There were a couple of encouraging posts
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so I'll add some more pics of my repaint.
Big thanks to Rubio for giving me tips on how the figure comes apart. It made painting so much easier!
I began by disassembling most of the figure into its main components. Here are the unaltered pieces.
After that, I went a bit further and removed the torso armor from the vest. This is a more permanent mod,
as the pieces have to be glued back on. I also disassembled the helmet. It's really amazing how many pieces
go into this figure! Even the dark "lens" on the left chest plate is removable. I gave everything a nice coat
of Tamiya fine surface primer.
Since I'm a prop guy, I have a lot of nice quality Polly Scale paints, many of which were the colors used on
the original props. I mostly used those colors for my palette, along with a handful of other brands. Here are
some pics of the finished figure.
I airbrushed the base colors on, using light coats to build up the color and leave things a bit uneven. Details
were added using a couple of light shades of colored pencils. I even added the black spatter seen on the green
armor parts using a very thinned down mix of flat black.
Here's a closer look at the spatter, including some that I dotted on with a 10/0 brush.
On all the parts, I got things as close as I could to the reference photos I have of the ROTJ suit instead of
the more "impressionistic" paint job that Hot Toys went with. Here are a couple of shots of the knee and
shoulder armor. The stains and darker spots were done with colored pencils.
I even added the colored rings on the knee darts.
The gauntlets received a dark wash, then the silver damage.
Another couple of shots of the helmet. This was really challenging to paint! Everything is so small, LOL.
So that's my mod! It's a great figure to begin with and makes a really impressive part of my collection. I just
wanted things to look more like ROTJ than a stylized version. Thanks for looking.