and super-quick paint job is done! i knew this was a temporary helmet so i cut a lot of corners and flew through the whole thing, from silver to done in 1 evening.
side note: i love the pic on my laptop screen in that photo. i thought i had screwed something up... the mandible on the side i hacked sticks out a lot further from the top of the visor than i would have thought it should. but that photo confirms that the original is warped like that!
i simplified the back quite a bit... the weathering shouldn't be all silver. there should be a sort of grey gradient across it. but this is a quickie.
visor is on its way, and the missing bit of the rangefinder is sitting in some silicone right now. i'm hoping to make an rotj friendly replacement for the battery cover.
overall, not bad for a single day paint job! silver went down before work, and the rest of the colors went down over the course of 6 hours or so.
i did do layered weathering, but rather than subtle color blending to finish it off, i just misted with black and grey, and rubbed some graphite dust into a few places.
the ears aren't weathered yet. not going to do that until the final helmet.
no mq-1 in the back yet. also not bothering on this one. i'll put some black mesh in there and call it done. the one from the MR still needs to be repainted.
i was experimenting with new colors. i'm pretty happy with how it came out. i'll probably use the same on my "real" one, just with better weathering.