MCU Heads (Iron Man, Captain America, Dr Strange, Bruce Banner, Falcon, Winter Soldier) (Marvel Legends) Custom Action Figure
Custom #:97430
Name:MCU Heads (Iron Man, Captain America, Dr Strange, Bruce Banner, Falcon, Winter Soldier)
Custom Type:Action Figure
Toy Series:Marvel Legends
Creator:Customs by Matchu  
Date Added:August 26, 2018
Base Figure:Misc Head Casts
Height:6.00 inches
Critiques:Requested!
Hey everyone. Back again with another minor reveal. This time, I didn’t make a custom figure, but I did make 7 alternate heads for my MCU collection. Check out, Tony, Tony, Cap, Banner, Strange, Bucky and Sam.

I decided that doing 7 heads at the same time would be a great idea (note the sarcasm). I figured, I’d kill 7 birds with one stone I guess. Haha. I wanted to use this as practice to try to perfect my head painting abilities. I decided to use a tutorial by Harrop who is most well known for his 1/12 scale Star Wars heads. It was easy to follow and it most of the paints used where ones I actually owned, leaving minimal information for me to figure out on my own. You can find said tutorial on his youtube channel.

Overall, I was quite happy with the skin tones and the hair on all of these guys. I took my time, corrected all my slops and mishaps I made when painting and was overly pleased with the end results. I thought the scone tones looked quite realistic.

The eyes (and eye brows) are where I hit all my problems, as I usually do. I tried to redo them all over and over (pretty sure Cap has prob 10 layers of paint on his eyes haha). I got to the point where I was pretty happy with most of them, but then I attempted to put the little white glisten into all of their eyes (to add realism) and completely botched all of them. At that point, I was so over it, that I did not even bother to correct them at all.

I figured, from a far, these would serve their purpose (most of them were for my Civil War display in the back of my collection, the only spot in my collection that displays these characters without their helmet/mask.) Overall, I am happy enough with them. They aren’t perfect, but it was a good opportunity to try my hand at a new face painting technique, that I think turned out quite well. If it wasn’t for my damn shakey hands and unbalanced eye they’d be pretty close to perfect. Haha. Thanks everyone for stopping by an checking out this reveal. Up next, 90’s X-Factor!

Head over to my webpage by googling "customs by matchu" to see more pics (in higher resolution). Im the first one in the results.

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TheMattMan095 -
Saturday, April 27, 2019
The Strange head in particular is quite good. You outdid both of Hasbro's attempts.
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KoolMisfit -
Monday, August 27, 2018
Serious upgrades!
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JeddTheJedi -
Sunday, August 26, 2018
Beautifully done, painting faces has always been a stumbling block for me, and I think you've gotten these really realistic. Attempting the white spot in the eyes always makes me anxious too.
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Staley -
Sunday, August 26, 2018
Fantastic work !
OUTSTANDING sculpting and paintjob !
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MercMouth Customs -
Sunday, August 26, 2018
Nice work on the new faces Matchu. I run into the same problem with the eye spots, it's hard to do it without your hands shaking. What tools are you using to apply the white glistens? I use a toothpick that has been shaved and sanded down to a fine point, or a fine needle with the point clipped off.
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Customs by Matchu -
Sunday, August 26, 2018
those are both great ideas. I use a toothpick but didn't sand it down to a finer point. I should make sure I do that next time. Thanks for the tips.
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