My 2nd Helmet paint job

[bassplayer82]

I finished off with the grey and dark red today, a marathon Netflix and masking session today from 7am - 5pm !!!!!







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[bassplayer82]

Finished some more painting and installed the visor

 

[bassplayer82]

And finished off the ear peaces just waiting on my decals to arrive in the mail now So far I am up to Day 7 of working on the helmet woot!

 

[RobaFett]

Shame you left Darwin, would liked to have seen this one in real life in the paint up process! very sweet looking lid man!

 

[Jayvee]

Looking fantastic mate!

 

[beetle]

Beautiful! What is your paint list?

 

[bassplayer82]

Shame you left Darwin, would liked to have seen this one in real life in the paint up process! very sweet looking lid man!

Hey mate! Yeah I know but I had to move to Melb because of my Mrs (and work). If I ever move back up I will be starting a 501st Outpost in D-Town for sure !

Thanks for the kind words mate !

 

[bassplayer82]

Beautiful! What is your paint list?

Thank you, I followed Jayvees deluxe paint up

 

[bassplayer82]

Looking fantastic mate!

Hey !! Man your ESB paint up was a huge help so thank you for taking the time to post while you painted!

 

[thinbluefett]

wow man you flew through this paint up! awesome work!

 

[bassplayer82]

7 Days total including installing the visor! Now to get started on all the detail work ! Thank you dms54nyc

 

[bassplayer82]

Installed the hard hat inner today and hand painted the right ear cap, need to go over it with some steel wool and I also worked on the front mandibles and weathered.

 

[Fett 4 Real]

Feel like the dome damage scale is off. It seems to big. The cat scratch the dent seem like 10% to large. You might want to consider redoing the dome maybe at a later date not sure if you see it or not...but good job overall...


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[bassplayer82]

HEy Fett 4 Real, yeah I know I have been looking at that for the past few days and realised the cat scratch is too big. I am going to mask it out and then airbrush away some of the scratch. I had to eyeball all the dome so I am not surprised some of it is a bit off. Thank you for the feed back

 

[bassplayer82]

A few more photos of the helmet down that most of the detail work is done. There is always room for improvement but I think I have had enough of painting for the next few days/weeks! Thanks to everyone who has helped me out on these forums much appreciated

 

[syllander]

Looks really good man! Colors look spot on too. Did you go with enamels or acrylics?

 

[bassplayer82]

Wow thanks syllander I went with the humbrol enamels which came out with a really nice matt finish better than I expected. I have re painted around the dent a few times now ugh still not happy with it but need to have a break from painting as I have a photo shoot today in costume. I will post some pics on here haha! Thanks mate


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[bassplayer82]

I am waiting on the actual photos but here is one of me from the other days Photo Shoot with Scott Dixon who does some amazing cosplay photos here in Melbourne

 

[hobbit057]

Awesome job! Nice to see so many Fett-lovin-Aussies on TDH. You have a beautiful, dirty and gritty looking Fett. Very jelly!

 

[bassplayer82]

Awesome job! Nice to see so many Fett-lovin-Aussies on TDH. You have a beautiful, dirty and gritty looking Fett. Very jelly!

Hey Hobbit thanks for the kind words man! I have had to run the flight suit through the washing machine a few times as the stench was getting pretty unbearable after 12 months worth of troops lmao cheers!