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[bandai] C3-PO & R2D2


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Hi there,

 

As i see that i am not the only Star Wars fan here (there is a good bunch of pretty Star Wars kits builds here), this is some pictures of my C3-PO and R2D2 WIP

 

C3-Po was very easy to build

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R2D2's colors was not very nice in my humble opinion. The blue parts and the aluminium parts didn't pleased me so i decided to paint them.

So I sprayed a coat of white on the white parts, and a coat of Tam X4 blue on the blue parts.

Then i coated the grey parts with a layer of Alclaad black primer

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After a couple of days i started to spray some Alclaad aluminium layers on the black parts

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I've been very pleased by the alclaad render - it was the first time i used this product.

The metalic render is very good.

 

The only problem was that the R2D2's head is made from two half domes that don't fit very well...

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I used some Klir + talc powder to seal the gap between the two parts :

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The R2D2 main body is very great looking too (as the R5D4 provided with R2D2)

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The following steps of the build was very easy too

 

This is the Two Droïds at this time :

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And here they are included in a Star Wars back ground

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I'm thinking to add some weathering on R2D2 (water+ liquid soap + pastel powders) but i'm affraid to try a weathering on C3-PO because don't know what to use on that shinny gold and chrome plastics to keep them shinny and also because i read that some plastics used by Bandai don't like certain solvents and i no longer remember which ones.

 

Any advices please, some body  ?

 

Thanks by advance

 

Have a nice day !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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When I did mine I wanted them slightly tarnished, not so heavily weathered. All I did was apply some oil painting wipe it away after a couple of minutes.

 

I think it really helped pick out the details 3PO and the paneling on R2.

 

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I used a oil paint & solvent on R5D4 which I built 1st... It eat through his ankles poor soul... I did manage to save the kit but his feet are glued into place.

 

After a bit of experimenting with left over parts and sprue I figured out its the solvent not the oil paint that Bandai plastic doesn't like.

 

Have a bit of a play with some of the spare C3PO parts.

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On 25/01/2017 at 10:18 PM, Dreamcatcher said:

 

So just oil painting + wipe, no juice (oil painting + solvent + wipe)... interresting, i will try this on a old model kit.

Thanks a lot for your help ! :-)

Kind regards

Have you thought about clay washes?

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Hi !

Here is a first attempt of (light) weathering using pastel chalks + water + windows cleaner fluid :

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I've been pleased to see that the wash made with pastel powder + water and windows cleaner soap can also be used on alclaad !

 

 

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