It might have been last year, it might have been ten years ago--that's how these things work--but I grabbed a couple of Star Wars guys and did repaints on them, just for fun. Now, Big Anklevich is finally creating his space station, and I thought I could make a couple of repaints for him to have walking around his station. The movies have shown us that the R2 unit and Protocol Droid designs are so good that you can paint them practically any color (or combinations) and they will look good, so I am going to test that theory.
Here's my first one:
This is just a standard late 90s/early '00s R2-D2 with the third leg. It has a chromed dome, so I put tape over it to protect it from the grey primer that I've been told you should use first, so the paint sticks better to the figure.
I didn't take a photo of him when he was grey, whoops (but I did on the next one), but I decided to put black where there had been white and green where there had been blue (plus a little extra).
It did NOT come out great, but as I said before (and will continue to say as I do more of these), the droids look pretty good even with a crappy paintjob, partly because of the great design, but also because of Lucas's idea of a "used universe," where things were old, beat-up, or falling apart.
Above is the finished product. It looks awful to my eye, but Big Anklevich, whom I gave it to, said it would be a fine addition to his space station. Which was nice.
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