Hi All, Thanks for your patience. Ive started the build and moving along, Learning a few new Technics in painting and what works and what doesnt.
Hope this build helps you along the way and comment along as you see fit. thanks kindly.
First of, I needed reference pics and collected these off the SWTOR still frames. These will provide me with the Colors needed and also any modifications needed to the Armor.
BBB Day Unwrapping -
Everything showed up fine with no damage to either the box and or contents which is great. Packaged very well preventing the parts from knocking around.
Theres alot of trimming needed but the lines are very visible as where to cut and a very helpful instruction manual.
Paint -
For all the Armor parts, they each received a 5 step paint process outlined below. Each of these steps cured for 12 to 24 hr between stages.
1) Krylon Fusion Flat Black (Primer and Paint)
2) Rustoleum Universal Flat Antique Nickel
3) Liquitex Heavy Body Black Acrylic mixed 50/50 with Liquitex Heavy Body Rich Silver. This was brushed on using a chip brush
4) Liquitex Heavy Body Bright Silver. This was applied using a soft terry cloth
5) Liquitex Heavy Body Black ( used for shadowing). This was applied using a soft terry cloth
Glue -
Loctite Ultra Gel
E6000 Craft Glue
Ab / Cod -
Trimmed out the part and sanded the edges. First with 120 grit to debur then 240 to smooth
Belt -
Here ive already trimmed out the part then painted with Krylon Fusion Flat Black., At this point, I took a piece of 1" leather and glued it to the backside of the ABS to both enhance Rigidity and hold its curve. I used my FO Ab plate to hold the curve.
Belt Boxes -
Taken measurements of provided boxes, ive sent these to have them commissioned into Functional Leather Pouches. Bobby from DarmensProps will be making them.
Saber -
Temporary, ill be using this one from UltraSabers until the accurate one shows up from VadersVault
Chest -
Ive trimmed out the plate and using 1/4 Sintra, ive added these reinforcements to the back side of the plate. Not that there was an issue with weakness, but i wanted to avoid any future issues since the 2 half's of the plate are connected at this one bridge. The 2 lower adhered pieces will be used to adhere the Fuzzy side of velcro so to allow the ab plate a soft surface to ride on avoiding the paint from scratching.
Next i painted the plate with Krylon Fusion Flat Black
After Drying, i added the next layer of Rustoleum Universal Flat Antique Nickel
Here , I blended Black and Rich Silver and applied using a chip brush. My goal was to create a brushed metal look to use as a base
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Here i allowed the part to dry overnight
Next i applied and blended Bright Silver to Enrich the color
Gauntlet -
After trimming out the 2 halves, i glued them together using Loctite Gel SuperGlue. For the greeblies, i sanded the back of each part then used the same Gel Superglue.
Gloves -
After hunting approx 100 pairs of gloves on Amazon, 5 hardware stores and various other outlets, ive finally located a very suitable pair of gloves. Purchased at Ace hardware. These will work great to allow the adhering of the hand and finger plates.
Hand Plates -
Here ive trimmed out the plates and adhered the claws and greebly to the plate. Dont forget to sand the backside of the resin parts to promote maximum adhesion.
Next i sanded the tips of the claws to a point. Then using Bondo Glazing Putty, i filled in all of the porous holes from the EVA Foam.
Painted them using the 5 step process described at the beginning of the thread
Shoulder Bells -
I wanted to do something different with the bells and since im doing the Lord Adraas version and they are hidden from view due to the robe, i felt they would look great if i tied them to the Mask. Using 1/8" EVA foam, i cut out the parts and adhered them to the bell. Note ! I should had asked if i was permitted to do this as i may find myself stripping them back down and starting over.
Painted black
Then Nickel
Then other stages
Painting -
Progress -
Thigh -
Here im gluing the 2 halves using a butt Joint with 1.25" wide ABS adhered from the backside.