Lowberg's ROTJ SE Build
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lowberg
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Progress progress progress. Painted the base coat of all my green armor. I used 2 different Tamiya Greens: Deep Green was the first color I did and then misted pretty heavily with Olive Drab. This is just the base coat I will be using. I will be doing all the damage first, before lightly misting additional weathering colors (browns, blacks) which will shift the final color.
I found the most straight-on angles of each of the SE chest armor pieces from the SW Celebration IV gallery, and printed them out at the closest scale I could get to match my MinuteFett armor. Using Saral transfer paper, I stenciled the damage on (at least the major landmarks) to get pretty accurate positioning and sizing.
It's definitely going to be tricky to nail the colors, because it changes so much with lighting. Even here when held up under the exact same lighting over the exact same table in the above photo, it now looks more olive drab green lol.
I found the most straight-on angles of each of the SE chest armor pieces from the SW Celebration IV gallery, and printed them out at the closest scale I could get to match my MinuteFett armor. Using Saral transfer paper, I stenciled the damage on (at least the major landmarks) to get pretty accurate positioning and sizing.
It's definitely going to be tricky to nail the colors, because it changes so much with lighting. Even here when held up under the exact same lighting over the exact same table in the above photo, it now looks more olive drab green lol.
AlphaCloneFett
Hunter
You're on the right path with the greens!
lowberg
Hunter
Thanks, ya know I stress a lot about colors and the green but the fact of the matter is this thing is just a friggin chameleon lol
These are all the exact same piece of armor photographed by different cameras with different flashes and lighting (actually 3 of these are from the exact same exhibit display) So I'm not going to stress too much. Get it in the ballpark and it is what it is.
These are all the exact same piece of armor photographed by different cameras with different flashes and lighting (actually 3 of these are from the exact same exhibit display) So I'm not going to stress too much. Get it in the ballpark and it is what it is.
chondro788
Hunter
You are absolutely right about the colors. I think your greens look great. I'm looking forward to seeing it with the damage painted on!
lowberg
Hunter
Yellow and silver damage on! Some small touch ups to do once it dries fully, somehow smudged some yellow with my hand on top of the left chest lol Also my Silver fought me a lot on the bigger parts, usually goes on nice and level but maybe it thickened up over time. It's not too bad though. After some touchups, its on to weathering colors!
Also...Amazing chest decal from ShortFuse. Went on so easy and looks so good!
Also...Amazing chest decal from ShortFuse. Went on so easy and looks so good!
lowberg
Hunter
Airbrush misting/weathering done. I tried to really restrain myself to do a "less is more" approach.
Misted with browns and black. The rest of the weathering and scratches I will do topically.
There's a few areas that have a decent splattering of black that I'm going to do topically either by carefully flicking dry brush or just using a micro brush. I tried in my test runs to do this with sputtering the airbrush but it's just too hard to control where the splatter ends up
Misted with browns and black. The rest of the weathering and scratches I will do topically.
There's a few areas that have a decent splattering of black that I'm going to do topically either by carefully flicking dry brush or just using a micro brush. I tried in my test runs to do this with sputtering the airbrush but it's just too hard to control where the splatter ends up
lowberg
Hunter
Shoulder bells painted! This one was actually pretty easy to get the colors right.
I used Archive X SP Armor Yellow as a base (Which looked super wrong by itself and worried me a bit lol)
Then gave a healthy misting with Archive X Rust and then all the sudden it just dropped right into the proper shade of golden yellow.
ShortFuse to the rescue again with his awesome decal. Need to weather the white up a bit on it with some rust
Next up is going over my armor for fine micro weathering/scratches ect.
Right on schedule with my build... I was hoping to wrap up the armor this month and get into the Jetpack next month.
I used Archive X SP Armor Yellow as a base (Which looked super wrong by itself and worried me a bit lol)
Then gave a healthy misting with Archive X Rust and then all the sudden it just dropped right into the proper shade of golden yellow.
ShortFuse to the rescue again with his awesome decal. Need to weather the white up a bit on it with some rust
Next up is going over my armor for fine micro weathering/scratches ect.
Right on schedule with my build... I was hoping to wrap up the armor this month and get into the Jetpack next month.
chondro788
Hunter
Nice Job, those look great!
lowberg
Hunter
Scuffs and scratches, and grime added! Put some subtle highlighting around the chest emblem where it looks like a masking artifact exposing lesser weathered green around the edges. Also some lighter green scuffs on the top of the left chest to simulate original paint color showing through
