blickfangQ2 - Legend of Zelda - Shield - finishing

Hi everyone,

I bought a nice Zelda Hylian Shield cast half a year ago and finally had time to start finishing it.

I started to sand it with 220 paper:


First coat of Primer:

More to come

 

Small Update:

Sanded small areas again and added another coat of primer


Gave it some time to dry and then painted it with a first coat of silver


Next: taping everything that has to stay silver in the end

 

Puh Taping is a lot more work than I thought... The curved emblems are pretty hard to mask.

 

Second tribal done taping

 

So tonight I had time to make some progress

Taping done and blue Paint applied


I first sprayed every tape-edge with silver again so I have no blue paint going underneath the tape later. Then I sprayed every corner first with blue and then slowly the big area. I waited a few minutes and then sprayed another layer of blue.

Removing the tape while its medium dry so the corners don't crack.




Sup. all tape removed. I'll let it dry 24 hours and then mask the triforce for some gold

 

I really like that blue.

 

Looks great, looking forward to to seeing it finished. May I ask where you got the cast from?

 

I got it second hand, it's made by:
http://fiberglassblades.com/Twilight_princess_shield.html

 

Gold triforce, here we go

 

nice work, I actually had this idea for the blue section of the shield for when I make mine, basically I'm gonna add pearl flakes into the blue paint to give it a crystaly appearance.

 

Thanks, I hope the blue pops more out when I add the clear finish.

 

Triforce gold:




And I missed the blue part in the middle




Now I need to wait for my bird vinyl to arrive

 

Looks really great so far!

 

Thanks
Yesterday my negative vinyl arrived. Now I have to mask it again and then some red will touch this shield

 

WOW! It looks amazing so far!

 

Thanks



Applied the mask

 

Ohhhhhh yeahhhhhhh!!! *happy*

 

Great job!

 

Thanks, but it's not finished yet...

 

Started heavy weathering!! Will clean it up and dry brush it's again and clean it up and dry brush it again and clean.... And so on and so forth

I hope I'll get a look I like in the end. All the little corners need extra attention too... We'll see still some work to do!

 

Very nice!