You definitely have that right!
It's sort of up to us to find colors that look like the pictures or replicate the feel of what we think it appears to to. I personally choose to make it look like more of the feel of what it looks like in the pictures and memory. So when you see it in person it will hopefully look right.
Here are some pictures after misting and shading. I have also attached the velcro to close the gauntlets up.
The dental files came from Hawk01 and started life ad silver fat dental files. I left one untouched and then painted the other with Tamiya clear red with a brush, Tamiya clear colors do an excellent job of replicating anodized colors over mettalics so I just bought a handful of silver files and will paint them to be whatever I need.
I have attached the whipcord housing with 4 small screws from the inside and super glue. The housing overlaps the bottom shell by a bit and offers a secure way to mount it. You can see the launcher breech has been painted white and shaded with Games workshop contrast iyanden yellow.
Some believe this breech to be copper( I'm pretty sure on the esb gauntlets it is) but it really has a yellow glazed over white look to me in the photos. I rather like this small pop of color so that's what I went with.
The darts have been painted, the red being much brighter than the gauntlets as it appears in the references.
The misting and shading was done with Tamiya black and Tamiya neutral gray, the gray appears all over the top and in a large patch on the bottom shell.
In my next series of pictures you will see I tweaked this a bit more due to staring at a particular reference picture and determining that some gray overspray is much more apparent than I made it. I went through with a brush and mixed up some silver snd gray paint and added some chips that are darker than the base silver.
The grayish protrusion above the darts was painted with a light bluish gray( games workshop fenrisian gray) as it has a very light yet bluish appearance. It definitely is not silver like the basecoat, which is what I originally thought and have seen people paint it, its most definitely a light gray.
I also have touched up the scratched red overspray on the whipcord housing after these pictures where taken, my scratched were a bit too big so I sponged some red over them and re did them.i have basically painted everything on this thing at least twice lol
I also added the alco switches and started prepping the darts and minilight for installation.
