superjedi
Sr Member
Hi gang,
During the past few days, I was kind of on hold for a TDH member's armor project (waiting for a new piece to arrive) and I took the opportunity to finish an X-Wing pilot helmet I recently bought.
I already have a couple of these in my collection and I wanted to do a paint scheme that I hadn't seen attempted before. This is the helmet of Red 9 from ANH, who is only listed in EU info as "Lt. Naytaan." He was one of the many pilots who died in the Battle of Yavin.
I always thought his helmet was wicked looking. Sort of a futuristic tiger design.
Here's a screen cap from the film to see what I was going for.
The kit was from Wilco Models and it arrived as a plain white styrene helmet.
For the main color, I chose Floquil Zinc Chromate Primer, which gave a really nice red-brown tone. The overall paint scheme on this helmet was pretty simple (compared to some of the other pilots!) and I simply masked the areas to remain white, and spray bombed the whole helmet.
The "V" markings, the "sliced onions" on the Mohawk portion, and the "flying ball" on the cheeks were decals from TDH member Lucksy31. Thanks Scott! :thumbsup
For the "tiger stripes" on either side of the Mohawk, I masked and painted them with Floquil Engine Black. These were trickier than I thought they would be to mask off, with a couple of shallow angles.
The eyes on the lower cheeks were also masked and painted. I had to do this in 3 stages; first masking and painting the main black portion, then masking that off and painting the gray outer portion, then masking it all off again the painting the yellow pupil. I hate waiting for paint to dry, so this was really tedious for me! :lol The eyelash details were hand painted with a 3 0 brush. (Yes, there are eyelashes on the screen caps, so I added them!
)
After everything was nice a dry, I went back and did a heavy black wash over the entire helmet. I don't usually do washes, and I worked quickly to keep it even over the whole surface. I dabbed it away in certain areas to leave a little more of the base tone, but basically the whole thing was "slopped" with thinned flat black acrylic paint. Gives it a really nice, grungy appearance. :thumbsup
So now I have another Red Squadron helmet to add to my collection! :cool
Thanks for looking!
Eric
During the past few days, I was kind of on hold for a TDH member's armor project (waiting for a new piece to arrive) and I took the opportunity to finish an X-Wing pilot helmet I recently bought.
I already have a couple of these in my collection and I wanted to do a paint scheme that I hadn't seen attempted before. This is the helmet of Red 9 from ANH, who is only listed in EU info as "Lt. Naytaan." He was one of the many pilots who died in the Battle of Yavin.
I always thought his helmet was wicked looking. Sort of a futuristic tiger design.
Here's a screen cap from the film to see what I was going for.
The kit was from Wilco Models and it arrived as a plain white styrene helmet.
For the main color, I chose Floquil Zinc Chromate Primer, which gave a really nice red-brown tone. The overall paint scheme on this helmet was pretty simple (compared to some of the other pilots!) and I simply masked the areas to remain white, and spray bombed the whole helmet.
The "V" markings, the "sliced onions" on the Mohawk portion, and the "flying ball" on the cheeks were decals from TDH member Lucksy31. Thanks Scott! :thumbsup
For the "tiger stripes" on either side of the Mohawk, I masked and painted them with Floquil Engine Black. These were trickier than I thought they would be to mask off, with a couple of shallow angles.
The eyes on the lower cheeks were also masked and painted. I had to do this in 3 stages; first masking and painting the main black portion, then masking that off and painting the gray outer portion, then masking it all off again the painting the yellow pupil. I hate waiting for paint to dry, so this was really tedious for me! :lol The eyelash details were hand painted with a 3 0 brush. (Yes, there are eyelashes on the screen caps, so I added them!
)
After everything was nice a dry, I went back and did a heavy black wash over the entire helmet. I don't usually do washes, and I worked quickly to keep it even over the whole surface. I dabbed it away in certain areas to leave a little more of the base tone, but basically the whole thing was "slopped" with thinned flat black acrylic paint. Gives it a really nice, grungy appearance. :thumbsup
So now I have another Red Squadron helmet to add to my collection! :cool
Thanks for looking!
Eric
