where the last couple of days have been all about the fail... tonight went well!
in addition to getting the duster done for mr. snowy, i re-painted all of the blue parts of my armor with a better shade of blue, and started cleaning up the first of my pistols.
i've poured both, and done some basic sanding / drilling on one of them:
the belt sander tomorrow will take out the big chunks, like the sprue from the pour hole.
and here's the helmet now:
and here is before:
the reason for the repaint was realizing that he was a distinctly darker blue than the 501st clones that he leads. there are a couple of scenes in the clone wars with him and the 501st in the same frame, and he's really not at all the same. the action figure in the before pic is actually pretty much spot on, near as i can tell. a little too close to navy, but in that general vein.
i'm much much happier with it now!
tomorrow night i make the holsters (new mold is done cooking!) and hopefully wrap this project up!