So, I had a good time painting a Mandalorian figure for my friend, and when I saw a guy selling the same (awful-looking) figure for cheap, I scooped up another one for myself. It took me a while, and I'm not 100% satisfied with the final product, but it's enough for me to keep it going.
 So, this time, I thought I'd try white and grey. First off, I took the tan (sorry, the ugly tan) and painted that in a flat, very light grey--you can see the difference in the pants (painted) and the arms (unpainted).  |
| Snow seems to be the best backdrop for photographs, for some reason. |
I also turned the brown on the boots into grey as well, dark grey (above and below). I left the straps and kneepads as they were, though.
I liked the dark grey, so I took almost everything that was brown and painted it dark grey.
I couldn't decide what color to change the orange armor bits to, but tried white, and thought that it might work, with enough coats.*
It was starting to look like the prototype Boba Fett armor, which I've always liked, except that is just a uniform white, with no varying shades . . . and that shouldn't work, but it does.
I still had the brown bits, so I tried painting over one of them with black, to see if it looked good or terrible. I sent this picture to Big, and he told me to go for it.
All in all, this is less successful than the Ewok, and also less successful than the Mando I painted for Big.** But it still looks pretty cool, and the next time it snows, I'll take a photo of him standing in it, and post it here.
*Turns out, it took so many coats that the orange armor started getting crusty with white. It began to look more like bat guano than paint. But ah well.
**Could be worse.
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