Painting the Grant McCune Helmet (GMH)

So the white on the back of the ROTJ appears to be the same? Is it the gelcoat? Is it paint?
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Spidey, thanks so much for sharing this info. As always, your input on paint is dead on. Man o man, were my color choices wrong or what?? lol.

I am surprised that C&O Enchantment Blue is not the upper cheek color. This was Lee's/RS choice for his ROTJ helmets, and I've always assumed its the accepted (read: "official") color for ROTJ and its Sandy painted brethren (like the PP2). Interesting indeed!!!
 
Spidey, thanks so much for sharing this info. As always, your input on paint is dead on. Man o man, were my color choices wrong or what?? lol.

I am surprised that C&O Enchantment Blue is not the upper cheek color. This was Lee's/RS choice for his ROTJ helmets, and I've always assumed its the accepted (read: "official") color for ROTJ and its Sandy painted brethren (like the PP2). Interesting indeed!!!

No Prob.... again these are just colors that Evan4218 and I choose about four years ago.. im sure they need some tweaking. And in keeping with the fact that all three helmets were painted by Sandy at the same time, the ROTJ PP2, and PP2 promo helmet should be pretty close in color.

Here's a pic of RS colors as ROTJ compared to mine.... not showing the compare shot to start anything, i promise(y), just want to show the differences between the two. I will say that with everything Fett, RS colors were a great start for me, there's no denying that...I just felt, as many did, that they needed some serious adjusting.

This is a pic of Ripcords helmet painted by Justin Evan4218 using my color choices that justin and I worked on..(y)

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Sup Eric... and how so?
If you lay it next to the green dome...it works..relative to the ROTJ gauntlets.
Do some test swatches(y) ...I was surprised myself, thats for sure.
 
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Here's a pic of RS colors as ROTJ compared to mine.... not showing the compare shot to start anything, i promise(y), just want to show the differences between the two. I will say that with everything Fett, RS colors were a great start for me, there's no denying that...I just felt, as many did, that they needed some serious adjusting.

How many years the RS helmet has? I ask because of the few helmets RS painted in the RotJ scheme, long time ago, he used the ESB colours except for the back and the killstripes. What I want to say is that the Lee has NEVER made any RotJ list, maybe he has searched the colours since the paintjobs, so you can't compare a apples with oranges...

BTW, your colours look really nice except for the red, I think it's just too brown while the the RotJ red looks to be more on the pink zone, not too much, but a little bit.

Just my 0.02$

PS: As you have said, I do not want to start anything either, just showing my opinion.
 
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How many years the RS helmet has? I ask because of the few helmets RS painted in the RotJ scheme, long time ago, he used the ESB colours except for the back and the killstripes. What I want to say is that the Lee's RotJ list is too old and, if I'm not wrong, he must have searched for new colours since then, so you can't compare an "Apple I" with a "Mac Pro"...

BTW, your colours look really nice except for the red, I think it's just too brown while the the RotJ red looks to be more on the pink zone, not too much, but a little bit.

Yeah I think you missed my point KaanE, Sean pointed out a color that RS used on his original list for the PP2 version, you weren't around when that list first came out, as it was a long time ago...I think I still have a copy of that "first" list. If RS has updated his list, there hasn't been any sightings of an ROTJ/PP2 RS painted helmet anywhere to my knowledge, and that's the only pic of his work on ROTJ that I have...so that's why I used it, nothing more. So please don't turn this into something that it's not. I would say that if he or anyone wants to "contribute" their thoughts on colors to this thread, they should... Thanks

Just as his list was tweaked and adjusted, so can mine... and that's what this thread is all about... no one knows what these colors are, no matter who or what you may've been told.. people are close, but we'll never know 100%... only thing that has EVER been known is the brand.. Floquil.. that's it.

Example: here is the pic of Sandy painting all three helmets, PP2, PP2 V2 promo, and ROTJ.... so I think that if you do the math, they should all be pretty close or relative in color, no?. My guess is they used the same paint colors, as well as the same brand, Floquil.. (she's wearing the ROTJ, and the PP2 (GMH) is the one at the bottom) Point is there shouldn't be three different lists for three different helmets if they were all painted at the same time, by the same person, with the same paints.

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I would say that the colors of the ROTJ should be close...being they were painted by the same person...theres are a few pics out there of the PP2 helmet but alof them dont show all the angles. Im really debating what I want to paint my first GMH. Id like to have like 6 of them to paint different ways each in all honesty but finances wont allow that right now. The dome and upper and lower cheeks are very close in color to the ROTJ...problem your gonna have is the back of the helmets areas...where there is very little reference and the refernce there is, is very poor...but once again VERY similar to the ROTJ hunter green with misting of grey paint...right ear looks the same style as well...I would get CC ears if possible get them looking like metal then go over them with dark grey and brown and then sand away the paint to get the effect...thats what i did for my ROTJ ears on my MS3...the left ear looks similar but also looks green in some of the pics there arent great pics of that side fo the helmet......The Red trim is a brighter looking red...kill stripes all but two appear to be the same red orange as the ROTJ the last two seem faded...theres alot of physical damage to the helmet in the pics not just the masked damage...to get that effect i would get the layered green over the silver and go back with a exacto once dry its a long process but it works...anyone have a better idea that that and im all ears...this is for the tiny stuff you cant mask...on this and the ROTJ theres "carbon" around alot of the damage i like to dry brush this on top of the green once its dry hope to get mine soon just dont know which style i want to do

Sorry Dom, you said this first... my bad, couldn't agree more.
 
I never get tired of seeing those old pics. Wishe the first one was higher res, I'd live to zoom in and read the labels on the paint jars!!!
Can't wait to start painting this helmet!
 
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