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Offline Darkmatter73

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Slave 1.5 - an MHS build
« on: February 23, 2016, 12:30:17 PM »
Hi all.
A couple years ago I built the Fine Molds Slave 1 kit, turned out pretty good. I had some MHS parts around, and I thought It'd be cool to try out the paint scheme on a saber.
All the same techniques were used in finishing the saber. Same exact paints too, they may not be 100% to the movie, but that's ok. The chipping and weathering effects are done with masking fluid, weathered more with pastels.   Also gave it 2 coats of matte clear at work, the finish is very durable.
Some areas have up to 4 layers of paint, also added some kill stripes ala Fett's helmet. I tried to keep the lines and patterns fairly asymmetrical, as it is on the ship.
There's a black triangular pattern in black on the emitter opposite the kill stripes, but it doesn't contrast well with the gray there ( it was an afterthought anyway )
The 4-40 and 8-32 screws are just decorative, but they give a cobbled together and repaired a bunch kind of feel. Anyway, here goes.
Tri-cree RRW
NB 2 / pex
red AV
recharge port
stock MHS parts
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Thanks for looking
-Darkmatter73

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Re: Slave 1.5 - an MHS build
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2016, 12:34:45 PM »
Beautiful paint job!


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Re: Slave 1.5 - an MHS build
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2016, 12:50:22 PM »
Great color schemes and weathering!

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Re: Slave 1.5 - an MHS build
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2016, 01:27:53 PM »
 :police: :police: :police: Sorry, according to article 9.5, subsection 8 of the nobody can be cooler than me act, 2016, this will have to be confiscated. It is officially, TOO COOL  :cool:

Please bring it in with complete amnesty to your local BaconWizard station. Thanks for your cooperation.

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Re: Slave 1.5 - an MHS build
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2016, 09:32:21 AM »
Thank you =)

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Re: Slave 1.5 - an MHS build
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2016, 10:51:56 AM »
+1 for that paint job!  The choke almost looks like marble...and i love it.

nicely done sir!

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Re: Slave 1.5 - an MHS build
« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2016, 11:43:11 AM »
I suggest getting a braided blonde hair extension to attach to the kill-key to echo his right shoulder braid collection


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Re: Slave 1.5 - an MHS build
« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2016, 09:07:01 AM »
Awesome paint job man, I feel the Fett in this!

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Re: Slave 1.5 - an MHS build
« Reply #8 on: March 14, 2016, 10:27:30 AM »
Also loving the exceptional paint job on this saber - very nicely done!  :smiley:

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Re: Slave 1.5 - an MHS build
« Reply #9 on: March 14, 2016, 05:39:29 PM »
Thanks very much :)

 

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