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Looks a shade light to me, but it's in the ballpark.

It doesn't need to exactly match, but you want it close to the shade of the gray on the decals. When I painted mine, I used testors model master navy aggressor grey, which was pretty close.

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Looks a shade light to me, but it's in the ballpark.
It doesn't need to exactly match, but you want it close to the shade of the gray on the decals. When I painted mine, I used testors model master navy aggressor grey, which was pretty close.


This grey is actually filler primer with a glossy clear coat. Guess I’ll have to redo it a bit darker.
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The lighter grey would be better. Years ago, I just sprayed mine with grey primer.

*Edit* Now that I see the other colours below, I think when I finally finish my RS helmet, I'll have to go with the Vallejo paint.

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The transfer/sticker above the snout is the correct colour aswel, is it not?

I think the paint on the right of your picture is too dark. the new one isn't the exact right colour, but it isn't more wrong than the old one :tusken_icon:

If you can't find Spike's paint, maybe your local modelling store has Vallejo. This comes close:
Vallejo -Light grey  RAL7001

pictures in google may be a bit misleading so here's a comparison picture (this helmet is Altman :D )  the bottle is vallejo.
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imo ...

i think to many people try to match the snout with the bolt/decals grey color .... even i did at first till i started reasearching some orignal helmets.

i eventually changed my snout color to a darker grey.

if you look at star wars helmets then youll see plenty of shots with the snout and the bolts ... and youll see they dont match at all.  the snout is clearly a darker grey.

now to get some Pantone Cool Grey 8c and see how this color matches up to what i have

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15 hours ago, 762s said:

i think too many people try to match the snout with the bolt/decals grey color .... even i did at first till i started reasearching some orignal helmets.

Maybe yes... But the decals seem darker than the bolts aswell to me


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