Fettacini
Hunter
Good morning everyone!
I haven't been active in a while but rest assured I'm working away on my PrePro2 and RoTJ SE Suits.
Anyways, after being a newcomer to Fett builds but having been building life size props and iron man suite for 5 years now, I found Boba Fett to be a deceptively difficult paint job. Hear me out. To someone who has 3d printed and built some truly awsome( said with no ego, just confidence in my skills as a painter and craftsman with a few awards to prove it, but once again, I'm not the best, far from.it, I'm just pretty decent), I thought Boba would be easy.
For a newcomer who has never painted a layer paint job or put together a suit, sure, Boba is the hardest costume to do right.
Man. . .. man was I wrong. This paint job is a nightmare, no matter what scheme or version you choose. I'm my humble opinion it comes down to two.factors.
Color tone. Some of the color tones are eccentric to say the least. We know Floquil colors were used sure, but lighting and photo manipulation has a huge effect on color and what "looks right" isn't always accurate, thus we all.must bridge this gap between, correct color, and colors that people.can look at and be like "yeah thats the Boba I know!".
Second, the damage. This is the only suit where we all try to match this randomly created damage exactly. Deliberate chaos or replicating such is difficult for artist. This is the truly aggravating part.
Please note, I do not get everything perfect on this. Its no Blaidon props or Superjedi or Famous fett paontjob, but the overall.tone I achieved I was pretty stoked about. There are mistakes. I repainted the dome and cheeks twice and the mandibles twice and they still aren't perfect, so never get discourage guys and girls
First off. Rafelfett has done us all so much work and is such a good dude. How good? I asked him to send me his PayPal so I could donate to him bc he gives everything for free, u know what he told me? He said no, don't worry about it, I do it for you all so enjoy the templates. I wasn't trying to buy anything from him, I just wanted to throw him some money to show how much I appreciated his hard work and he declined, he was just happy to heave helped me. Now that dude is the best of us. We all need to thank him and if anyone has his PayPal name, let.me know via dm so I can give that man a gift of money to really showy thanks. What a great guy.
Anyways. After painting several helmets, I finally think I'm getting the hang of it.
This is a Fettpride 2 helmet that I filled the damage in on to.get rid of.the ESB damage and added the PrePro2 damage. I cut out the circuit board and used a CS Stallard board with real dental files from Hawk01( who is a super nice dude as well, so dang helpful!)
I used a Quest Designs rf stalk and CS Stallard range finder topper.
I also used a real 3 hole borden from ebay that I cut in half due to.the hole pattern being mirrored.
So here are some initial photos, I didn't take any step by step but you can find some on my IG @andrewhoytrowellIV
I haven't been active in a while but rest assured I'm working away on my PrePro2 and RoTJ SE Suits.
Anyways, after being a newcomer to Fett builds but having been building life size props and iron man suite for 5 years now, I found Boba Fett to be a deceptively difficult paint job. Hear me out. To someone who has 3d printed and built some truly awsome( said with no ego, just confidence in my skills as a painter and craftsman with a few awards to prove it, but once again, I'm not the best, far from.it, I'm just pretty decent), I thought Boba would be easy.
For a newcomer who has never painted a layer paint job or put together a suit, sure, Boba is the hardest costume to do right.
Man. . .. man was I wrong. This paint job is a nightmare, no matter what scheme or version you choose. I'm my humble opinion it comes down to two.factors.
Color tone. Some of the color tones are eccentric to say the least. We know Floquil colors were used sure, but lighting and photo manipulation has a huge effect on color and what "looks right" isn't always accurate, thus we all.must bridge this gap between, correct color, and colors that people.can look at and be like "yeah thats the Boba I know!".
Second, the damage. This is the only suit where we all try to match this randomly created damage exactly. Deliberate chaos or replicating such is difficult for artist. This is the truly aggravating part.
Please note, I do not get everything perfect on this. Its no Blaidon props or Superjedi or Famous fett paontjob, but the overall.tone I achieved I was pretty stoked about. There are mistakes. I repainted the dome and cheeks twice and the mandibles twice and they still aren't perfect, so never get discourage guys and girls
First off. Rafelfett has done us all so much work and is such a good dude. How good? I asked him to send me his PayPal so I could donate to him bc he gives everything for free, u know what he told me? He said no, don't worry about it, I do it for you all so enjoy the templates. I wasn't trying to buy anything from him, I just wanted to throw him some money to show how much I appreciated his hard work and he declined, he was just happy to heave helped me. Now that dude is the best of us. We all need to thank him and if anyone has his PayPal name, let.me know via dm so I can give that man a gift of money to really showy thanks. What a great guy.
Anyways. After painting several helmets, I finally think I'm getting the hang of it.
This is a Fettpride 2 helmet that I filled the damage in on to.get rid of.the ESB damage and added the PrePro2 damage. I cut out the circuit board and used a CS Stallard board with real dental files from Hawk01( who is a super nice dude as well, so dang helpful!)
I used a Quest Designs rf stalk and CS Stallard range finder topper.
I also used a real 3 hole borden from ebay that I cut in half due to.the hole pattern being mirrored.
So here are some initial photos, I didn't take any step by step but you can find some on my IG @andrewhoytrowellIV
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