Ord Mantell's PP2 Build

[Ord Mantell]

Progress shots on the pp2 blaster paint job. Should be finished in another day or so...

I'll go into details of the process later but these are the basic colors I chose after hours of looking at the references:

Dark Blue, Reefer Gray, Grimy Black, and Tuscan Red. Also need a little silver and black.

 

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a quick glimpse of the paint process on the sling gun...

After weeks of looking at the references, I felt the only color that had any masking was the dark blue, and it went on last, or nearly last, with maybe only touch up weathering going on top. I used both vaseline and latex for masking.

 

[Ord Mantell]

in the shed where I do all my airbrushing, freshly finished...

There were a couple of mishaps where the paintjob got damaged along the way, and instead of re-doing it, I made repairs. I can go into it only if ppl are curious. So it's far from perfect, which... well, perfection is always the goal.

On one hand, it's not a complicated paintjob, but on the other hand capturing the chaos of the original while trying to be careful to accurately replicate it's detail is not exactly a walk in the park. Moreso than with the armor I think.

While I did photoshop some rough stencils, I didn't actually stencil anything due to the difficulty of making marks on a dark surface that can be covered or removed afterwards. Chalk paper would work fine for that but I didn't have any and didn't think it necessary. What I did instead was print the stencils out and hold them next to the area to get the scale and layout while free-handing the masking with a q-tip.

I also decided to switch the handle to final forward-button position before painting it since I didn't see any compelling evidence either way beside the fact there is far more blue on one side than the other, which matched better with the handle being in it's final forward-button position.

Next item on the agenda is the wookie scalps. The hair should arrive in a few days.

 

[BudaFett]

Absolutely beautiful! It's crazy to think that something that they probably painted in an hour quickly takes so long to replicate!

 

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Hit the mic shin tool with some red misting to finish it off...

 

[Ord Mantell]

Colors are the same as ESB, except none of the colors I bought for ESB are available. Went shopping until I found the ones above on etsy. The way they are tied is the same as ESB, too, for the brown and gray braids anyway, as far as I can tell. The blonde is slightly different, having a loop and then an extension. the extension is about 12-14" total length which attaches to the loop segment with a 2" section where they join up between tie-offs.

 

[Mottrex]

in the shed where I do all my airbrushing, freshly finished...

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There were a couple of mishaps where the paintjob got damaged along the way, and instead of re-doing it, I made repairs. I can go into it only if ppl are curious. So it's far from perfect, which... well, perfection is always the goal.

On one hand, it's not a complicated paintjob, but on the other hand capturing the chaos of the original while trying to be careful to accurately replicate it's detail is not exactly a walk in the park. Moreso than with the armor I think.

While I did photoshop some rough stencils, I didn't actually stencil anything due to the difficulty of making marks on a dark surface that can be covered or removed afterwards. Chalk paper would work fine for that but I didn't have any and didn't think it necessary. What I did instead was print the stencils out and hold them next to the area to get the scale and layout while free-handing the masking with a q-tip.

I also decided to switch the handle to final forward-button position before painting it since I didn't see any compelling evidence either way beside the fact there is far more blue on one side than the other, which matched better with the handle being in it's final forward-button position.
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Next item on the agenda is the wookie scalps. The hair should arrive in a few days.

My second favourite blaster that looks Fantastic!

 

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