Cyra Marrus

Oh, shoot! Thanks for the heads up. Sean's files don't have that I now see. Found an updated version and am reprinting now! In the meantime, anyone else want to weigh in on the chipping color? Appreciate you all!

I painted in my chipping black on one of these handplates, and also did a couple rounds of black wash. Personally, I really like the dark brown..but want to make sure that's going to get approved. The CRL doesn't specify the weathering color. Anyways, let me know what y'all think.

Good to know, thanks. I did the three washes on my post-Imperial Mando Merc and am pretty comfortable with the process and the results. I'll likely hit it with some airbrushing too. Do you see any issue with my chipping color?

With a black wash I think it’ll darken quite a bit. But could I get @KOtrooper or @BikerScout007 to weigh in on that? Don’t want to get too far down the road if I need to adjust.

Oh! One more thing. What visor material are you all using? I grabbed this one from Amazon. I used the green-tinted version for my Mando bucket, but the version I got for the ST is REALLY dark.

Yeah, I've had to deal with some splatter, but have found it to be a bit better now as long as I'm holding the can vertically and have given it a good shake. Check out the helmet below. Just painted the emblem on there yesterday. Still need to do the black accents around the collar, and on the notches in the tusks. Then will black/brown/burnt umber wash. I also know I need to cover the rear vents. Thinking I can do that easily by painting a chunk of PLA black. Working on the hand plates as well...will share those when I finish painting them. Thanks all!

Thank you all for weighing in. I'm excited about this build! Have some updates to share. I got down a bunch of Sahara Beige and have the top of the helmet put together. I consider myself a decent spray painter, but WOW is the Montana Gold tough to deal with! Spitting everywhere and just very finicky. I've tried all the tricks - shaking it for an eternity, warm water, the whole thing. Just going to require a little more finesse than I'm used to for spray painting. But, not insurmountable! Otherwise, I really like how the dark brown chipping has come out. I'll black/brown wash the whole thing later. The rest of the helmet is finally in a good place and is ready for paint. So, that'll be my next update. Happy Thanksgiving!

Got my first coats of paint down this morning! Hitting some of the helmet parts with the dark brown base coat before moving to the Sahara Beige. Not sure if I should do some masking at this point or just weather it with some sandpaper once the beige is down. More to come!

Hi everyone! Thanks for the responses and suggestions. @BikerScout007, really glad to hear that folks have been approved with Sean's files and that he's been updating them. I hadn't seen any super recent intel on that front, so that's good to know. Just got my first can of Sahara Beige in the mail today...and have some of the helmet printed with more underway (just upgraded my old Anycubic Mega X to a Bambulabs A1 and whooo boy is it night and day), so I'll share here when I make some progress on that. Appreciate you all! Paul

Amazing, thank you! One last thing (well, I'll probably be back with more questions) do you happen to have a link to that fabric you got at Joann's? Is it this?

Hey there! This is such great work, thank you so much for documenting it! I've just started work on a Sean Fields Shoretrooper as well. I've heard some different information about the back plate. Besides using the updated greeblies, was there anything else you had to do to the back plate to get approved? Thanks! Cyra/Paul

Well hello there! I'm Paul/Cyra, ID-76884. I'm a member of the Midwest Garrison and also a member of the Mandalorian Mercs with a post-imperial custom Mandalorian kit. I've always loved the Shoretrooper armor design, so I've decided to start building my own! Very early stages here, obviously, but I'll be using Sean Fields' files. From what I can gather, they'll get me level 1 approval - which I'm totally fine with. It looks like I'll need to update the greeblies in the back plate as well as do some trimming of the back...but honestly I'm still trying to figure that out. For now, I've started work on the helmet. Anyone out there have experience getting approved using Sean's files? Anything I should know? Looking forward to joining the ranks! Paul