The gauntlets skip a step, going from the masked silver directly to the final color. Here I used precious Floquil Wisconsin Central Maroon, as the Boxcar looked too red to my eye. Two to three coats of the Floquil, which did not need thinning, then demasking and weathering with light sprays of Humbrol #33 black. I had a bit of work using the disassembled Glenross Dental Expander replica from toolguy301, but the fault was completely my own. I ordered the disassembled version thinking I would reassemble it and have a better looking replica, but the material toolguy301 uses proved much harder to work with than I anticipated, and I ended up truncating most of the connecting rods in order to get the expander reassembled. The MachineCraft rocket required a little adjustment to add a bevel at the front of the ridges on the central section (as seen here: http://www.thedentedhelmet.com/gallery/boba-fett-rotj-screen-captures/p11316-boba-fett-return-of-the-jedi-costume-hd-screen-captures.html), but then only needed masking then black acrylic paint leftover from the boots, demasking and a wash with dilute acrylic black over the nose cone. I used the same paint on the tips of the two colored darts on the right gauntlet. As an aside, I tried the oft mentioned coffee soak for my gauntlet tubing, going for a couple of weeks in brewed coffee with fresh grounds, all to no avail, possibly due to the “chemical resistant” tubing I’d found. I ended washing the insides with burnt umber/straw mixed dilute acrylic paint also leftover from my boot weathering, and that finally managed to “age” them a bit.
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In the pictures of the gauntlets open, you can see the velcro strap I’ve mounted inside each to help stabilize them and keep them from slipping on my skinny noodle arms (the metal, especially the rocket, makes the gauntlets very heavy and prone to slipping).
