I’d like to say this mod was all my idea, but I can’t.

At all.

Here’s the original:

Neat, unconventional sculpt. In fact, the sculptor revealed that he was under instructions from Marvel to specifically do an un-helmeted Iron Man sculpt.

But someone on HCRealms.com thought it’d be neat to put his held helmet on instead of his head, and did. It looked simple enough to do, and I’d done more radical mods already, so here’s how I proceeded:

• Cut Robert Downey Jr.’s head off with a hobby knife.
• Carefully cut the Iron Man helmet from the left hand.
• Used a heated push pin to poke a small hole in both the neck stump and the corresponding point on the helmet.
• Stuck a straight pin in the hole, then cut it off about 1.5 mm above the neckline.
• Glued down the new head and swiveled it to a new facing position.
• Painted the left side of his head and left hand where they were once joined together.
• Painted the eye slits, chest unibeam and palm repulsor in white.

Again, not even remotely original; there are probably a dozen other guys on HCRealms alone who did the same. But it’s among my mods, so here it is.