freakengine wrote:
Darthminion wrote:
Hey I'm just wondering do you have a paint gun or do you just use spray can's like myself? Did you use masking tape or did you try to go freehand on it? I'm no expert but you should always use masking tape.
The gunmetal/silver on ANH Vader was hand-painted using a brush. If you look closely you'll see that the imperfections are part of the look. The definitely didn't tape anything off when they painted it and I followed suit.
Actually... there are several lines on the helmet from where they taped off. But it is unlikely they taped all the black parts off, just simple strips to get nice sharp lines between the colors - in fact... the reason these lines exist is because the tape was pulled off too late, where the paint had dried too much to level out and be plane with the rest, leaving an edge. Definitely sloppy work.