Rangefinder ear piece.....Wondering if anyone else noticed that in Post ESB Helmet pictures that the upper back half of the ear piece appears to be gray or silver and blends with the yellow tone at the top of the piece. In any case I painted ours that way. Just an observation.
These two extreme close ups do show how the extra edge work gets rid of a lot of the liquid mask look. In person the weathering seems pretty natural to me. At least it was fun to do.
I never noticed this detail, but found it in both ESB and SE (post-ESB) pictures. It looks like it is not a blend of the silver into the ear piece, but a grey weathering that is a different color than the aluminum underneath (and the ear pieces do look actual aluminum and not paint based on the pictures... you can see some machining marks, which I think is interesting).
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you can see this here, The ear paint is layered... dark grey under the beige.... and probably the same grey misted over top with the ear attached to the helmet while misting as it carries over into the back panel area
Boba Fett Costume
I think it's good to keep in mind that maybe it shouldn't be as much about whether Bobas' costume is dirtier or cleaner, darker or lighter, more color
or less than it looks like on film. The way he looks in ESB is exactly the way the director wanted him to look. All of the creativity, whatever detail
went into it, was designed to satisfy the image George Lucas had for Bobas' appearance on film. No more no less.
I guess the question I'm asking is....When trooping and fans see your Boba, shouldn't you appear the way he looks to them in the film? If it can't be seen in the film then it's up to the individual builder how much of the behind the scenes weathering and detail to add before it's way too much.
Awesome I am having the same issues with the stencils. Going to make the cuts. And apply the stencil. I thought I was going crazy no matter what percent the size was I wasn’t fitting. Nice work.There are so many good helmet paint ups described on TDH that to do another would be somewhat repetitious. I'll just skip around on a few things about our helmet that
might interest a newer builder.
This helmet is painted about 90% layered and 10% topical. I'm including light wash as well as opaque as topical. The base after priming is Testors Non-Buf Aluminum. The rest is Humbrol enamel.
Like most I used Rafal Works Hero Helmet Stencils.It's buy no means the only way but here's the method I used to fit them to my helmet. I'll use a back panel as an example.
View attachment 160900 First size the printout as near to either hight or width as you can, keeping it inside the working area.
View attachment 160901 Once cut out it did not fit very well to the panel edges, especially the bottom edge.
In order to improve the fit I made cuts through the broad areas of the background,in this case the blueish tone, so as not to disturb the smaller details of the stencil.
View attachment 160902 Here they are opened up View attachment 160903 and now fitted to the panel.
Now it's an easy matter to transfer the cuts to each layer of the other stencil colors to match the panel you're working on.
View attachment 160904 These are the first paint layers before the wash and other topical work.
I used this method on all of the stencil work. Made my own transfer paper using a soft graphite drawing pencil on vellum drafting paper....tracing paper will do.
Some work in progress....nearing the half way point of the paint up.
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This shot shows some of the prep work research photos and color testing that kept me inspired. Been at it about a year and a half at that point.
The helmet was the final piece of the build.
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