UPDATE: July 16th, 2012
Wow, I fell behind on picture updates! Just got wrapped up in painting.
Got several stages done. First was the final step before the gray misting: the upper cheeks.
Since the upper cheeks on the PP2 receive the same misting treatment as the dome and
lower cheeks, I had to get them done. So I did.
The pics below show the helmet after being misted with gray. There's quite a bit of gray
on this helmet, which really tones down the colors. I tried to match the cloudy patterns
as closely as I could to the reference pics.
Here are a couple of pics that show where I "brought back" some of the silver. I just reapplied it
with my detail brush.
The left cheek.
And finally. . . killstripes!
There were two sections of silver that I waited to complete until after the killstripes were painted. It just
helped me get the positioning a little better than when I painted my own PP2.
Next will be a couple of good coats of Testors dull coat to seal everything, then I'll start masking and misting
the darker gray areas on the dome. That's another long session with masking fluid and tape, so not sure if
I'll get it all done during the week or not. But it's getting there!