Tuesday 18-Jan-2022, 07:48 PM
Made some progress on the weekend!
In Revenge of the Sith all the Kashyyyk scenes look to have a grey filter applied over them. This gives the atmosphere of a gritty war torn beach, and not a lovely bright beach side holiday.
You can actually see a tiny picture of a Clone Scout without the filter in the book "Star Wars Chronicles the Prequels". Compare him to the scout below! His leg is way brighter than the rest.
So to replicate the grey filter I purchased some "smoke grey" from MTN 94. This is a 1/4 strength spray can, meaning mostly clear with a hint of grey.
Gingerly applying it to my suit I got the results I was looking for, a "washed out" look.
I think this is the effect I need! In real life especially, all the colours have settled down and don't jump out at you anymore.
I've also added some brown paint to the undersuit to address some purply tones which has worked great.
(Note how little foam I have in the top of the helmet so it sits down far enough, yeh, the mould for this bucket needs some serious work Bikerchick...)
I made a fan system for my helmet also, the dual fans pipe air down a rubber hose and it blows out over my visor, keeping it de-fogged. Looks messy yes but it works
Only a few more tweaks now!
In Revenge of the Sith all the Kashyyyk scenes look to have a grey filter applied over them. This gives the atmosphere of a gritty war torn beach, and not a lovely bright beach side holiday.
You can actually see a tiny picture of a Clone Scout without the filter in the book "Star Wars Chronicles the Prequels". Compare him to the scout below! His leg is way brighter than the rest.
So to replicate the grey filter I purchased some "smoke grey" from MTN 94. This is a 1/4 strength spray can, meaning mostly clear with a hint of grey.
Gingerly applying it to my suit I got the results I was looking for, a "washed out" look.
I think this is the effect I need! In real life especially, all the colours have settled down and don't jump out at you anymore.
I've also added some brown paint to the undersuit to address some purply tones which has worked great.
(Note how little foam I have in the top of the helmet so it sits down far enough, yeh, the mould for this bucket needs some serious work Bikerchick...)
I made a fan system for my helmet also, the dual fans pipe air down a rubber hose and it blows out over my visor, keeping it de-fogged. Looks messy yes but it works
Only a few more tweaks now!