger colors with Tamiya Transparent Yellow and Red.

But wait, there’s more! I glued on the faceplate, because nothing frustrates me more than a shelf-dive that causes Iron Man to look incomplete for six months until I can tear the room apart and find the little sliver of plastic. Since it was a permanent attachment, I cut the bottom of the faceplate down to minimize the duck face that the ToyBiz release had.

I also added Zoids pieces to the underarm to beef up the torso. The original had this weird shoulder articulation that stuck the arms a long ways away from the torso. To fit into this thing, Tony Stark would had to have had pterosaur shoudlerblades or something. So now he’d be really wide, but at least there’s some continuity in the lines of the figure. I should have just shortened the shoulder struts, an old-fashioned Grown Nerd fix, but I hate to lose posability.