The impending arrival of my Ultron figure got me motivated to drag out my Iron Man conversion project last night -- I had previously stripped the figure I'm converting down to the bare metal and I have re-shaped the legs to remove some previous detailing, but I still needed to do some final clean-up to dig the paint out of the etched grooves and such.

Much to my delight, I discovered that acetone -- when used on a cotton ball, anyway -- does not damage the base (I stripped the base as well as the metal figure, and I still needed to clean up some of the paint on the "MARVEL" lettering).  Not sure if the base would survive an acetone bath, but acetone on a cotton ball had no effect on the plastic-like material (not sure if it's plastic, or epoxy, or what).

I discovered last night that I will probably need to re-shape the donor figure's traps (the trapezius muscles) in order to do the classic red-and-gold neck ring properly.  Thankfully, the lead carves easily with an X-acto knife, and I'll be re-shaping the entire torso area with epoxy putty, so I'll be able to further re-shape and smooth the traps then.

Painted Absorbing Man.  Definitely getting this one!  Photo from Steve's figurine forum site.

I don't like the opened mouth, but count me in for this one !

I don't believe EM waited this long to release such a Classic villain !

from grim reaper and From Alan i think at eaglemoss heres his site http://www.marvelcustoms.co.uk/newgroupalbum.htm

im sure grim can answer any of your questions when he comes online