Recent content by Grimstuff

Great post, sticky material. One thing I'll add is to not discount a good old single-action airbrush too. I honestly prefer using my Paasche H for most jobs, it's a fantastic simple workhorse that with the widest nozzle can lay down almost as much paint as a small paint gun, and is much more...

Could likely just dab a line of bondo over the edges that have the lifting that creates the seam and then square them up with a flat sanding block. Keeps the ears seperate and as long as the helmet's ear surface is also flat should mate up perfect. I've done that tons of times to get sharper...

A pre-sand is also just good for a more solid mechanical adhesion. Harbor Freight's sandable primer is usually my go to for print lines, that stuff lays on so thicc it's essentially a sprayable bondo. Only one that doesn't gum up sandpaper when you lay it on thick either.

If you're still struggling with this, try checking your print settings in the actual printer control panel too (when you click preferences or advanced settings in the windows print dialogue), aka the Brother interface, you could have a scaling setting applied there that's separate from the...

There's specialty products you can get like smooth-on's XTC-3D which is pretty much just a self-leveling resin coatings. But yeah I've always just been cheap and simple about it and sand and prime the hell out of it. I'll generally start it off with a coarse 80-100 grit just to take down the...

Potentially your print settings are set to an incorrect paper size or weird margin settings. I'm assuming you've just tried a 100% or 'actual size' print too? I would think that would print it properly regardless of the paper setting. You could also try an alternative PDF reader like...

Yeah at this point it's getting a bit confused to see where discussion on the new Fett paintjobs is intended. I'm seeing a lot of spread between the original trilogy Fett helm/armor boards and The Mandalorian section. Not to mention stuff like the Deathwatch and NightOwls which are technically...

It seems to have physical pitting under the fresh paint still, so you'll likely want to brush stipple the whole helmet with bondo then lightly sand it to get a similar effect. Paints colors you'll most likely just have to eyeball it.

I almost always get my model paints on ebay. If you find a seller with the whole line they'll almost always combine shipping.

Great collection. I so wish I had the space to display full suits.

From my old build thread: ~10 min @ 300 degrees. Cant remember if I adjusted that as I did more though.

Yeah that looks a good bit thick for airbrushing in the video, but hell, with a wide enough nozzle and enough PSI, most things are sprayable. If you're gettin it on and you're liking it, then you're doing good. I think I made that exact recipe too lol.

I'll almost surely be throwing it up for free on thingverse, just gotta tweak some things to make it easier to work with. Like namely getting the connection of the rings to the base layer just right so they can be snapped off easily so you don't have to individually cut em all off. Make it too...

One of yours was the very first paint-up thread I fawned over as a reference on here. And I'm sure you've helped many hundreds of nameless others who've never made accounts but still looked to you when painting their own kits. Keep on keepin on!

He may have shipped it first class international which can not have tracking. Cant remember what it displays if you try to enter the label ID of a package like that into a tracker, I'd assume an error, but maybe it defaults to no a no scan message like that. But yeah in general "Shipping Label...