First off, thanks to Wor-Gar and pjam for their advice. I didn't end up using that iron...though it can get pretty hot, since Wor-Gar mentioned the synthetic setting, I pulled out the ol' handheld iron, and it worked like a charm in about 30 seconds. Thank you!
jiminy - thanks for your follow up
Different painters will, of course, tell you different things. The key to fixing the nose rub for me was to match the color, which is of course always a hard trick and requires a good eye. I used a mix of acrylics to do it. I prefer to use Games Workshop paints personally - they blend well and hold their color, and you can water them down. For this one, I used a mix of Mournfang Brown, Abbaddon Black, Ratskin Flesh, and Kislev Flesh. Basically, it's a fairly standard brown and black, along with a standard fleshtone. That leaves the Ratskin, which is like an orangey-skintone. Think George Hamilton. I don't use it often, but it definitely helped me match it this time. I can't tell you the measurements, because I basically kept mixing it until I got a color I liked.
Then I used a very tiny - size 00 - brush, and applied it sparingly in the rub area. The nice thing about these paints is that if you glop it on, you don't need a second coat, but if you go thinly, it becomes almost seethru. The only other trick is to make sure to blend it around the area so there's no hard edges.
It's not HARD, but it takes some patience and a few tries to get the color right. It took me about an hour, but I've done this a bunch of times - expect it to take a bit longer. And if you mess up, no worries - as long as the paint hasn't fully dried, you can just wipe it off.
For the hair, it's about the same. Try to match the existing paint as best as possible, give it a good coat, and blend it at the edges (that way, you don't have to worry about that fine detail right at the hairline, you can just let Big Chief's painters take care of that). I'd recommend then adding a tiny bit of a lighter color to your mixture (probably brown, I'd imagine), and drybrush the whole thing. Drybrushing is basically a technique where you take an older, bigger brush, and dip it in the paint, then you brush most of it off on something else so there's just a tiny bit of paint left on it. If you've ever used a roller, think about when you need to put it back in the paint and you get only like a half a coat? It's like that. Then you liberally brush the hair. What it does is just catch the highest points, and not the lower ones, so it ends up highlighting it.
Hope that helps, I'm not very good at explaining things
Ok, here's the pics I promised. Freshly ironed lapel, thigh "wideners", fixed nose, futzed, and repainted buttons. I'm happy with it:
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And with my other Bonds:
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I almost hate to take close-up pictures because I start to see things that didn't originally bug me.
