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YES! Go for it man! Let's see your scratch build come to life.

 

Thanks bro! Means a lot to me! 

 

 

 

UPDATE 26 FEB:

 

Today I had some spare time at hand so I took the opportunity to work on the right ear. Yesterday I already found a way to apply the "arch" decal on the ear cap. I did this by hand drawing the arch on a piece of paper with the help of the WF template for the RF ear cap. I scanned it in and converted it to a bitmap so I could easily colour in the white arch and print it on my deskjet:

 

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Just like I did for the left ear with the Count Dookie template, I cut out the arch and glued it onto the cap.

 

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In the process I added some more gray and silver damage to the ear cap.

 

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Next I had to find a way to do the nine stripes on the metal part of the cap. This was tricky, cuz I couldn't find any rub-on transfers here in town. Then I thought of something a fellow TDH-er mentioned:

 

Chris, thanks for the tip man! I decided to paint on the stripes by hand. I used a lot of references, as you can see from this desktop shot:

 

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Thanks to Superjedi for the reference pics! (I printed them from the forum thread) They proved to be quite invaluable, and a treat to look at! :love

The result was this:

 

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As you can see I also painted on the dot and the T in a sort of weathered way (personal touch):

 

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For now I'll give the ear, and my eyes, a rest.

 

Thanks for the positive input guys!

 

 

To be continued... 8)