I've had this in mind for awhile, so when a customer asked for a Mando style Ascend saber with a lot of weathering... I knew it was time.
It's a 6 step process:
1. Powdercoat colours
2. Strip powdercoating in spots
3. Wear and weather edges and scratches
4. Carve battle damage
5. Flat black spray paint and a cloth with paint thinner to wipe off
6. Thinned flat black model paint touch ups
7. Flat clearcoat powdercoat
Then install all the guts. In this case it's a PC 3.5 with Tri-Cree GGW.