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Michael Terry
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Posted: 27 August 2007 at 7:20pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

The wasp...
So does she have the wandering eye like so many others have stated about this bust?


(poorly painted)
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Roger A Ott II
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Posted: 27 August 2007 at 8:59pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Don Bohm:  Love the Iron Man mini statues from Bowen. I wanted the Full Size ones, but they are rare and expensive!

I bought one at a convention and the other on Ebay about two years ago.  Got them both for what I considered reasonable prices.  I don't seem them online as much as I used to, but I still see them for around $175 now and then.



The only thing I don't like about them is the gold coloring.  It's too dark and doesn't look like how I'd imagine Iron Man's armor to be colored.


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Don Bohm
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I agree on the gold, be cool if it were gold chrome, but I usually see the Classic version, ( on the right) to be over $200 if I can even find it. The Silver Age ( left) is more readily avalible it seems, for abround the $175 you mentioned. And then theres the Classic bust.... sheesh!
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Posted: 28 August 2007 at 4:52am | IP Logged | 4 post reply

The only thing I don't like about them is the gold coloring.  It's too dark and doesn't look like how I'd imagine Iron Man's armor to be colored.

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An inherent problem with gold. Despite being called the "yellow metal", and being thus coloring in every comicbook since the Dawn of Time, gold is really a shade of brown, leaning to ochre. It just doesn't look right when characters we are used to seeing colored yellow turn up in their "accurate" colors.

I discovered this myself, when I was about 14, and I made a model out of clay of the original Iron Man armor, and painted it dutifully with gold paint (just as had Tony Stark in the issue I had just picked up). Didn't look right, but I was too anal even then to even think about painting it yellow.

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Robert Cosgrove
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"The Yellow Avenger" wouldn't quite have the same ring, would it?
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I just think "gold chrome" , thats how I see Iron Man's armor. And I "see" his red sections as red anodized.
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Brian Talley
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Picked these up today (Wonder Woman as well, can't find on line pic)

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An inherent problem with gold. Despite being called the "yellow metal", and being thus coloring in every comicbook since the Dawn of Time, gold is really a shade of brown, leaning to ochre. It just doesn't look right when characters we are used to seeing colored yellow turn up in their "accurate" colors.

I discovered this myself, when I was about 14, and I made a model out of clay of the original Iron Man armor, and painted it dutifully with gold paint (just as had Tony Stark in the issue I had just picked up). Didn't look right, but I was too anal even then to even think about painting it yellow.

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I use Brass paint to simulate the yellow gold look.

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David Ferguson
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Posted: 02 September 2007 at 8:54am | IP Logged | 9 post reply

bend Spider-Man and Nightcrawler into more appropriate poses

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The black costumed one's pose is far more appropriate.

There is also a free Spider-man figurine you get when you subscribe that is on a rooftop with a traditional pose.
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Michael Terry
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Posted: 02 September 2007 at 11:08am | IP Logged | 10 post reply

Can I request this thread as a sticky?

It would be perfect for discussing our action figures, model kits, Bowen figures, electronics, extra.

Or even its own location like movies and TV.
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Consider it done. I will also modify the title
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George Lee
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Posted: 02 September 2007 at 1:24pm | IP Logged | 12 post reply

My Bowen full-size classic Avengers statues. I regret not
picking up the Scarlet Witch, but can't wait to add furry Beast.




Marvel Legends Avengers action figures.



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