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All those pieces then get lightly sanded (and I mean really light; just the pressure from a bent strip of that 2000 grit paper) to keep everything super smooth, and have the damage masked again. Work diverges now based on color of the next coat. The green on the armor is 2-3 coats of Humbrol #117, with just a hint of black #33 added for the diamond (I think this “diamond is darker” idea may have crept in from an ESB thread I can’t find now, but to my eye it looks like a slightly different shade in some of the screen captures and many exhibit shots – might just be lighting or going blind...), and over a blast of #78 masked off on the abdomen plate (I chose to omit the #76 as the raised damage on the left chest panel does not appear in all the versions, and especially not in the shots I picked to use as a guide (like this: http://www.thedentedhelmet.com/gallery/boba-fett-rotj-screen-captures/p11260-boba-fett-return-of-the-jedi-costume-hd-screen-captures.html). Here I followed DeathProof’s detailed colors and techniques (http://www.thedentedhelmet.com/f20/deathproofs-rotj-fett-bh-32794-a-48471), with some colors from terminal fettler’s AOSW write up (http://www.thedentedhelmet.com/f20/aosw-humbrol-colour-list-36590) as well as the MindMeister Color Map (https://www.mindmeister.com/113525354/boba-fett-paint-colors). After demasking, and weathering with airbrushed black and colored pencils, I applied the Darth Voorhees stencil on the right chest, and separately weathered that using a sharp knife and some pencil shavings. This followed by a final covering of Rust-olium Master’s Touch 2x Ultra Cover matte clear coat.

 

I didn’t really like the result with the diamond; the depressed central area didn’t demask well, and the edges just wouldn’t look perpendicular, so I made a central rectangle out of some spare plastic sheeting, painted it with the Humbrol #11 silver, and glued it into the depression (I think this more resembles the promotional and later exhibit photos, and I am much happier with the result).


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