Just some quick lil updates. Been doing a lot of research into painting over the past few days as I start getting close to hopefully actually getting one of these buckets done up. Painting and weathering is actually one of my weaker skillsets though, and you can't get much more advanced than the ESB Fett helmet, so I've been checking out a lot of your guy's paint threads to hopefully get ready for it. Biggest hurdle so far has been getting a solid paint list together. I've seen the Humbrol list referenced around quite a bit, but I wasn't sure how hard they'd be able to get here in the states. I actually did a whole bunch of research into converting the colors into other brands or even mixing my own before I found a seller on ebay with the entire Humbrol line for pretty cheap shipping, so that problem ended up solving itself. Now just to wait for em to arrive all the way from Poland.
While I've been waiting on that, I got the buckets all primed. Dunce on left, and two production helms in-case I mess one up, one happy little family.
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Also tried to make some visors, but it seems the 0.09 inch acrylic I got at Lowes is too thick to thermoform well. I just can't get enough heat to stay into it to evenly bend, so it comes out barely curved and kinda wavy.
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I'll have to try to find something thinner I guess, but not so much it's paper-like. Suppose worse comes to worse I'll scavenge from some cheap face shields.