Hasbro BS Helmet Facelift and Paint Up

[ShortFuse]

Nice.
Thank you for the explanation.

No problem. Hope it made sense.

 

[ShortFuse]

Looks cool! I'd def go with that out of all of them.
None of ours got close.

You don’t think it looks too blue?

 

[ShortFuse]

I sprayed the paint through airbrush over my brush strokes I did yesterday. Here is that color again indoors. Looks kinda grey. Outside looks more blue. In other light it looks green. Hard to judge with iPhone photos.

 

[ShortFuse]

I think I’ve got he color I need.

 

[ShortFuse]

This is the color I’m going with. Thanks to superjedi for help in deciding. In keeping with the house paint experiment, I color matched the rlm 73. Doesn’t look like what I expected. Perhaps my paint matching technique doesn’t work, but we’ll see how it looks when it’s down with the other colors.

See you on the other side.

 

[jhfagan]

I sprayed the paint through airbrush over my brush strokes I did yesterday. Here is that color again indoors. Looks kinda grey. Outside looks more blue. In other light it looks green. Hard to judge with iPhone photos.
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the dilemma...always.

 

[ShortFuse]

Working on the back panels. Still need some cleaning up to do. A wash should darken the colors down some.

 

[ShortFuse]

Upper and lower cheeks today.

 

[ShortFuse]

Haven’t updated lately, but I have been busy on this project. Here is where I am currently.


Still have a lot of touch up and detail work to do.
The lighting/iPhone camera makes the green look brighter than it actually is.

 

[jhfagan]

Haven’t updated lately, but I have been busy on this project. Here is where I am currently.

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Still have a lot of touch up and detail work to do.
The lighting/iPhone camera makes the green look brighter than it actually is.

Yeah. Can definitely account for lighting making a huge difference how things look.
It will tone down properly when final weathering is applied too.
Looking good so far!

 

[ShortFuse]

Not perfect, but not too bad for house and craft paint.

 

[jhfagan]

Not perfect, but not too bad for house and craft paint.
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I love the green on that.

 

[ShortFuse]

I love the green on that.

Thanks. I didn’t really like it at first, but it’s growing on me.

 

[jhfagan]

I've been playing around in Photoshop with layering swatches and their opacity over each other, and came up with this for ESB green.
It's a combo of Rustoleum Rich Jade Green, Spruce Green and Flat White, with varying opacities and layer placements until it got somewhere close.
Here it is.

 

[Lazerjock]

WOW!!!!!

 

[RamSkirata]

ShortFuse wow! That came out amazing! You can really pat yourself on the back! I like the green too, by the way.

 

[ShortFuse]

Thanks for the kind words, guys.

 

[Chewrocka]

Here are the pieces I plan on adding:

Right ear parts. I already painted them up while waiting on other parts to come in. I wish I would have taken a picture before paint. These were some clean casts by ToEleven (thanks Jay)

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Jay also made me a MQ-1 resin cast and an aluminum borden.
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I also cut a visor I ordered to the funky shape needed to fit.
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Thanks again to ToEleven for supplying me with my random parts requests. He also makes damn good helmet casts.

That’s all for now.

Hey, Im glad I found this post again. Is this new visor black or dark green? I can't find any black replacment visors online.

 

[ShortFuse]

Hey, Im glad I found this post again. Is this new visor black or dark green? I can't find any black replacment visors online.

It’s dark green. Black is, as you have found out is harder to find. I got mine at Grainger.

 

[Chewrocka]

It’s dark green. Black is, as you have found out is harder to find. I got mine at Grainger.

Thanks. Your helmet looked great with the green I may not wait until I find black