General Mid-Budget ESB built
- Thread starter Notlewis
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Notlewis
Active Hunter
Thank you so much for your kind words!
Notlewis
Active Hunter
Took a little break... had some health problems, but everything will be fine.
Waiting for the boots with toe spikes from Landher and started to order the first bunch of humbrol colours. Still have to calculate how much of each colour I´ll need. I think better more, than less.
Waiting for the boots with toe spikes from Landher and started to order the first bunch of humbrol colours. Still have to calculate how much of each colour I´ll need. I think better more, than less.
Matty Matt
Active Hunter
Looking great. Sorry to hear about your health problems. Hopefully nothing serious. Backplate looks good but you might want to curve it a little bit. It looks pretty flat in those pics. Anyway, keep it up.
Where can you buy the helmet?Thank you very much! No, I´ll buy the helmet, my skills are not good enough to build it myself.
Notlewis
Active Hunter
Thanks mate! I´ll try to curve it a little more on sunday. Then I´ll work on the connection between the back and collar armor.
Notlewis
Active Hunter
I´m still thinking about, where to buy. I live in germany, and the best would be somewhere nearby, from the UK maybe to avoid the expensive custom import taxes when buying from overseas.
Notlewis
Active Hunter
Next step was drilling the holes for the screws of the shoulder studs and connecting the collar with the back plate.
You can see that the screws seem to be a little bit too long. But I´ll also drill holes through the vest, so the armor will be attached to vest in the shoulder areas. As I mentioned before, the velcro on the shoulders will be shortened.
You can see that the screws seem to be a little bit too long. But I´ll also drill holes through the vest, so the armor will be attached to vest in the shoulder areas. As I mentioned before, the velcro on the shoulders will be shortened.
Notlewis
Active Hunter
Thank you very much, mcfarlj3! Good luck with your build. Doubling the sintra is extra work and sometimes a little bit tricky, but it looks great and is solid.
Notlewis
Active Hunter
Weathering time: gave the boots and one of the side pouches a try...
On the left the clean version. I used a mixture of yellow and brown acryl and a lot of water. Also black acryl and water for a "dirty-wash", brushing the colour onto the surface. I repeat it till it gets darker and darker. I also used black shoe cream to darken the middle front part of the boots.
Here both boots weathered:
The side pouches:
Both still clean.
I used the same colour mixture.
Side-by-side comparision: left clean, right dirty.
So, this was the first step. I thing I´ll do it much more "heavy-weathered", in little steps. Even thinking about using rattle can spray. Trying to find some black primer in my local store. I read about this in one of the older threads and think this is a great idea, because it seems to be not so "dark" like using pure black spray.
On the left the clean version. I used a mixture of yellow and brown acryl and a lot of water. Also black acryl and water for a "dirty-wash", brushing the colour onto the surface. I repeat it till it gets darker and darker. I also used black shoe cream to darken the middle front part of the boots.
Here both boots weathered:
The side pouches:
Both still clean.
I used the same colour mixture.
Side-by-side comparision: left clean, right dirty.
So, this was the first step. I thing I´ll do it much more "heavy-weathered", in little steps. Even thinking about using rattle can spray. Trying to find some black primer in my local store. I read about this in one of the older threads and think this is a great idea, because it seems to be not so "dark" like using pure black spray.
Mandalorian2112
Jr Hunter
Looks awesome! I'm working on an ESB Fett as well and I often check this thread for help.
Notlewis
Active Hunter
Thanks, mate! That motivates me!
Notlewis
Active Hunter
All these little pieces... coming together, step by step...
Here you can see my work on the greeblie/launcher for the right gauntlet.
The base is an old plastic pen.
Used a small saw to shorten the pen.
Then used a heat gun to form it into an oval shape.
Filling the hole.
After it dryed, I sprayed grey primer to see the imperfections and sanded the surface until it´s smooth. Now I could drill a hole.
With a small file I created the lines and started to cut and sand it into shape.
Black paint time!
Now, I can use gel superglue to secure it on the gauntlet.
Here the result:
Here you can see my work on the greeblie/launcher for the right gauntlet.
The base is an old plastic pen.
Used a small saw to shorten the pen.
Then used a heat gun to form it into an oval shape.
Filling the hole.
After it dryed, I sprayed grey primer to see the imperfections and sanded the surface until it´s smooth. Now I could drill a hole.
With a small file I created the lines and started to cut and sand it into shape.
Black paint time!
Now, I can use gel superglue to secure it on the gauntlet.
Here the result:
