Some more Sideshow Paint masters

[korben44]

Brilliant work, moffeaton! You have some amazing talent. Very inspirational... Thanks for sharing your work.

-Kris

 

[Cenobite]

Beautiful, clean work! You must have a nice steady hand, and if not, you shure do now!

Question: you said you couldn't mask due to the paint. Did they have you using that 'cell' paint? I had a friend who use to paint a lot of toy masters for wrestling toys, etc and said it was some sort of paint used in the old-school painting of animation cells.

 

[STEVE THE SWEDE]

Pure awesome! Everything's top notch but I have to say that imo the AT-AT Pilot is the most impressive. Doing a pure and clean paint job in such a small scale must have been tough! No weathering means nothing to cover your screw ups. Truly outstanding!

Steve

 

[OdiWan72]

WONDERFUL!!!

You didn´t do the C3PO by chance?
The sculpt is wonderful, but the factory really messed up the paintjob with OVERapplying this dark brown weathering. C3PO is looking like a caricature now.

WIth your experience in modelmaking...do you think I could adress the weathering with mineral spirits without damaging the gold paintjob???

Thx in advance for your expertise!

 

[moffeaton]

Kat? I've never used cell paint but she's a WIZARD with it!

Beautiful, clean work! You must have a nice steady hand, and if not, you shure do now!

Question: you said you couldn't mask due to the paint. Did they have you using that 'cell' paint? I had a friend who use to paint a lot of toy masters for wrestling toys, etc and said it was some sort of paint used in the old-school painting of animation cells.

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I didn't. But I have done similar... I can't speak for what the factory did/used on Threepio, but I would try on the bottoms of the feet as a test. You can always strip and repaint!

WONDERFUL!!!

You didn´t do the C3PO by chance?
The sculpt is wonderful, but the factory really messed up the paintjob with OVERapplying this dark brown weathering. C3PO is looking like a caricature now.

WIth your experience in modelmaking...do you think I could adress the weathering with mineral spirits without damaging the gold paintjob???

Thx in advance for your expertise!

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And thanks, guys! It's truly gratifying work.

 

[OdiWan72]

I didn't. But I have done similar... I can't speak for what the factory did/used on Threepio, but I would try on the bottoms of the feet as a test. You can always strip and repaint!

Tried it yesterday without much success.
The amount of rubbing needed to remove the acrylic-paint (?) weathering affects the gold finish as well and makes the figures darker plastic shining through
I know acetone is no option, but I read of wiping it down with some alcohol? If that does not work either, I´ll leave it as it is and probably get the diecast chogokin C3PO at some point.

So frustrating

 

[jah5150]

If it really is acrylic, ammonia should take it off. I usually use Windex - it contains ammonia, and the smell isn't as bad.

 

[jkno]

He is indeed!

Here's another I did that popped up for sale. An EVIL R5.

http://www.sideshowtoy.com/collecti...astromech-droid-sideshow-collectibles-100383/

Already having it on pre-order. Great job, love it and cannot wait to join his R2-Q5 brother. These black droids will look awesome together :thumbsup

But curious why SSC chose this paint but the different head: