Andy88

Slightly modified your suggestion, used a foam brush to paint on a decent coat, wiped off most of it with a paper towel . Then 'buffed' to where I wanted it to actually be with 70% ISO and a throw away MF towel. Came out great overall, basically where I wanted to be with it in terms of 'grit vs clean'. Thanks for the help! very aprehensive of over or under doing it but it turned out to be the quickest and easiest to 'correct' part of the process so far. <blockquote class="imgur-embed-pub" lang="en" data-id="zDsykfy"><a href="https://imgur.com/zDsykfy">View post on imgur.com</a></blockquote><script async src="//s.imgur.com/min/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

No not at all what I meant, your piece is definitely not filler, it’s a very nice part. I actually thought it was metal just by the feel of it. I’m just thinking how I will give more structure around the speaker piece when it when it goes on the snout so it has that square structure like my resin snout piece does. I might use a filler like bondo however the way it was on in the prior mentioned thread looked better than I thought it would anyway so I might not bother. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks, this is his kit! It looks like he’s sort of bondo’d it into the shell. it’s given me some ideas. This looks a lot better in his pictures than I envisioned so I’ll probably do something similar.

Soft parts; Ammo holder- shameless Lego flex in the background. Orca Bay Boots in Sand from a recent restock. Weathering process- kicking around the mulch doing yard work. Gloves- IB trooper. Dog: Kylo (Ren), destroyer of anything he can reach, including a couple of printed pieces already.

Hello there! ( Kenobi 05/25 whoohoo!) I've accumulated parts and things since approximately mid august of last year but finally starting to get some serious work done so figured it's time to start the WIP thread to take in suggestions and, document. My goal is for a level "1+" approval and, then work on details to make it a level 2. Even in this early stage this has been such a rewarding experience from meeting a ton of great people online to developing skills which are adjacent to costuming that I've always wanted to develop. I'm really interested in the community and charity work the 501st does and, giving back to my community through something I love. Armor pieces; DIY Mr. Paul's STL's, I've done several pieces in PETG already but, recently made the decision to go all in with ABS. The helmet is a Sean fields that was resin molded by Sean Bradley. After 2-3 failed attempts at a Niko Henderson helmet and, a very rough completed one in PETG I wasn't happy with the amount of time it was taking and, needed to jumpstart my enthusiasm for this project so I had Sean finish it. Exceptional work and, it worked as planned, accomplished more in the last month than the last 5. Spent much of today lowering the visor which sat just a bit too high. I used latex 'paint' to do chip weathering , still researching (and welcome) suggestions for the dirt weathering. I've got the acrylic paint, the application method is what I'm looking to hone-in. Some suggestions I've seen are to water down a mix so it can be washed on . Some suggest a Sponge? Dab in areas or 'wash' like a bath? Also interested for any ideas to integrate an i-COMM into the snout greeble. The box around the 'speaker' part seems like it will be tricky. I have a resin molded piece I've considered trying to demel out the snout part but I think it will be too messy and leave me with a bunch of broken pieces instead of a usable 'hole' in the resin mold to insert the iCOMM into