Re: Finishing my Prop Projects - Paint removal on Obi Grenade
So I was home sick for the last week, so decided to tackle removing the paint from my Obi Grenade...
I would LOVE to have left it alone, but the beige paint just looked awful. I've seen a few on these boards that had a natural petina or rust that enhanced the grenade, made it look more of a Star Wars relic, but this was not the case with mine.
Talking to TeeCrooz, I went out and got a few steel brushes for my dremel and with some paint thinner, got working. Talk about tedious. I actually went through 6 brushes, and still have a bit to get rid of. I may leave it on though, so when I do the bluing it give it some texture.
I'm actually completely surprised how clean and crisp the cuts where under that paint. It's now looking a lot closer to the world of Star Wars than a badly painted WW2 relic... but I need to move it even closer to something that would be in the hands of Alec Guiness.
I'm not going to jump right into bluing. I want to think about how I want to handle the next step before I jump in.
If anyone has any other ideas, I'm open. I'd like to get as close to how it would have looked in ANH as I can.
Thoughts?