SE ROTJ boba fett 98% finished

Hey heatshock mate, I followed your build thread for your clone over on the UKG boards, very nice.
Yeah the gauntlets are a pain, but they look good when done. Ive since sold mine and purchased another set.
The JP is all Bobafett UK, as well as the soft harness, although he has a more accurate pack out now. Colours I used for it were:

Plasticote grey primer (used this for the damage on the white)
Plasticote brilliant silver

Humbrol

Black 33
White 34
Blue 109
red 73
Yellow 154
Red 20 (top of the rocket)

Welsh

That is simply awesome...

I love this thread.
Outstanding work matey. You make it all look so effortless. i cant wait to see the next instalment and the finished product of course.

Cheers dude. Thanks for that. I am going for straight up rotj for me fett.
as for the gaunts, I WILL make em work!!
I got one of robs v1 jp's as well. It will do me fine

I like that yellow, gonna use it for my cody



Catch u at a troop soon bud

Very nice mate, I think I recognize that helmet as I almost bought one, not from a welshman is it?

Got some more work done today and last night, really happy with the out come.
Same process as the rest of the lid, this time using grey 79 and green 78. Some of the main scratches were then applied while more finer details will then be added on later topically. The green on the back panels looks a little bright but it looks darker in person. What do you think?

Welsh

You have amazing paint skills! Please, add the mandibles red before the upper cheeks black, you will love it with the red ON!

Ive already started to mask up the black lol. I did the black first last time so I feel more comfortable doing it this way. Cheers for the compliment aswell

Another update to show you guys,
Managed to get this done pretty quickly, masking it was the biggest pain but I think it came out well.
Masked the cheeks up applied grey 79, then once dried removed old silver masking, re masked the areas as well as the grey sections then sprayed black 33. Piece still needs to be buffed with some wire wool so forgive the little bits of masking fluid. I also played around with a pastel on the left cheek.
What do you guys think?







And then I stuck the ears and visor in as I wanted to see what it looked like



Welsh

Man this is really great work here. I seriously love this thread. I can't help but check for updates.

Excellent build!

Thank you very much guys,

Another update to post.
Managed to get the mandibles painted yesterday. All of the colours apart from the red a custom mixes, although I feel the grey may be a little bit to light, to late now though . They still need to be buffed down, the "super detail" painted on as well as the scratches need to be applied. Next up will be the kill stripes, followed by the ears.

What do you guys think?









Thanks,

Welsh

Beautiful work! Very inspiring for me as I just finished my VERY FIRST layered topical paint job on a SGT FANG that was in pretty bad shape. I sucked at most of the build, but I learned a LOT! I'm on the list for a GMH...I plan to do all Airbrush when it arrives.

GREAT WORK BRO!

I can't say enough about this build!!! I concur with everyone on this board you have a great attention to th' details during this progress thread. Awesome job bra!!!

beautiful suit .....you got it down to the damn wookie braids its so impressive!

I'm not Fett expert but that helmet is a thing of beauty.
A1 dude

Incredible job! Long time fan of Fett here. You did it a great deal of justice. The level of detail in the paintwork is superb. I can't wait to see the finished product. Do you plan on adding any lighting to the helmet interior?

Thanks again guys.
As for the interior no I dont plan on doing anything special, this will be a trooping lid. It will have a fan and some padding, nothing special. I do have lights in the RF topper that are linked to a mercury switch, and I do hope of installing a servo for the RF. Ive got the SR interior as well but thats to be used for a different display lid as I cant get my melon in with it lol.

Well like I said previously I felt that the grey was a tad, if not really, to light. To me it seams it was hard to break up the grey and silver, and having the helmet on a stand for a few days made me want to fix it.
So I went and mixed up a darker grey, and topically applied it over the lighter grey. While I was at it I also added some of the finer details in the silver areas. Indoor shots so sorry for the quality.





Really happy with the repaint, I mixed the grey with some thinner and you cant tell that its painted on top even up close. Masking up the kill stripes now so as to start on them next week.

Thanks,

Welsh

This is the greatest Boba Fett suit I have ever seen

great thread look very good

Hey guys, another update to show.
Been working on the helmet, mainly adding the kill stripes as well as some weathering and the "super" detailing. Kill stripes were done by painting them yellow, and gently misting orange from the back.



Also.....not sure if I mentioned it but I also did another helmet



Pretty much an exact copy of the first, which I did along side the one documented, simply after stenciling the 1st I just re-did it on the 2nd. Very easy and it helps save on clean up, although it does take twice as long to get a colour down lol. The only difference is that the front helmet is a little behind, I need to add the kill stripes as well as the weathering on the lower cheeks. But other than that they are pretty much the same.





Thought I may as well post this as these lids will be finished before the week is out, really pleased with the out come of them. Next thing to be painted will be the gauntlets, then the armour which im really looking forward to
Cheers,

Welsh

Puh, I am so speechless... That... is... simply... OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!

I am really jelous, I wish I had your talent...

Thanks a lot for sharing all the pictures!!!

You Sir are AWESOME!!!

AMAZING!

You DO have painting skills, so where do i need to send my BF bucket???

Sen-bleedin'-sational!

Rich

Thank you very much guys for the comments

Did some small work on the helmets, finding it hard to get major work done on them as im sitting my final exams but they are getting there. I mainly started the weathering process, finishing up the back panels which im really pleased with. These photos were taking inside and I really dont like how the red is showing, its much darker in person. I will get better photos up tomorrow.





I also got the other lid to the same state, finishing up the kill stripes and applying all the weathering to both the cheeks and back panels. Still need to add some more weathering though to the rest of the helmets. The helmet with the ears on though has been given a satin clear coat. Waiting on a set of ears now and then I can get both of these finished, not long now.



Welsh