As usual I have divided the right mandible into two portions. Here's the upper area, along with my traditional collage of how I build the details topically.
I started working on some of the weathering effects.
The first pic shows the white thumbprints. Maybe these were due to a little accident in the paint shop, lol. But they're visible in screen caps from ESB.
The second pic shows the "tape repair" under the killstripes.
The third shot shows the painted edges of the ear platform as well as the vertical stain above the ear arch.
I will be taking a short pause from working on this helmet as I am waiting for the ear parts to arrive. Once I get them, I'll continue to show the work on those and the final weathering!
Prep on resin ears includes using my Dremel to make depressions in the backs of the parts, into which I install small machine screws with some 5-minute epoxy.
The RF ear cap gets a couple of holes drilled and I use CA glue to fix a pair of rare earth magnets.
Tomorrow I'll get these parts in primer.
I like to give the ear base coats a good 24 hours to dry before putting tape on them for the markings. But since the lower RF ear doesn't require any masking, I finished adding the damage.
More you say?? Ok...
The ears are finished now.
All that remains is final weathering and assembly, and then I can get this out to Buda so his poor mannequin won't be headless anymore!