Lowberg's ROTJ SE Build

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.


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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.

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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.


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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.

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You're on the right path with the greens!
 
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.

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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!


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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.

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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

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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

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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.
 
Thanks ShortFuse! I'm going to do all the damage topically but I'm a little intimidated by the masking and order of operations for the main colors colors. I see you did White -> Blue -> Red - > Yellow . How did that order work out for you?

I think you’re doing the right thing by doing the damage topically. I had some difficulty with some paint peeling when removing the masking tape due to the paint not adhering properly to the silver undercoat.

The amount of masking is a pain, but the end result is well worth the effort. The order of colors just happened to work that way. Ordinarily I like to paint the colors lightest to darkest, but I didn’t have the yellow I wanted at the time and just went ahead and did the other colors first. Honestly, it probably doesn’t matter what order you go in. I just do it that way because I like to overlap the the lighter colors a little bit onto where the darker colors will be so there won’t be any gaps where the colors meet and the darker colors cover the lighter better. Not sure if that makes any sense. Lol

What paint will you be using?
 
Same Rust oleum ones you used, Nantucket blue, harvest peach, and same red. I liked your results so much I thought there's no reason to fart around trying to airbrush the main colors and mix paints up. I am going to take a small leap of faith and use the base white primer coat as my white. I hit the thrusters with it already and like the look of it so it's worth a shot. It will be a good test on the thrusters to see how it reacts with my Tamiya paints for shading and weathering.
 

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