Allrighty,
Here is a REAL update. I have finished my mods and started to lay down my base coat colors. I decieded to do a reverse masking similar to what fettfullof$$ uses on some of his buckets. This will give me the control I want and allow me to keep a good pace at painting it without a lot of touch up.
I bought a brand new airbrush to help me on this job. Normaly I just use my trusty Iwata Revolution.... but I got me a Bager 155 Anthem to help me out. This was recomended to me becase of its design. I find its better for large coverage where my Iwata is good for small details. I found I was too use to the Iwata, thus the touch up spot on the mandable where I sanded it down to the primer and started to repaint.
I am using all enamels this time around. My base red may seem a bit brite but I asure you, once I mist it with boxcar red and add my wash... it will be dead on. The flash makes the mandable red and the triangle red look the same, when in fact they are many shades apart. They have the same base color though.
You can see all the mods are done, including the desending ramp for the left ear and the ramp on the back aboce the keyholes. I dont know how easy it is to see that detail in these pics due to the green paint and the reflection of the flash, but its there!
I bought 2 types of enamel silver. One that is more of a darker gunmetal to lay down as my base in some spots and mist with the lighter silver to give some of the veriation effects.
This helmet has been alot of fun to work on, and the enamels have been easyer then you would think... no tape pull up folks... not any!
This is partly due to a good primer. I reprimed it before painting with Tamiya Fine surface primer. This is the bomb people. Helps your colors pop too!!!
I will list my colors when I am done and tell you where you can buy them online. But for now... I sleep... and... err... work on my 50 million other projects... and eventualy my own helmet.
Stay tuned, the next update will be with all the silver on it!