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[jett drexel]

wooooh... that looks the bees knees mate... back plate looks pretty amazing too. your work is constantly an inspiration, hopefully i'll get to see one of your kits in the flesh soon.

[Ashen Kelborn]

wooooh... that looks the bees knees mate... back plate looks pretty amazing too. your work is constantly an inspiration, hopefully i'll get to see one of your kits in the flesh soon.

That would be quite cool to put a face to forum name :-)

Had a partial kit up to see if gauntlets were looking right as they were and only needed padding, I'm personally not seeing a problem as they are reasonably close already, but if anyone feels otherwise and willing to show me what I need to get them better I'm totally up for that as I want this kit looking as best as I can

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[jett drexel]

awesome.

[Rang Kemir]

I know i say it enough in person, but it all looks so cool  8)

[Ashen Kelborn]

I know i say it enough in person, but it all looks so cool  8)

Oh, its gets better (as you know  )

Full mock up day with the parts I have
Finally have visor for helmet

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And now the full body shots as it was a nice day, please remember I'm leaning back a little to keep the back plate on as its not fully attached as yet 






Back plate to jet pack curve is pretty good I feel too

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[jett drexel]

now i gotta go with the darker cape, that all looks amazing so far.

[Vhett Naast]

Dope man. I'd say your ready for some paint work.  8)

[Ashen Kelborn]

Dope man. I'd say your ready for some paint work.  8)

Not quite, but close 

Colours, the comic is all over the place, so going on that Jodo has been mistaken for Boba by even Dengar I'm basing the colours on ROTJ Boba.

Here is what I have come up with at this time, All are Humbrol colours as they are UK available paints and been used fro Boba's on TDH but will have rattle cans colour matched to them as I'm not very good with airbrush 





Gauntlets will be the same as knees and shoulders in colour (forgot to generate image, sorry)



I'm confident that they will be suitable 

Additionally, The damage will not be the same I will be trying to pull as best I can from the reference material, this is just for colours

[jett drexel]

that looks truly amazing.

[Ashen Kelborn]

Seems I was a little hasty and I aired on the colour front as I was using another reference for a Rotj helmet and parts wouldn't translate over.

So I have redone the colour chart for the helmet without the confusing lines (EDIT: Earlier post has most current proposed colouring)



I also started looking at the jet pack in Nal Hutta (as that's when he uses the pack with alternate missile topper) and found it was just beige with red on the tank toppers.

seeing this as another artist error I would like to propose that I paint like ESB Boba's pack using beige (once I match it) in place of the green.
The same red used for key slot buttons on the helmet (Red 60) in place of all the yellow
Orange instead of red thats on ESB and keeping all the details on the tanks etc
Would this be acceptable?

[jett drexel]

not argueing with you mate but i always figured the jet pack was more of a very tarnished silver and it kept changing colour due to its reflectiveness?

[Mando72]

Love Jodo Kast will have to follow and see the end results.

[Ashen Kelborn]

Love Jodo Kast will have to follow and see the end results.

Welcome aboard, how you enjoy the show and I do him justice

not argueing with you mate but i always figured the jet pack was more of a very tarnished silver and it kept changing colour due to its reflectiveness?

And there I was thinking now its more a concrete grey 

Anyhow, this is a poor mock up of what I'm looking to do with it, obviously there will be weathering etc, this is mainly for colours

[Ashen Kelborn]

Finally got helmet servo installed

And chest lights

All are still removable so I can paint


Productive day

[jett drexel]

this is looking really great.... love the attention to detail.

[Vhett Naast]

I'm jelly. Electronics always bring a kit to another level.

[Dha Bral]

Nice work Colin. Keep it up. 👍👌

[ConDar Ward]

I have to agree , Very nice work ....   8)

[Mi'ix]

I'm doing a very similar install on my MP very soon. 

Well done, Ashen.

[Ashen Kelborn]

Starting off small, here are the shoulder plates and knees

[jett drexel]

yet another master class... beautiful work.

[Vassk]

As a huge fan of Kast I have to say that I'm really impressed with your work here Vod. Can't wait to see it finished 

[Vhett Naast]

Paint work looks great man!

[Ashen Kelborn]

Bit more painting for the weekend and a little bit of rebuilding of the cod

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[Dha Bral]

Don't forget your thong