Ord Mantell's ESB build
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He's waiting on Blaidon props im pretty sure lolCome on, get that helmet painted!
Ord Mantell
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I've heard rumors the end is in sight.Come on, get that helmet painted!
"A helmet! A helmet! My galactic Empire for a finished ESB helmet!" -Shakespeare, Richard III
Ord Mantell
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Third time's a charm. This will be my third pass on the shin tools. This time all the parts are now vintage correct parts, except the tape. And we still have to find that microphone for the 4th tool.
My previous attempt was still a little too heavy handed on the paint. Besides the orange/rust stripe, there's really just light weathering on it with the white plastic showing through in spots and on edges where the the weathering gets heavier.
The PP1 tools are probably a good guide to go by.
The weathering is light and subtle. Which is not what I did last time.
I took this photo of one of the squeegees when the costume was on display in Seattle in 2015.
Is it the ESB with a few extra scratches on it? Or PP3? Doesn't look like ESB because the holes down the stripe are centered nicely, whereas the ESB seems to have those offset a bit. The weathering is slightly heavier on this than the PP1.
ESB squeegee:
For the anti-security blade tool, for a long while I thought it looked rather homogenous, like it might not have any weathering
but a closer look, you can see a bit of a bright spot on the edge...
This makes me think it did get a light dusting as well.
For the stirrer, it definitely has a yellow or gold tone to it,
and traditionally people paint it gold with silver bits showing, and I have done that myself in the past, this old one I did previously, as an example...
that looks cool, more like a real world object, but the actual prop was probably different, judging by the other shin tools.
So here are the fresh tools, vintage plastic and metal parts, before painting...
The white plastic is so much more appealing to me, even though it largely gets covered up.
This is how they ended up:
For some reason my phone camera makes the paint look a lot more contrasty than IRL. Very annoying.
I did notice on the side of the squeegee with the long black stripe it seems to have gotten hit harder with another shot of weathering while in the pocket, or seemingly so, because of a line where it seems to get lighter near the pocket top...
shows up here, too...
That could be an illusion, but I went with it.
This is the best reference for the long black stripe on ESB:
For the stirrer, I decided to go with something a little different. To get the yellow tone I used Dirty Down nicotine color on top of weathering colors like gray, black and weathered black...
a couple more close-ups...
My previous attempt was still a little too heavy handed on the paint. Besides the orange/rust stripe, there's really just light weathering on it with the white plastic showing through in spots and on edges where the the weathering gets heavier.
The PP1 tools are probably a good guide to go by.
The weathering is light and subtle. Which is not what I did last time.
I took this photo of one of the squeegees when the costume was on display in Seattle in 2015.
Is it the ESB with a few extra scratches on it? Or PP3? Doesn't look like ESB because the holes down the stripe are centered nicely, whereas the ESB seems to have those offset a bit. The weathering is slightly heavier on this than the PP1.
ESB squeegee:
For the anti-security blade tool, for a long while I thought it looked rather homogenous, like it might not have any weathering
but a closer look, you can see a bit of a bright spot on the edge...
This makes me think it did get a light dusting as well.
For the stirrer, it definitely has a yellow or gold tone to it,
and traditionally people paint it gold with silver bits showing, and I have done that myself in the past, this old one I did previously, as an example...
that looks cool, more like a real world object, but the actual prop was probably different, judging by the other shin tools.
So here are the fresh tools, vintage plastic and metal parts, before painting...
The white plastic is so much more appealing to me, even though it largely gets covered up.
This is how they ended up:
For some reason my phone camera makes the paint look a lot more contrasty than IRL. Very annoying.
I did notice on the side of the squeegee with the long black stripe it seems to have gotten hit harder with another shot of weathering while in the pocket, or seemingly so, because of a line where it seems to get lighter near the pocket top...
shows up here, too...
That could be an illusion, but I went with it.
This is the best reference for the long black stripe on ESB:
For the stirrer, I decided to go with something a little different. To get the yellow tone I used Dirty Down nicotine color on top of weathering colors like gray, black and weathered black...
a couple more close-ups...
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Ord Mantell
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update on the helmet...
