Howlrunner
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Been working on painting up the fantastic EV-9D9 head sculpted and cast by zorg to add with my 8D8 and 2-1B.
The base colour was a pain to try to nail - blu-ray screencaps make it look a slightly different colour that the exhibition photos which are then a different colour again to the exhibition photos that have been taken with the flash on! In the end I went with a base of Rover Russet Brown with a light overcoat of Ford Roman Bronze - both spraycans from Halfords.
Again, weathering was tricky as the exhibition photos make the weathering look virtually non-existent. I went a bit heavier on the weathering that the actual prop may have, but worked well for how I thought she should look, and gave the weathering a little bit of a Boba Fett helmet feel, with multiple layers of different chipped colours rather than just drybrushed edges.
Also added brass tube in the eyes. I have LED's in the eyes, but they're the wrong colour ("white" instead of "warm white") so have ordered new ones and will swap them once they arrive.
I added aluminium mesh to the underside of the top jaw (as seen in the exhibition photos). I'm still toying with the idea of adding the lower jaw, but I'd need to find appropriate sized ribbing for the lower surface behind the jaw and I can't find anything that has half-inch wide half round rods with a low enough profile so they don't stick out from the edge overlap. If I stumble across something I'll likely go back and add the lower jaw, but for now she's done.
The base colour was a pain to try to nail - blu-ray screencaps make it look a slightly different colour that the exhibition photos which are then a different colour again to the exhibition photos that have been taken with the flash on! In the end I went with a base of Rover Russet Brown with a light overcoat of Ford Roman Bronze - both spraycans from Halfords.
Again, weathering was tricky as the exhibition photos make the weathering look virtually non-existent. I went a bit heavier on the weathering that the actual prop may have, but worked well for how I thought she should look, and gave the weathering a little bit of a Boba Fett helmet feel, with multiple layers of different chipped colours rather than just drybrushed edges.
Also added brass tube in the eyes. I have LED's in the eyes, but they're the wrong colour ("white" instead of "warm white") so have ordered new ones and will swap them once they arrive.
I added aluminium mesh to the underside of the top jaw (as seen in the exhibition photos). I'm still toying with the idea of adding the lower jaw, but I'd need to find appropriate sized ribbing for the lower surface behind the jaw and I can't find anything that has half-inch wide half round rods with a low enough profile so they don't stick out from the edge overlap. If I stumble across something I'll likely go back and add the lower jaw, but for now she's done.
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