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Ready to sub… hold up.
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On Friday I was getting everything ready to get photos for my submission! But we waited too late in the day and it got cloudy. And then the base (screw) of the rocket broke as I was attaching the wing nut to the jetpack. But after 45 minutes putting everything on I wasn’t going to…
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Happier with the stripes
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Since adding the stripes I have not been happy with their color. They seem to light. And there wasn’t enough black “wear” on them. So I went over them with an oil pastel and did another pass with the black paint from about 2 feet away. The lighting doesn’t do them justice as they look…
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The silver wire and test-fitting stuff
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Since we are getting down to the details I decided to go for the details of the silver “wire” seen on the skiff battle. I am really happy this exists because prior I was running the lines behind the codpiece and through the zipper at the bottom of the flight suit. It was a pain…
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Kill Stripes Done Right
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As I wrote in my previous article I was highly dissatisfied with the kill stripes from the plastic I cut out. Why? In brief: inconsistency. Instead of using a template this time I am using tape. And unfortunately tape does not come (cheap/standard) in various widths of 2, 3 and 4 millimeters.The modeling tape I…
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Kill Stripe Dissatisfaction
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I never really liked the way the kill stripes turned out. The first helmet I got had too many. ROTJ should have 18 of them. The kill stripes sit approximately 5mm from the headband, are approximately 2cm tall, 4mm wide and have about a 3mm gap between them. Don’t like metric? Get over it. It’s…
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Pack Scratch Fever
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Doing more with the tracks. I noticed in some of the reference photos there are several micro-scratches on it, obviously from being tossed around Slave I (I refuse to call it by its new name). In a few of the reference photos sent to me from some 501st folks I noticed significant scratches and colors…
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Revisiting the tank tops
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I caused a bit of a stir when showing the tank glyphs on the jetpack. The glyphs on the image that is on the CRL are burgundy matching the tops of the thrusters. However, the official decision on them is that they are black. And since I painted them on red when painting them black…
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Servo rangefinder & hermetic seal sound effect
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I want my Fett build to be the best it can be. For the helmet I have added two things: The first part was pretty easy. I ordered this module from Amazon and isolated one of the sound effect seals from The Book of Boba Fett and copied it onto it. I then mounted the…
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Booty and Spikes
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Dissatisfied with how my spikes turned out and how my boots fit I purchased a pair from Man of War Studios and spikes from Quest Design Canada. Here they are clean (after painting the center area black): And after weathering them which did not compromise their integrity in any way. Everything was done with Rustolem…
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Fixing Fett Acne
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That’s the best I could come up with. If you looked at the photos in this post you saw now the lower cheeks of the helmet went weird with the strange lines. Not satisfied with that I stripped and sanded the cheeks and layered in more silver, grey and dark green: After masking the helmet…
