Looks pretty darn good to me mate.I allways loved following your build anyway Great work.

Neil

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Cpl N.Storey A12/TQ2.0.02132E1
MARINE RAIDER

Quite awesome...can't wait to see it in person at Dragon Con 2015... ... ...

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I alway thought the awesome paintjob should be a bit darker and grimier. Now its per-fect ! Congrats !!!

Thanks marines, you guys are the best.
Man, DragonCon... I am crying rivers already for not being able to make/afford SW Celebration in Anaheim this year. I must make more money (and time) it seems!

Damn you, expensive hobbies!!!

Yeah, I know, photos and white levels and different lighting and all that... but I just brought the two paint jobs closer together for another comparison test and wanted to share.

The various shades flow into each other quite nicely (between the original and my pic) and this is as close as I am ever going to get it with this particular set of armour.

Amazing job, ObiHahn. The only thing I'm not so sure about are the very big letters on the helmet. I absolutely LOVE everything else! Fantastic! This might be the best paint job on a colonial marines armor I've ever seen. I would love to follow your lead and meet you on some convetions in germany, but I simply can't afford that. I'm sure you've spend over 1000 Euro for it.

Thanks, MandaloreSC! It's actually way more than I care to admit, Euro-wise.

The big letters are a bit of a bold statement, yeah, but I had to include them thanks to this bad motherf****er (who is also the man the call Jayne!), may favourite character in all of the Vietnam movies I have ever seen so far:


For days when bold nerdy statements like that are not what I'm after, I have a camo cloth helmet cover coming. That will be way more subtle, slogan-wise.

I my self can only say One thing, i will be shooting a Lot of questions at you in the near Future about painting the armour if Thats ok.Like i Said amazing work well done mate.

Neil

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Cpl N.Storey A12/TQ2.0.02132E1
MARINE RAIDER

@MandaloreSC: Forget the cost for a moment and feel free to join us at any drop! The state of your build isn’t import to have a good time.

@ObiHahn: Looking great; and it would look even better when photographed at FaRK (ScFi background and bluish light).

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A03/TQ3.0.12136E1 "It will be no picknick!"
AL Colonial Admin. - Sergeant at Arms (SgtA) -- 2020-2022
GERCM - Executive Officer (XO)
UKCM Foreign Legion: The Deviant Dragoons

FARK still isn't a done deal for me, but there will be pics at RPC in Cologne.

BTW, quick edit, I have done some more small personalization, this time on the helmet.
It is a wordplay on my name Hahn, it means rooster or cock (tee hee) in German, that is why...


Too much? It's removable, only metal hot glued on metal.

I made my metal grenade that I got from Retrogarde as a static metal piece a "working" grenade, now the metal plunger can be depressed via a simple spring.


I have 3 of the (controversial) SD studios grenades from ebay on their way to me, let's see how they compare and if they will look okay displayed together with this one.

Today will be a meeting of our future ALIENS marine team at my place, and the other two grunts will bring their armour with them. Guess who's going to paint their camo as well?

Aren't you the lucky one!

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http://www.chefs-creations.co.uk/shop/index.php/colonial-marine

http://www.kgbairsoft.com/wordpress

If I had some armor, I would ask you to Dennis. No - I would try it myself, becoming frustrated, throw everything against the wall, crying out loud and then ask you for help.

Come on that is an invitation from your side. And it looks like you got with MandaloreSC another costumer.
BTW: The grenade looks great. If you can bring it with you to RPC
we can make a little comparison with the different versions we have.

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A03/TQ3.0.12136E1 "It will be no picknick!"
AL Colonial Admin. - Sergeant at Arms (SgtA) -- 2020-2022
GERCM - Executive Officer (XO)
UKCM Foreign Legion: The Deviant Dragoons

I've been a member of the 501st german garrison in past, Dennis. So it's absolutely possible we've met at some events in the past. I've been a Scout trooper (TB1301) and I have a large collection of Star Wars and Aliens action figures too. So whenever I see your pictures I think we have a lot in common. I too wanted my movie gear to be 100% accurate, so I think I can understand how you felt about your paint job issues. Not easy to match the original 100% when the light conditions on all the reference pics are different. The job you've done with your armor and gear is absolutely amazing. The grenades look great. I even like your cock - ehm - Hahn - ehm - got to go...

Thanks MandaloreSC, possible we've met, I'm in the 501st since 2010 or something.
I just now mostly finished something I have in the works and will reveal ASAP.

Here's something I have been working on, my own files for close-to-screen-accurate patches, these could not have been done without the generous help from Chef.

I also referenced the pics from the recent uniform on ebay, also the pics of the patches on Harry's site.


Please do not reproduce or share without asking me first.
There's something planned with Chef, since I have no access to any decent printers.

My files are vector graphics and could be scaled to any size without loss of sharpness and quality, no pixels involved.

Oh, and something I've been meaning to ask you guys: does anyone have or know how ro find the TTF /TrueTypeFont "Keypunch" with actual lowercase letters? All I can find is the font with the capitals as scaled down versions for lowercase use. :/

I can't wait to see your gear at Dragon Con...

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My M56 Smartgun build: http://forum.alienslegacy.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14382

DragonCon would actually be awesome, doesn't look like I can make it at the moment. :/

Good thing is you have 6 months to find a way to get there.

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USS Blackhawk
3rd Batt 12th Regt

Thanks for posting that Alien War pic... really looks like 120 there, with 30 for the dark green... hmmmmm...

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Yeah, right? That's what I thought. The weathering really makes the individual hues kick and gives them a VERY accurate look. I will post a comparison pic soon of my gear painted fresh from the tin and in different states of weathering, including final version.

And here's a preview of my final vectorised files for accurate(ish) patches, it's as close as I am going to come to the real deal using the references I had access to.



Almost the final piece to the puzzle that is my finished costume.

The original font is named "Data 70", designed by British artist Bob Newman for the Letraset Type Studio in 1970.

It does have proper lower-case letters.