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Well, its about time for me to start working on my own stuff again. Gotta get this bucket done. I will post pics of the progress, unless it gets bad
Ok, here she is before. Its a standard DP 96-
First cut out the crummy stock visor-
Then I sand her a bit and hit it with a coat of primer-
Then I apply the silver-
Now that's some silver! Looks good homie.
yeah! keep going!
Ok, got the Panzer green and stripes on-
Lookin' good, lookin' good. Don't stop now, keep the pics comin'.
So far so good. I am very interested. BTW, what kind of silver is that?
The silver is actually bumper chrome spraypaint, its made by Plasti-kote. The stuff is awesome, I highly recomend it. It would also be perfect for a Jango. Ok, time for more updates-
Panzer olive green applied along with the kill stripes
Then some Euro dark green
Upper cheeks done in PRR Brunswick green
And the mandables done with a mix of Boxcar red, with a little bright red added
Looks Great so far....
ROTJ or ESB??
I am going for a ROTJ costume. I'm sure this won't be high on the list of awesome painted buckets on this forum, but I am at least hoping for something better than it was stock. Well, I put another coat of red on it that it needed, you can see in the pics. I gotta do the ears yet. Almost time for the real fun to begin- battle damage. Of course looking at it, makes me wanna start with the dent first. I'm sure everyone gets that
nice and tight colours you got !! keep going!!
mrgr8ness, I sent you a PM about your helmet. just a couple simple questions that these people on another forum couldn't seem to answer.
Your helmet looks great too. good job.
good work! keep it up! and are you also planning to flair your helmet?
PM returned IntraFett. Thanks for the feedback guys. The flair will be better with the visor installed.
Well, got a little bit of damage done, along with the weathering. I used a packet of RIT dye for the weathering- $1.99. Mix part of the packet with water to create a wash, leave the rest of the packet as powder to use in place of pastel powder. Then I gave a misting of grey and black spraypaint. Got most of the main damage done to the mandables and cheeks, still have to put in the fine scratches. Sigh..I only hope this is turning out better than stock-
Oh and for those who may be wondering...yes I use my kitchen table as a workbench, and yes....my wife hates it
Keep going man! Looking good!
Looking really good there!!!! Great idea with the rit dye for weathering!! Looks like its doing the trick. I also use the bumper chrome from plastic-coat for my base silver. Had good results also. Keep up the great work
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Very nice...
Hehe "...Kitchen table as a workbench..." and I thought I was the only one!!! Seriously...nice job so far...I take it you are painting a ROTJ scheme? Your base colors looked tight and so far the battle damage you got going looks good. The scratches are the hardest and lengthiest part to do on either of the helmets cause so many of us want them to be dead on accurate. Keep up the good work and keep us posted. BTW...nice call on the RIT dye for making a wash...never would have thought of that.
Thanks for the compliments guys. I was afraid I might have gone too dirty and weathered..but is there such a thing?
No WAY...Looks great..!!Originally Posted by mrgr8ness
Yea, I am really getting close now. Painting this bucket is wearing me out. Really kind of wish I bought a fiberglass helmet right off the bat, I dread going through this again. Anyways, time for some more update pics. I got the dome, cheeks and mandables pretty much done. Even got all my scratches in there. I am pretty happy with it, coming out better than I expected. Can't wait to put the visor in and try it on. Still have to do the back which is about 1/3 done right now. I tried to position the helmet in the shape it would be with the visor installed, and show the flare it will have-
Not sure why the first pic is so small. I will fix it tonight. I also took all these without a flash, it seemed to show the detail better
lookin' good!
Yea your progress is looking great. You should be quite happy with it once it's all done.
Your wife should speak to mine
i think they might have something in common.
Oh and for those who may be wondering...yes I use my kitchen table as a workbench, and yes....my wife hates it
AWESOME man, awesome !!!
Bumper chrome spray rules !!!! I love that it is ultra fast dry
I NEVER would be able to use the kitchentable as "bench", my girl would kill me. But I understand her, I am using my PC table and I HATE myself. I am usualy running out of space within seconds and it always is a hell of a mess
Yeah, I know that all too well...
I cant paint where I live at all... my husband would kill me!
I have to go over to my Dad's house and take over his garage... which I have been doing every weekend for a while now...
mrgr8ness -
AWESOME job on the bucket there! I think you're doing a fantastic job.
I hear you all about the dreaded "finding the right place to paint"! I can't paint inside the house... Can't paint in the garage (no space)
So, I paint in the backyard (being careful and watching that I don't hit the house.) or I paint in the front yard. However, painting in the front yard is an interesting concept. I paint out there because it receives full sun most of the day.
But, when it comes to painting certain items (blasters) Watch when you do it. I've had a mail carrier see me and ask if the gun I was working on (Biker Scout Blaster Pistol & also my DL-44) were real. I can understand their point of view, but I'm also thinking to myself, since when have you EVER seen a gun that splits in half down the middle?
Sorry for hi-jacking the thread... just felt the need to share my expireneces!
The more I see ROTJ buckets, The more I want to paint one.
Your looks great
It's looking good. I need to get chrome bumper paint now. It seems to be very effective.
Nice work mrgr8ness! keep it up!
i can't use spray paint either. i accidentally sprayed my aunt's car one time while painting some stuff.
Ok, time for some finished product pics
Thank god we had a sunny morning yesterday. Nothing beats natural light.
looks awesome! i'm glad to see more rotj love going on here lately
that paint job is freakin amazing!!!
well done!!
I'd only re-install the visor, to make the bottom visor part narrower.
