Cleaning and Painting The Armour.

With the replacement greeblies now made and moulded, I began the long task of dremelling and cleaing all the lines and detail on the armour. In many cases having to completely redo detail that had either been lost through time and wear or simple neglect. Once the greeblies were on the back securely with some nice tiny brass bolts I finished the clean and shot it with four coats of grey Simoniz primer. On to this for my base silver I chose Vaxhaul Metalic Silver No# 31. It's certainly close enough for me and best of all I could get it in profusion which was what I really wanted. It would have been a nightmare to get, say two thirds the way in on the build only to find I would have to use ANOTHER base tone.



Back armour cleaned, primed and base coated.



Front chest armour cleaned, primed and base coated
(a new pectoral grill has been made cast and added here as well as accurate real bolts as well)



Font and back together.

At this stage I left both pieces for around a week for all paint to truely harden while I began on the arms. The process was the same. First I stripped them down completely and then whilst researching online for images of any surviving suits AND other peoples builds and using screen caps from the BluRay I once more realised there were elements that were either fading with time OR comepletely missing. So back to the lathe and more turning and casting. More moulding and then more dremelling (you will notice that this is a MAJOR theme throughout this refurbishment LOL) once again, and I was good to tackle the arms directly.

Left arm cleaned and primed.

Missing rear greeblie made, cast and replaced on Left arm.



Left forearm shot with base coat.



Font, back, and both arms with forearms cleaned, primed and base coated.

With the exception of the helmet, the upper sections of armour were now ready to be shot with colour, but again, I felt it would be best to leave them a nice period to really harden off before I worked on them some more. This of course gave me the opportunity to begin working on the legs and any number of the 12 million other jobs that this project had created!