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Thanks! Since those photos I did some work with steel wool to bring out the Grime layer, and I’m sure to find some areas to touch up later.


I’ve been studying reference photos and the surface of my casting to determine the order in which the layers were painted on the original helmet. There are signs of both topical and layered methods being used, and while the consensus of others seems to be that it is primarily layered silver > grey > green with liquid masking on each layer, I’ve decided to go silver > green > grey, unmasking the silver at the end.


The first reason is that while you can clearly see a ridge around the silver layered damage on the hero casting, even after some layers of paint, the same can’t be said for the grey, which disappears after a thin coat of primer. This leads me to believe the grey is a thin layer on top.


Second is is lack of grey around many of the incidental scratches like the tape pulls around the killstripes (pic of PP3 helmet)[ATTACH=full]201278[/ATTACH]


I’m not saying this is how the original was definitely painted - I could be partly or completely wrong  - I just believe that this method matches the evidence as I interpret it. And after rubbing the surface with fine steel wool to blend down the grey, I feel it matches what I see on my hero casting.


So after masking the silver I painted Archive X Lt Green and Lt Grey, combined about 3:1 for the first couple coats, then with a few extra drops of Grey to darken and desaturate ever so slightly. Also a slight misting of Earth, as suggested by Jon Bird who has been incredibly helpful with sharing his painting techniques.


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I also have to say, I was pleasantly surprised by how well the original scratches show up through the primer and silver coat. For the most part I was referring to reference photos and [USER=4963]RafalFett[/USER] stencils to locate the real scratches and literally paint masking fluid inside the lines!


Up next, hand painting the grey...


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