Painting the Grant McCune Helmet (GMH)

Have you guys tried Floquil Signal Red 1 (NOT Signal Red)? --------->

Signal-Red-1.gif

superjedi, would be possible to see ti with diferent lighting? :)
 
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I tried to contact that guy a couple of times but never got anywhere with trying to buy the paint.
I'm checking on another source.

KaanE, not sure what you want to see with different lighting.
 
Signal Red and Polish Crimson were both available from Floquil between the 1960s to the 1980s. Lee and I tried to narrow the color pool down by verifying the color was available no later than 1979.
 
Yes but remeber I was talking about Singal Red 1, not Signal Red. Could you check if it was avaiable between 60s and 80s?
 
Tyler Durden said:
Signal Red and Polish Crimson were both available from Floquil between the 1960s to the 1980s. Lee and I tried to narrow the color pool down by verifying the color was available no later than 1979.
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Who is this long time ghost from the past coming back to haunt these halls? Welcome back buddy!
 
Thing Im having a problem with is the dark green or grey that is under the main dome colour,
I cant work out weather its grey or green or a slate greyie green colour?
Thoughts?
 
If I'm not wrong, all three helmets were painted at the same time, and there is a pic where you can see the same grey applied to the three helemts and also a chest plate. So, it's the same grey, and the RotJ is clearly grey, not green.

The closer colour I found was the Humbrol #67, which in the SAMPLE pics looks a grey/green colour, but it's a dark grey in the real life.

67.jpg


Please, try it, you won't be dissapointed.
 
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I dont know about that if you see in this pic the dome(Dome only not visor area) on the clossest one seems to be a grey green along with silver patches were the middle on is grey with sliver patchesSandy Helmets 01 (1).jpg
 
There is no green in that helmet (at least not that much) is just a green saturated image. It's the shadow on the helmet that looks like it's painted with green-grey or grey-green. The farthest helmet's dome is almost covered in that 'green' shadow but that doesn't mean is painted... It's just a shadow. This is the result of a poorly illuminated room.

I played a little bit with the color correction of the image and got this:

Color Correction.jpg

.................

But I might be wrong... Again.
 
I use a dark grey color under the green on my rotj paintjobs...if u look at some of the HiRes shots S1P posted u get really good pics of the color under the marroon of the mandibles its grey
 
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