STEVE THE SWEDE
Sr Member
All those recent Threepio threads got me inspired to go back to work on my old "zorg" head, kind of wamp him up a bit. 
One thing that struck me though was that everybody seems to display him clean. As you all know he only looked like that during the end scenes in the classic trilogy.
I recently got my self a DLP home theater projector, man is this the bomb to have for prop ref stills. When I checked ESB on it for the first time I was totally blown a way by all the details that I never been able to see before. Especially how dirty Threepio really was during the show. I quickly decided that I wanted to try and "re-wamp" my old "zorg head" to how it looked after it was blown away by the troopers. However, I feelt that just a new weathering layer wasn't enough so I also got myself a pair of "russrep" eye grills to replace to old resin ones. Man, these sure made a difference. So after five days of work I'm finally ready to re-introduce one of my most beloved replicas, Threepio ESB style.
[image]http://www.wackychimp.com/uploads/threepio-reweathered-1.jpg[/image]
He's been given a multi layer weathering over the vacu plated gold which is very hard to photograph. He's actually Way more dirty in real life.
[image]http://www.wackychimp.com/uploads/threepio-reweathered5.jpg[/image]
A close up of Russreps excellent brass eyes. These were a totall paint to install in the eyesockets of Zorgs head but I finally got them there. The lense material was cut out by me from a lamp reflector material sent by a helpful board member. Looks great doesn't it.
[image]http://www.wackychimp.com/uploads/threepio-reweathered7.jpg[/image]
Eyes all lit up. Each eye has a setup of three grain of wheat bulbs (no stinkin leds here) wired up by my brother. Some of the grainy weathering/dirt patterns can also be seen here.
[image]http://www.wackychimp.com/uploads/threepio-reweathered2.jpg[/image]
From the other side. Blaster scoaring can be seen around the neck bolt.
[image]http://www.wackychimp.com/uploads/threepio-reweathered-10.jpg[/image]
Last one. A close look of some of the blaster marks/burns.
Thanks for looking, hope you like him as much as I do. Now he has to go back to he's a IKEA cabinnet and whine about how I messed up he's shiny chrome plated face. Poor Threepio.
Steve.
One thing that struck me though was that everybody seems to display him clean. As you all know he only looked like that during the end scenes in the classic trilogy.I recently got my self a DLP home theater projector, man is this the bomb to have for prop ref stills. When I checked ESB on it for the first time I was totally blown a way by all the details that I never been able to see before. Especially how dirty Threepio really was during the show. I quickly decided that I wanted to try and "re-wamp" my old "zorg head" to how it looked after it was blown away by the troopers. However, I feelt that just a new weathering layer wasn't enough so I also got myself a pair of "russrep" eye grills to replace to old resin ones. Man, these sure made a difference. So after five days of work I'm finally ready to re-introduce one of my most beloved replicas, Threepio ESB style.
[image]http://www.wackychimp.com/uploads/threepio-reweathered-1.jpg[/image]
He's been given a multi layer weathering over the vacu plated gold which is very hard to photograph. He's actually Way more dirty in real life.
[image]http://www.wackychimp.com/uploads/threepio-reweathered5.jpg[/image]
A close up of Russreps excellent brass eyes. These were a totall paint to install in the eyesockets of Zorgs head but I finally got them there. The lense material was cut out by me from a lamp reflector material sent by a helpful board member.
Looks great doesn't it.[image]http://www.wackychimp.com/uploads/threepio-reweathered7.jpg[/image]
Eyes all lit up. Each eye has a setup of three grain of wheat bulbs (no stinkin leds here) wired up by my brother. Some of the grainy weathering/dirt patterns can also be seen here.
[image]http://www.wackychimp.com/uploads/threepio-reweathered2.jpg[/image]
From the other side. Blaster scoaring can be seen around the neck bolt.
[image]http://www.wackychimp.com/uploads/threepio-reweathered-10.jpg[/image]
Last one. A close look of some of the blaster marks/burns.
Thanks for looking, hope you like him as much as I do. Now he has to go back to he's a IKEA cabinnet and whine about how I messed up he's shiny chrome plated face.
Poor Threepio.Steve.
