You cannot find the right color with frames from the movie or pics online.They used so much different lights,filters and image processing...over the years so much people said that they have found the "perfect" gunmetal...but if this is a 100% match for you..its great.
Fantastic pics that have me DROOLING! My CFO is next and these pics have me so excited!
Rich
Mark has done a lot of digging to get to the color he used. I am the king at freeze framing ROTJ, its like a nightly ritual for me and his color is dead on.
Mark certainly has done a heck of a lot of research (and your helmet's fantastic!) but I know he won't mind me adding that his paint info came from me to begin with, following chats I've had with Ron Punter.
The original grey paint was a custom mix, sadly the details of that precise mix are long lost but Mark's found a very close colour from the same brand. If he's using the paint I think he is, it will be metallic but with fine metal flakes, which is as it should be. The original facemasks were painted this way, not lacquered but hand polished (some moreso than others).
When you spray clearcoat on a metallic paint its like a loupe...you will see the metallic flakes more.Good for Cars..bad for Vaderhelmets.
But if you polish the gunmetal direct you don´t have this bad effect.For me thats a proof that the Originals had no clearcoat.
That could be the reason why Mark didn´t used metallic flakes in his paint.
Mark certainly has done a heck of a lot of research (and your helmet's fantastic!) but I know he won't mind me adding that his paint info came from me to begin with, following chats I've had with Ron Punter.
The original grey paint was a custom mix, sadly the details of that precise mix are long lost but Mark's found a very close colour from the same brand. If he's using the paint I think he is, it will be metallic but with fine metal flakes, which is as it should be. The original facemasks were painted this way, not lacquered but hand polished (some moreso than others).
You cannot compare this helmet with "regular helmets"...you must compare it with TM,VP or SL.Thats the sphere of this beauty.
For ROTJ you cannot become a better helmet in my eyes.That why I spent all this money in a raw cast.:lol