Faction Colour Pallet - Imperial Start

After getting the tower combination prototyping with parts that could fit together and seemed to work, 
I started to work on colour pallets.

I started with the corporate dark grey metallic Imperial look with white light rounded end slots during prototyping and with just the grey primer.

Then with dirty white look suited to an ice planet such as Hoth in Empire Strikes Back and very dark gun metal towers painted black with a like metallic spray dusting and experiments with graphite powder.

Faction Colour Pallet - Switching Alliegance to the Rebels &

The Outer Rim Tatooine,  Jakku and Jedah

I then thought the rebel look associated with the desert planets like Tatooine or Jakku could be more interesting as allowed for more distressing and colour.

The distressing could also camouflage any rough work as it’s supposed to look rough, bashed, old, worn in, well used and more in line with the general Star Wars universe or worn in kit. 

So moved to more of a golden yellow sandy, rusty mixed metal look. This looked more jury rigged and the old look of a device from one of the outer rim planets such as Tatooine or Jakku.

The chopped-up Nerf gun, hair dryer, Warhammer and fast cast resin parts were painted in blend of aged gold, black, copper, dirty down rust, black and kaki dirty down. Generally, after primer, a black layer then light dust over in gold. This gave a bronze look, then added the washes making the appearance patchy.

The tower kit bashed and transmitter parts were glued with a mix of superglue and activator and epoxy glue depending on the surface contact. There was a rotating joint on one of the parts which I kept to give the appearance of tuning the aerials.

Also spray glued sand onto the outside then added dirty down sprays.

Star Wars Prop Upgrade Aug 2024

Enhancing the Worn Dirty Tatooine Look With Sand

The Star Wars Prop was made to look more authentic by adding sand sprayed with dirty down to give a rustier look and applying some iron paste to the downers and surface.

I used permanent spray glue to first spray the glue to make the surface sticky. I then sprinkled a mix un painted and Dirty Down spray painted sand, before over spraying in copper, aged gold and other colour Dirty Down Black Khaki and Rust spray.

For the control panels, patches of sandy rust were made using superglue, then sprayed over with Dirty Down Rust spray.

Enhancing the Worn Dirty Tatooine Look With Iron Paste

Having done some research in how to get the dirty greased looked of an engine I found out about Iron pate which was then applies into the nooks, cavies machinery and under hangs again the further enhance the real worn in look.