My Jango Progress

You took the smart way out on the JP Phil. I can attest to it being a pain in the arse to paint. I'm glad it wasnt the Boba pack with all the weathering I had to do. The rest of your stuff is coming along nicely by the way.
 
You took the smart way out on the JP Phil. I can attest to it being a pain in the arse to paint. I'm glad it wasnt the Boba pack with all the weathering I had to do. The rest of your stuff is coming along nicely by the way.

yeah i hear that. i wasn't confident i could do a good job on that haha. i was nervous enough dealing with the helmet. 8)
 
I need some help! I wanted to redo one of my chest plates because i didnt like the finish. So i sanded it down and got rid of everything. Then when i went to prime it it only took to some of the plate leaving the rest wet and the primer was "boiling" up and cracking. Anyone know how i can fix this? I am already on my 3rd coat. should i just try to sand it out?

THANKS!
 
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That's what I did. For whatever reason some of my primer on my thighs spider webbed on me, it was filler primer, so I wet sanded it down and applied my coats slower with more dry time in between.
 
hey 5204, Thanks for the reply. It really is weird. I wetsanded it after i primed it with 400-b sandpaper and i have re-primed it 5 times now. It is slightly better, but now smooth by any means. i was about to just RnB it and give up. what grit did you wet sand it down to?
 
all of my pieces are Rub and buffed at 400 wetsand including the helmet. Do you think i should sand it all off and start over? I'm just concerned I am going to have the same problem i had when i tried to redo the chest piece where it just bubbled, boiled, and spider webbed.
 
ok, i took some pics to show you guys why i wanted to redo some of the pieces. at first it didnt bother me because it looked weathered and nice, but in a flash photo you can see it looks more uneven and smudgy. I don't know..maybe i have been looking at it too long. What do you all think? I would redo them but not after what i had to deal with on the chest piece.



good ? bad ? ugly ?

does it come across as weathering or just looks like ****? :confused

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What did you weather it with? Is it possible to lightly scrape or buff it out? Or does redoing it mean refinishing the whole thing? Maybe you could just Rn'B over it.
 
What did you weather it with? Is it possible to lightly scrape or buff it out? Or does redoing it mean refinishing the whole thing? Maybe you could just Rn'B over it.

The pieces came primed and i just wetsanded it to 400 to match my helmets finished. Then i rub and buffed it the way i thought it was supposed to be done, but it just came out splotchy. I did use acrylic paints to "weather" over all of the pieces in the pictures above, but it didnt help to cover the splotchyness of it. I don't want it mirror shiny, but i also don't really know if i like it like this.

I tried to redo one of the pieces (right breast plate) and I had a terrible time trying to re-prime the second time. I guess I'm just trying to see if anyone knows a good way to fix this. :facepalm
 
I would resand the whole thing again with 400 sandpaper to get the whole paint off. then then primer it again with rustoleum ligh gray primer.

then sand it again with a 600 grit. then primer it again. then sand it with a 800 grit.

It seems like alot to do but its very much worht the results.

The thing you want to accoplish is to almost have a shinny primmer surface to the rubb and buff to attach on.

Remember when your R&Bing you want to do a whole piece at a time. dont do sections. paste a bunch of dabs all over one piece then rubb it over then press really hard with your hand to generate heat to melt the wax on the the piece.

Remember to work fast. do it like a mad man. thats why you have uneven parts cuz this stuff dries quickly.

ulso dont mind the dull parts. remember that this suit is supposed to be nice and gritty looking.

remember that R&B is a wax and it needs to be melted down to a surface or it wont ever dry. The harder you buff with your hand the better.

sircular motions on every piece.

here's a picture of a well beat up jango chest piece.

see how messy it looks.

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thanks seeker! i will give it a try. the hardest part to redo is defintiely going to be the knees and the helmet. I will post pictures to show my progress. thanks a lot man.
 
I'm sure most primers would work. I prefer using Painter's Touch Grey Primer found at Home Depot...which is coincidentally a Rustoleum line.
 
Your helmet looks great now. I woulnt touch if i were you.

that's one thing i always notice on some jango, is that that the helmet looks super duper duper duper clean.

I myself have always liked my stuff dirty. That's my personal feeling. I alwasy think of it a dirty cowboy from the western days. those guys live in the dirt and dust only cared for money, drinks, and women. :lol:

Just kidding, but yeah.

I'll will be redoing my whole jango again this year. I wanted to look more beat up. You know, some wear and tear.
 
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