1/6 Hot Rod : Should I wait for Hot Toys or Go Custom

[bransen2099]

Personally, I would wait. And I wouldn't hire the guy to do the paint job. The paint looks nice and smooth, but it looks like the guy struggles on finer detail. The flames could've been taped off a lot cleaner and I wouldn't accept that on a HT base

 

[Boba Debt]

Well I think he could do better with the Hot Toys figure but I will do more research before I commission anyone to do this, if I have to resort to that to get this figure.

As part of my Titan re-paint contest I have the option to buy the entries back from the contestants, so I can always use his figure as a place holder until I get a Hot Toys version.

 

[Y4NK33 PL4N3T]

I would wait as well. Having looked into commissioning a similar project here I reached out to many of the more well known and highest recommended customizers here and none of them had repainted an Iron man into a variant figure. It's a huge project when you consider how many individual pieces/molds there are to a single figure. If you really want to get this commissioned you'll find those with experience doing this professionally are located overseas with cost of $600 and up.

 

[Lejuan]

That paint job is rough as guts. But throw a Hot Toys figure at the person who did it, sure, why not

 

[Boba Debt]

These $10 figures are made of a plastic that's hard to paint and they only break down so far.

I was impressed with the fades and how he didn't seem to miss any of the color details.

The flames are ok, and could be better but he was under a time constraint.

I think he did a fantastic job in the short amount of time he had to paint this.

 

[Boba Debt]

I would have expected some news or even some rumors about future IM releases by now, but other then Whiplash there hasn't been anything.

I guess I got into this hobby during a big push for Iron Man because it seemed like there was news about new releases every other week.

 

[Brainiac]

I would have expected some news or even d=some rumors about future IM releases by now, but other then Whiplash there hasn't been anything.

I guess I got into this hobby during a big push for Iron Man because it seemed like there was news about new releases every other week.

The Iron Age has ended!

 

[hokietwo]

Iron man is pretty much dead right now for new dev with GOTG hopefully BTTF and clearing out the recent reveals. We will not see a new Iron man until Avengers next year me thinks. IF we do it could be something like this or the 14 other mark vii variants. We won't see new molds I fear.

 

[Chris Kay]

Found this thread by accident, and original hot toys hot rod is still out of sight for the next 12 month minimum

Back in May I made my own, based on war machine:

https://www.sideshowcollectors.com/...Mark-XXII-Hot-Rod-(War-Machine-2-0-Prototype)

 

[Y4NK33 PL4N3T]

Found this thread by accident, and original hot toys hot rod is still out of sight for the next 12 month minimum

Back in May I made my own, based on war machine:

https://www.sideshowcollectors.com/...Mark-XXII-Hot-Rod-(War-Machine-2-0-Prototype)

That's great work!

 

[Chris Kay]

Thank you, it will get new arms very soon

 

[Boba Debt]

It's kind of funny.

I posted this thread in March of 2014 and in less then a year I have a Hot Toys Hot Rod Sitting on my shelf.

This is a fast moving hobby