Thanks RBF, your bucket gave me the inspiration to go for a ROTJ instead of ESB. Yeah, I did go just slightly wider at the bottom. It gave it just the flair it needed. The narrower I made the visor, the less flair I had. Hard to balance it. The flair in the pics actually looks horrible compared to what it looks like in person. Seems like pictures, somehow make your flair disappear.
it all depends on the angle of the photo, the focal length of the camera, and how close the camera is to the subject. the same helmet can look completely different just by moving the camera a few feet.
Nice job mrgr8ness!
I love that lid!! I agree, the photos do make the flare less visible for some reason- heres one of mine-
Reviving this thread from the past, but I bought this helmet from mrgr8ness in the Cargo Hold about 3 years ago and have been doing 501st events with it ever since. I always have chosen the Don Post sized helmets since I'm skinny with slender shoulders, and these seem to fit more proportionately on me. I had a DP 95 painted as ESB before I picked up this DP 96 off of mrgr8ness, done up in his killer ROTJ paintjob version.
The reason I'm bumping this thread is that this weekend I did some upgrades. I got a new ROTJ rangefinder and ear cap from Fettpride recently and this weekend painted them up, which resulted in repainting both earpieces on the helmet using the M.O.M. pictures. The left earpiece I couldn't get the paint look as smooth as the real one because I don't own an airbrush and had to freehand them with acrylic paints, but the rangefinder side earpiece came out pretty decent compared to the real thing. Painted with 3 colors, used sandpaper to get the ROTJ scrapes, sealed with a spray of Testors Dullcote as usual.
In case you care FYI, I did paint the armor and jetpack with an airbrush, using the Rogue Studios color list. Just don't have one right now to paint ear caps with.
This weekend I also installed a self contained voice amp system in the helmet. No wires running to amplifiers in the saddlebags for me. It's the same old school system as the first TKs I met a decade ago were running in their helmets...... torn apart Radio Shack amp wired to 2 laptop speakers.
I drilled completely through the holes inside the Borden connector on the cheek and installed one speaker there. For the other speaker I drilled one tiny hole in the rectangular indent on the mandible on the other side of the helmet and placed it behind there.
This is the exact same type of mounting system BobaFettish had in his helmet years ago if you remember. In fact, the guy that wired BobaFettish's helmet for him was the guy who I got the amp from for my own helmet.
The Fettpride rangefinder is taller than the Don Post one, which I assume is more screen accurate.
Here's a pic of it held in the same position before I painted it and put fake LEDs in the top. The FP ear cap is also thinner than the DP, so that too makes it appear more accurate. The FP one is of course slightly larger since it's made for the movie-sized helmets, so I have a slight overlap on each side of where the DP ear cap fit flush, but not many people would care if they saw me trooping, I don't think.
Here's this afternoon in natural sunlight as the before picture.....
.....and here's the after picture. It's dark out now, so don't mind the backdrop.
Gone is the fat DP ear cap..
....and now it's got the FP ear cap with repainted M.O.M. style earpiece!
New clear ROTJ rangefinder!
My attempt at brush painting the M.O.M. ears. On the rangefinder side I used Burnt Umber and Dark Burnt Umber mostly, and just a tad of Black. On the other ear I used a wash of Charcoal / Black / Water. Then sandpapered all the scrapes and scratches in, and sealed it with the Dullcote.
Just taking mrgr8ness' ROTJ helmet paint job up a notch. The helmet also came from him with a Bobamaker visor installed, in case anyone wanted to know.
Last edited by Mr Fett; 05-04-2010 at 12:35 PM.
While mine isn't perfect, it was my first attempt ever trying to paint an ROTJ earpiece. Here's the real M.O.M. helmet. Next time I have to paint one up, I'll get airbrush access and try to make the weathering match closer. In fact, maybe next time I'll try to paint up an entire ROTJ helmet myself.
Last edited by Mr Fett; 05-04-2010 at 12:35 PM.
I like your upgrade!
Can you show us how you added your speaker system? What does the inside look like? I'm about to do a basic mic to battery powered amp/ speaker setup. How have you done it self contained? (I'm trying to get myself set up for CV that's why I'm interested) Thank you!
It's the guts out of an old Radio Shack 32-2015 Voice Amplification system. You don't use the casing or the speaker or the battery pack, just the electronics parts. The original system ran off 6 AA batteries, at 1.5 volts each equals 9 volts, so we swapped out the big AA pack for a single 9v connector. Then put the electronic board guts inside a little plastic box to protect them. The plastic box gets velcroed to the inside of the the helmet. I chose the back left side to mount it in. Doesn't hit my head or ear having it there.
Then, take tin snips and cut the headset part that goes around your ears off. You're then left with the little flexible boom mic and the connector. I velcroed this to the right cheek of the helmet, and the boom hangs by your mouth in front of the visor.
The small laptop speakers don't pump out huge amounts of volume, but really I'm just using this system to talk to people who are talking to me, without them having to lean into me to hear me reply to them. You wire the 2 speakers into the original wires for the one speaker that came with the voice amp. Run them in a big loop like this......
Red wire from the voice amp into the red wire of the first speaker. Black wire of the first speaker into the red wire of the second speaker. Then black wire of the second speaker into the black wire of the voice amp, completing the loop.
Instead of gluing the speakers into the helmet, I just taped them in place with that metallic chrome tape used to tape heating pads on the the aquarium walls of reptile or amphibian tanks. I then covered the chrome tape up with some olive drab duct tape I had around, so it wouldn't be so shiny inside my helmet.
The other guy who gave me the layout of this helmet glued his speakers and boom mic right into the helmet. I have pics of his layout I'll email you if you send me your email. He also didn't put the plastic box over his electronics board, but I wanted to protect it some.
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