Rather than clogging up the V2 thread proper with show-off photos, I thought I'd bring this one back to life because I can't stop messing with mine.
First up: Colors! I slapped some more onto the neck and windvane area to bring out the dirty brown/brass color only to bring it down again to recreate the blotchy appearance I see (and figure) it would naturally have. Now I'm happy with it and it actually reads on camera in the right lighting. Also, added paint on the whole of the emitter. Why? Our boy @
scottjua confirms that it is not just black all over and, to me, basically confirms what many of us here believe and that the stunts were painted to resemble the OWK hero as much (or as decently) as possible to be on camera. So that, to me, means: black booster and grenade area, a brown color on the portion of the neck area, and then a dark gray for the emitter, ala:
Like I detailed before, the respective areas were painted with acrylics dry-brushed on top of the original black and then brought down afterwards. Also did another light touch of Alu-Black on the booster when I decided to repaint it with a more matching black. Again, I don't think it's noticeable to anyone beyond me.
After getting it to where I liked it, I also ran the cone knob on the ground to dull the point before putting it all back together again.
Another detail I added was finally the third emitter grub screw placed under the emitter plate. Because the nipple and the emitter are one piece on the hilt, it doesn't do anything beyond providing a cosmetic update, and using the clip from Mark Hamill's show as a starting point, I picked a place for the screw relative how my emitter is laid out. The chipping and orientation of it is in the "throne room" position, while the rest is seated in the "Anaheim" orientation. So though it won't be dead-on accurate, it is authentic enough for me in relation to the construction of the hilt.
Unfortunately, though having partially threaded the hole I drilled (because it was deeper than the screw I wound up using), the set screw I used met some resistance when twisting it in and the threading for the allen key just gave way and I'm unable to unscrew it or screw it in further. So though it's in the right place, the screw protrudes about a millimeter from the surface when I was looking to have it set further in, and though I'm a bit disappointed by it, it's not enough for me to be all too bothered.
And then these two are just me trying to rereate how the hilt's color scheme looks in two environments (one in stark, broad daylight compared to one under white light) to better understand how it may look completely monochromatic in one photo, all black and silver, and then the true colors being glanced in another, similar to the images pulled from Pop-Culture Quest.
