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I put the visor in, it's just a welding shield from Amazon. I laid it in with hot glue and took a few more pics under some different light.


Here is a paint list as well for all who are integrated.


Main base coat is duplicolor silver sprayed with Testors dullcoat, this allowed me to easily use a 6b pencil to draw on the damaged areas.


This basecoat was masked with humbrol maskol and then oversprayed with Tamiya German gray and flat black mixed to achieve the faded grayish silver areas.


The cheeks were simply painted black and misted with Tamiya dark sea blue and medium gray.


The mandibles where painted with Tamiya dull red spray can.


The pinkish areas on the cheeks is a 50/25/25 mix of Tamiya Hull red( a brownish red) , flesh, and neutral gray


I used a cheap medium gray from Delta Ceramicoat or plaid brand acrylics for the medium gray damage areas.


The dome and lower cheeks is just Tamiya Field gray ( which is really a green) from the spray can. This was then misted with medium blue and Tamiya Field blue with the airbrush.


The back panels are just Tamiya medium green ( the Japanese military version) and mixed with Tamiya dark green, no real ratio just eyeballed it. I know, everyone hates when partners say that but it's the way a lot of us work.


The keyhole slot area and mq1 board was just Rustoleum gray primer. . .super easy.


The kill stripes were painted with Tamiya yellow then oversprsyed with Tamiya flourescent red ( more of an orange) both fromt the spray can. Nothing fancy. They got the overspray of Field blue and medium blue to tone them down a bit.


The helmet was post shaded around the lower cheeks( where they meet the blackish upper cheeks) and around the helmet dome where it meets the mandible edges.


I used Vallejo foundation white to hand paint the areas where the gel coat shows through and/or what appears to be circular white splatter on the dome is. I really liked this step, when kept to a subtle minimum it frames the helmet and adds something you can't quite put a term on that makes it pop!


I added thin scratches and damage with vallejo german gray. Just a series of thin barely perceptible scratches that bring out the contours..


I used games workshop incubi Darkness to paint the dark gray bluish catches and damage.. this was also thinned and sprayed onto the cheek . This color is amazing. Every fetr partner should own a few bottles of it. It's a dark bluish greenish gray black. It's that amazing csnt really explain what color it is type of paint that nails a multi tonal color shifting under different lighting look type of color..  . .if that makes sense.


Here are some shots under different lighting while waiting on my range finder parts to come in. You can see how the tone changes just under different lights in my own house. Which is kind of the look I was going for more or less.


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