The first ESB helmet I have painted.

So I have had this helmet in my hands for ever. It just recentally got a new owner and he had me paint it ESB style. It's a Boba Maker helmet with his RF, stalk, mq-1 and visor. The paints are all Rouge studios paints, except the dark grey is the older color not the reffer grey. The back is my own mix of paints, I used Euro 1 dark green over a blueish green color I mixed, and then has german dunkelblau over it. The deals are all luskys and were quite nice.

Well let me know what you think.

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These were the first pics taken with my new digital camera so say good bye to my old ****** cell phone pics I have been posting and say hello to 10megapixels!

Awesome work...:thumbsup... love the pictures with out flash.

Thats looks killer!

absolutely A1 work there!!! You should be very proud indeed!!! :thumbsup

I love it! fantastic paint job.

Great paint job bruv... :thumbsup

very nice for your first try. my first try was terrible. LOL. great work ,you should be proud of that bucket.

Looks good bro, are you sure you still wanna do mine now? LOL

Yea Gilmore I will still do yours, not right now but soon and it will be better then this one as I learned a lot from doing this one.

And this wasn't the first Fett helmet I painted, just the first ESB. I think it was the 7th fett helmet I have painted...maybe?

Thanks for the kind words guys. I hope the new owner likes it as much.

Nice job! That looks great! Are you sure that this is your first time painting ESB? haha

lookin good the damage and weathering look top notch:cheers

sorry not thread bumping on purpose who makes that helmet?

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Originally Posted by MADDMUDDER

sorry not thread bumping on purpose who makes that helmet?

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I think he said BM.

Very nice work bro! Looking great! :thumbsup

I liked, I would be able to do a job like this!



Eu gostei, queria ser capaz de fazer um trabalho como este!

Yea it is a Boba Maker helmet.

sorry i did not try to mean anything , nice job regardless.

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Originally Posted by Predatormv

Yea Gilmore I will still do yours, not right now but soon and it will be better then this one as I learned a lot from doing this one.

And this wasn't the first Fett helmet I painted, just the first ESB. I think it was the 7th fett helmet I have painted...maybe?

Thanks for the kind words guys. I hope the new owner likes it as much.

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I didn't take anything you said badly. I just didn't want people to think this was the first helmet I painted and that some how I magicly had good painting skills. The first helmet I ever painted looked terrible and has been repainted several times since.

Hey, magic is on your hands.. That's a great looking bucket. I just hope mine comes close, when I get the time to do it.

Beautiful. I'm still new to all this Fett stuff but the level of detail on these helmets and armor is simply amazing.

Great work, I really like the 'splatter' details.

Niiiiiice!! ESB all the way! :)

that is an awesome paint job!!! great work, my hat off for you!!

sweet painting skills. Wish i had them!

Great looking helmet, did you free hand all the battle damage?

Yes everything was done free hand topically.

May be some time ill have those skills, congrats man!!

I think it looks amazing.. id like to try my hand at painting a helmet one day...id strive for mine to come anywhere near as nice as this one.

Quality, nothing else to say

Looks pretty awesome for your first one

That is some killer detail work! Fantastic job!

You mentioned that you followed the Rogue Studios paint list using the Testors 'Model Masters' Acrylic paints. I also asked if you free handed all the battle damage, which you confirmed you did (AWESOME job, really) my next questions is did you apply with a paintrush or Airbrush or both? Any tips/tricks/pointers appreciated. Also did you use the stencils for guides or just eyeball it?
-Aaron

Very nicely done...truly a fantastic job. Hopefully whenever I get to painting a helmet it will look this good.

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You mentioned that you followed the Rogue Studios paint list using the Testors 'Model Masters' Acrylic paints. I also asked if you free handed all the battle damage, which you confirmed you did (AWESOME job, really) my next questions is did you apply with a paintrush or Airbrush or both? Any tips/tricks/pointers appreciated. Also did you use the stencils for guides or just eyeball it?
-Aaron

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I did not use the Model Masters line, I used all Floquil enamel paints except in a few spots. The base colors were airbrushed on. The concrete color on the back was painted on first, and then I used liquid mask and then airbrushed the Euro 1 Dark green(this one was model masters) over it. I also misted the dunkelblau (also madel masters) over it to give it the bluish tones where I wanted it. I then pulled the masking off to show the concrete under. The silver was painted on with a very fine brush by hand, no stencils just done free hand. The grey colors were painted on over the silver, again with a small brush. I dull coated the entire helmet and then went back with silver again and put some small bright silver details in to have the different colors of silver the helmet has. After that was all said and done I went in with some paint on the tip of a brush and just blew on it really hard to give the silver and rust colored splatters I wanted. I also did it with the red color on the manidibles where the silver looked too uniform to sort of break it up a bit. I also airbrushed a bit of that dark grey you see around the dent all over the helmet in spots to give the base colors more depth and the burn marks from the dent.

Oh and the brown color on the RF ear is actually the rattle can color since I couldn't get Floquil color in time to get it done.

And the little black dot and T on the RF cap were hand painted as there wern't decals for it.

The decals I got were for the kill stripes, black and white arches for the RF cap and the white arch and E shapped things on the other ear.

In the future I would not use decals for the kill stripes as they are all one uniform color and they should fade from yellow to orange. The ear decals are nice though.

oh the beauty of a perfect helmet combined with a perfect paintjob.


you rock

That is a beautiful piece of work there! :) Everything about that bucket is amazing! good work!

:skull El1te