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Part 2: Painting/Lower half


After silver and clearcoat (and metal effect mentioned before), I used:

  • Masking fluid (Winsor&Newton), applied with a small brush or toothpick to mask the spots that should stay silver.
  • Revell Aqua Color "Gunship Grey" for grey base, applied with airbrush. Once dried, rubbing off masking fluid. Outcome:

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  • Yet again, use masking fluid on all spots that should stay silver or grey.
  • I mixed my own custom Boba Fett green, consinsting of (all Revell Aqua Color):
    • Sea Green (bluish green, shake well as blue and green parts tend to seperate)
    • Gunship grey (to reduce color saturation)
    • Yellow (to reduce the blue tone and lighten up color)
    • White (I should have done that to make the color lighter, however, mixing and matching colors is incredibly hard. Colors may look completely differently, depending on whether they are wet, dry, viewed under natural or artificial light sources, with/without gloss clearcoat... Especially as green ist the color the human eye can distinguish the most shades!)
  • Actually I mixed in white for a seperate layer beneath main green layer for a weathered effect.
  • Black (diluted with water) for several burn marks.
  • Rattle can clearcoat for finish and protection. Sanded with 3M Scotch Brite until matte again. Revell Matte Clearcoat as I tried to lighten up the color (it gives a milky/opaque finish).

Outcome:

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