Some custom C-3P0’s

[NakedMoleRat]

Because I am a nostalgia monkey, I’ve been collecting the black series 40th anniversary, Star Wars, dolls in retro packaging.

I got the C-3PO, but I’m not a fan of the gold paint job. And since the package was cleanly opened when I got it anyway, I pulled him out and replaced him with my vac metalized bandai model.

So then, what do I do with the black series one that came in the package? Not to waste a good droid, I decided he needed a custom paint job.

I use the regular testers, gunmetal, gray, that I applied with a brush. I put on a thin coat to allow some of the gold undertones to still show through, and I think it came out, looking even more metallic.

I call him TC-42

 

[James Kenobi 1138]

That’s a pretty dope color scheme, I like it!

 

[NakedMoleRat]

Thank you

 

[Media Man]

Great weathering!

 

[NakedMoleRat]

Thank you.

 

[RLH421]

Because I am a nostalgia monkey, I’ve been collecting the black series 40th anniversary, Star Wars, dolls in retro packaging.

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I got the C-3PO, but I’m not a fan of the gold paint job. And since the package was cleanly opened when I got it anyway, I pulled him out and replaced him with my vac metalized bandai model.

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So then, what do I do with the black series one that came in the package? Not to waste a good droid, I decided he needed a custom paint job.

I use the regular testers, gunmetal, gray, that I applied with a brush. I put on a thin coat to allow some of the gold undertones to still show through, and I think it came out, looking even more metallic.

I call him TC-42

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He looks like he did when Anakin and Padme took him from Tatooine.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

He looks like he did when Anakin and Padme took him from Tatooine.

Now that you mention it…