My ESB Progress (Scratchmade)

Looks awesome so far! Seeing this makes me want to finish mine.

The Wookie Workshop..Looks great so far!

Are there templates for the ammo belt pouches? And the boxes?

More progress. Painting!


Dent Details. For those who want to know how I made the dent, I just heated up the plastic until it is about to sag, and pressed it back, some parts of the plastic around the dent melted, but with a bit of sanding you can get it looking good again.





Painted Chest Pieces. They are not done yet, as more weathering needs to be applied but they are very close.

very nice work, brother...totally impressed with the the dents and paint job...

I believe that TK-409 has templates on his website for the ammo pouches.

One problem I see with this is that the dents on the left chest armor are not that accurate. The bottom dent should be smaller, but I already painted it so I might not even fill it and "Re-Dent" it. We'll see.

Originally Posted by xfettx

Are there templates for the ammo belt pouches? And the boxes?

This may help, http://www.thedentedhelmet.com/f20/batninjas-ammo-pouch-tutorial-8797/

Final Update for today.

The armor is almost done, with the exception of the Collar, Back, and shoulder armor.

The belly was just finished up and has been weathered.

Without flash (What it looks like normally)


With Flash (Brightens up the armor that what it really is)

I decided to re-do the paint job on this. I didnt have correct colors at the time and was messing around with different colors, darkening methods, etc. But hopefully some time this week Ill get around to painting these pieces.

My first craptastic painjob, has turned into what I think a 90 percent accurate set of armor, in terms of damage placement, and scratch sizes. This will be redone again for a third time to see if I can get the proper colors.

The yellow is too bright, the green is too off, and the weathering, is alright, but not that great. I would say this is better than my attempt before. This was all done topically, and I am absolutely satisfied with the way it turned out, since, I am not too good at topical paintjobs.

looks good. what green did you use?

Nice job on the armour painting, but I hate to break it to you, that's actually the ROTJ weathering scheme

I like the second attempt better bruv... but I must say that your topic title says ESB progress yet you seem to have opted for the ROTJ paint job?

Yea, at first I was going to make a full ESB fett but now Im going SE.

Ahh that makes sense now?

Originally Posted by Mojo-Fett

Ahh that makes sense now?

Well isnt the SE Fett, ROTJ armor, with ESB helmet?

nice work, ESB/SE whatever, it turned out great for just messing around.

Thanks for the comment Ben.

My technique wasnt all that great considering I lost the trigger on my airbrush, so I couldnt paint in the burn marks, and weathering with my AB. What I did was just grind graphite powder and use my fingers to just rub it in there to add the burn marks. Problem there is that when I add the clear coat, it soaks up most of the thinner layers of weathering, making it look plain.


Off to home depot for some proper rattlecan colors.

Originally Posted by 987654321a

Well isn't the SE Fett, ROTJ armor, with ESB helmet?

Yes it is bruv and I wasn't being funny... I just didn't get the paint job with the title?

wow, nice work, makes me want rurning to walmart to buy a trash can ^_^ (i know it sounds silly, but that the idea right??)

Looks like you're improving each time, nice work.

^^^ Thanks guys.

My next attempt will be with my airbrush colors mixed and matched to get a very accurate color

MOJO FETT!!!!! THANK YOU FOR ALL THE HELP!!!!

This is my third and final attempt and I am absolutely satisfied with how this looks!

It was all done with an AB, with the excemption of the yellow which is topical.










Pictures do not do this justice at all. The center piece and the right chest armor is not done yet and has not been started yet. It is being stripped of its old paint.

Thank you guys again for all the help!

Wow! That looks great. Is the Fett emblem a decal?

It is not a decal necesarilly. It is really made from one of those sheets of label paper, the larger ones. and its cut to size.

Wow!
If you don't mind me saying bro... loads better than your first version?
Also if it's not to late, you may wanna move your emblem a little to the right as you look at it. It's a little too close the edge (check pics)

Other than that, get the remainder of the chest painted then do a complete mist with heavily thinned grime all over the them to bring it all together and take some of the white away from the emblem...

PM sent.

Alright guys here is a pretty big update for me. I got the left chest piece done and all that is needed is for me to make the center piece.






And Gav, I toned down the decal

that turned out great! each time I check out your thread it honestly makes me want to push myself harder and do better. seriously great job you are doing.

Thanks for the comment bud!

More progress, I got the center piece done and I added some more small details to the rest of the armor. My camera is not too great in capturing the true color, but looking at this armor in sunlight, I would say that it is pretty close to the on screen armor. The pictures, make the colors brighter than what they really are. If I had a DSLR I could cap the true color of this. For now I tried taking a picture with a longer exposure in a darker room, and the armors green looks like in real life, but the yellow around the damage looks orange..... Sigh....I spent 200+ for a camera that captures details well but not the color.


As you can see, the light in my room brings out more of a brighter green.



The center piece looks darker


Finally one color that looks true to life in this pic....the yellow



Now for the dark room/exposure pics with a dim fluorescent light hitting it slightly
The armor color should be a tiny hint greener in this pic but it is as accurate as I can get it. Now the over exposure time really makes the yellow look orange.




Hey Art...Buddy.... .... wanna trade cameras?????


Let me know what you think guys, and I am not really stressing out about this just so I can convey the message "Oh I did this paintjob 100% accurate". Because, I didn't. There are more people out there that are better than me at armor painting [cough]Gav[/cough], and quite honestly, there are some areas I would like to correct, but this armor is officially retired from repainting, etc. I am only trying to post accurate pictures of what it looks like IRL, just so I can get better input on what needs to be added...toned down...cut... trimmed... etc.

In due time some of you SD comic con-ers will see this and I can get some input then.

K rant mode off, and back to studying...

Hey bud, I think you have done a stand up job on this and with scratch built armour too... and as for the yellow (without flash) looks pretty good as my yellow looked exactly the same.
I like the way you've started to put in some of the finer scratch details in too.. don't forget the right side of the ab plate (pm sent).

Oh and p.s. you posted the right chest plate twice instead of the centre diamond...

Great work... Scratch builds are always fun to watch.

impressive bro! Keep up the good work

Originally Posted by Mojo-Fett

Oh and p.s. you posted the right chest plate twice instead of the centre diamond...

Ooops... Ill post the diamond in a later update.


and thanks for the comments guys. Much appreciated.

Hey what trash can did you pick up?? the armor look thick enough, really nice ^_^

Go to the Trash can armor thread, by AFFO$. He has pics of what it looks like and the name.

Good luck!

man those different but subtle shades of green and black are just too darn awesome!!! that is some impressive painting!!

Good work man!!!!!!!!congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow! That is some excellent work there. Very impressive!

Thanks Gav, for the scuff mark reference

And suprisingly in natural light the color looks more true to life.





Still have to tone it down with fine grade wire wool.

Update!

Got the left shoulder close to done. Still have to add the white scuff mark, and weather the decal a little bit more.

Good work man

Update! I used the collar armor from my custom and it will be painted sometime this week if I can get the right paint, in pollyscale.

very nice, makes me want to start on my armor...i've been just watching for so long

Those look awesome!

Hey friend your work improves day by day, congratulations!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the comments guys, I didnt get any work done on the kidney piece, nor the collar armor, but I will do so tomorow.

Man you the scratchmade king! Each time I check your thread it inspires me for mine.

Here is a pic with the repainted chest diamond.