Kylo Ren Lightsaber Repaint

(What it looks like out of the packaging)



I decided to pick up a cheap BladeBuilders Kylo Ren Lightsaber for around $14 with the intent of giving it a new paint job. Its a very good casting of the lightsaber, the factory paint job is a bit lackluster though. I based the paint job off of some images I found, primarily of Prop Shop version.

I had to take the blades out using some force which scuffed up the openings a little, theres not really an easy way to do it.
I used Testors enamel paint right on the plastic, in hindsight I should have primed it because its Polypropylene, which doesn't take paint well. I gave it a few coats of Rustoleum matte clear coat to seal it in more.

I went over all the grey areas with silver. On the area where the techy bits are exposed i added a little gold around the edges and weathered it with some black acrylic. The heat discoloration on the two side emitters looks better at a distance, if i ever decide to touch this piece up I'll decide how to blend those colors a little more. I dry brushed silver over pretty much the while piece to make a more metal look.

Not bad at all. I recently redid one of these myself. I may need to post the results in a thread sometime soon as well.

I did decide to touch up the heat discoloring, here's the result.

Mark Roman said:

I did decide to touch up the heat discoloring, here's the result.

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:thumbsup I think they turned out great. This was the hardest part for me. I tried small rattle cans. The spray was too wide. I tried masking. The gradients were too sharp. I wound up doing a wet blending technique with a brush, but I had to weather it a lot to hide the poor transitions.



Only way to get these perfect is an airbrush.

Yeah that looks tough. Good work though! Sounds like masking the area and using an airbrush would be the way to go. Good luck!