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My workbench is too embarrassingly messy and disorganised to post photos of at the moment, but here are two projects in particular that I want to make headway on over the summer period.

The first is a Rubies DDC Defender...already very accurate apart from the colour. Will fill seams, sand, adjust a few details, and paint black.

The second is an EU Stormtrooper variant from the old Dark Horse comics that I'm starting on. More on that project in a separate thread.

My bench is quite clear at the moment, mainly cause of the fibreglassing I just did. Usually it's covered in more junk or sanding dust.

Still needs the back grill section so will be cutting it close. Whats next is to give a few washes of blue and green and some black to dull it down and give it a little extra interest.





Lighting is a little different in the trailer shot below but I think it will be pretty close after some washes.


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Blaxmyth wrote:

badges2nz wrote:Did you manage to get some photos of you in costume, would be great to see the finished work and progress that you have made.

Seconded!

Unfortunately not But people did grab some video
https://youtu.be/Kn8TSg6Sx2Q?t=8m1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UhcUVMuAVk
Actually video 9 but well. there was a bit of excitement
https://youtu.be/j-tBzqteTcw

I started with Luke Skywalker from Return of the Jedi
http://imgur.com/K6X2qCP

Which I am pretty damn happy with, its as movie accurate as I can get it on my limited time budget but I consider it a work in progress. I made the shirt and pants you see in this picture. Next I would like to do up the Endor Strike costume he wears during his fight with the Scout Troopers on Endor. I have a mate who as a sweet suit of Scout Trooper armour and doing matchy matchy would be fun I think.
Been having a little problem finding the right fabric for the poncho he wears.

Love to know what everyone thinks.

Two coats of nice shiny white enamel applied! The teeth & voice decoder are easy enough but painting the thin black boarders around the traps & tears isn't my favorite areas to do & then there's the tube stripes.....
Once completed these two lids will take very different directions, one will stay nice minty & new while the other is going to get roughed up a bit!

Postie wrote:Two coats of nice shiny white enamel applied! The teeth & voice decoder are easy enough but painting the thin black boarders around the traps & tears isn't my favorite areas to do & then there's the tube stripes.....
Once completed these two lids will take very different directions, one will stay nice minty & new while the other is going to get roughed up a bit!

Beautiful work!

Well, it's off the shelves next to my work bench, and it is Star Wars, so I guess it qualifies.

Spent a few hours working on an Uruk Hai sword for my son-in-law today, and had the problem of not being able to fit goggles, ear muffs and sun protection all at the same time. So - I remembered one of my still uncompleted first ever pepakura projects - a Navy Talker helmet which is eventually going to be a rebel fleet trooper. Some day.

It worked perfectly with the ear muffs underneath, just like the originals way back when!

Hey blaxmyth, you almost look like a pod racer