I'm going to ressurect this thread seeing as i have an ANH helmet to paint
Now you may or may not be aware paint brands here in the UK are limited and i don't really want to go through the hassle of ordering paint from overseas.
Also bear in mind it's about 5am and i haven't been to bed yet i suddenly remembered i had a bunch of old humbrol enamel paints sitting in the spare room so dug them out and went through them.
All i could find that was metallic was silver No11 and alluminium No56 the silver was way too bright i could tell straight off so i had a go with the alluminium on some spare black ABS i had sitting about i thinned it down a little and used a softish brush to paint it onto the plastic in thin coats with an almost dry brush.
It looks quite ok to me but this is where i need you fellas to chime in because as far as i know it could be way off i don't have any Vader helmets to use as comparison all i have is pictures also i cannot really take any decent kind of photos which really represent the true colour of the paint properly that i have used with my camera.
So i was hoping that either someone here has tried this paint before or could test it themselves or even just tell me if it is anywhere near close