Too Much Garlic
Master Member
Re: eFX ANH Vader?!?! WOW
Having worked with metal paints for a while, I know how absolutely tricky they are. If you don't blend them properly, they won't give a uniform finish and the color below may shine through. Also, if you paint on top of them, the paint may not stick very well and a lot of the metallic color will show through.
Sure, there are myriads of explanations for what we are seeing. Sure, it could be just gunmetal. But it's darker than the rest of the gunmetal, which tells me only one thing - that it was darkened. It sure isn't the same color as the gloss black it was originally sprayed with - doesn't even look like a gloss paint being used there. I've seen that effect before when applying semi gloss black paint on metallic paint - especially seen it on silver, chrome-silver, bronze, brass & gold metallic paint. Always the same effect - the metal color shines through, unless you apply a really thick layer.
Seeing as those areas are definitely darker, but not the gloss black of the rest of the helmet is pretty clear that it was done this way. The brush strokes on both sides of the outer mouth wall has been discussed for many years now and I was gonna paint my own helmet this way, trying to replicate what I'm seeing. This is also the only way to explain the black tusk - that it was painted over with black, while applied to the helmet, to tone down the excessive gunmetal work applied.
If anyone thinks the ANH is just gloss black and gunmetal in one go pr paint... well... that's like saying that human skin is just fleshy pink and no other colors. It's a trainwreck of patchworks on top of a gloss black basecoat.
Having worked with metal paints for a while, I know how absolutely tricky they are. If you don't blend them properly, they won't give a uniform finish and the color below may shine through. Also, if you paint on top of them, the paint may not stick very well and a lot of the metallic color will show through.
Sure, there are myriads of explanations for what we are seeing. Sure, it could be just gunmetal. But it's darker than the rest of the gunmetal, which tells me only one thing - that it was darkened. It sure isn't the same color as the gloss black it was originally sprayed with - doesn't even look like a gloss paint being used there. I've seen that effect before when applying semi gloss black paint on metallic paint - especially seen it on silver, chrome-silver, bronze, brass & gold metallic paint. Always the same effect - the metal color shines through, unless you apply a really thick layer.
Seeing as those areas are definitely darker, but not the gloss black of the rest of the helmet is pretty clear that it was done this way. The brush strokes on both sides of the outer mouth wall has been discussed for many years now and I was gonna paint my own helmet this way, trying to replicate what I'm seeing. This is also the only way to explain the black tusk - that it was painted over with black, while applied to the helmet, to tone down the excessive gunmetal work applied.
If anyone thinks the ANH is just gloss black and gunmetal in one go pr paint... well... that's like saying that human skin is just fleshy pink and no other colors. It's a trainwreck of patchworks on top of a gloss black basecoat.
