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Let's talk paint colors shall we? Armor white is actually light gray. Taking opacity mapping into account, the colors are translating into the following... COLORS: Main Armor Color: Pantone Cool Gray 1C (or slightly lighter) Gray Armor Striping Color: Pantone Cool Gray 9C Orange Rusty Color: Pantone 7598C The shades of gray appear to be close to dead on. The orange color is difficult to determine until you get it weathered and into the sunlight. QUESTIONS / ANSWERS: "Why are you providing Pantone colors instead of Home Depot colors?" Answer: Anyone and everyone can get Pantone color reference books and with that reference book, you can make your own color matches or go find something close. "How in THE Hell do I match to Pantone colors?" That's a good question. We purchased a Pantone Solid Colors booklet from Amazon to give ourselves a good reference for matching paint. How closely you match it will depend on what types of paints you use and how determined you are. For the gray colors, there may be a Krylon or Rustoleum out there that matches closely. The orange may be a bit more difficult. We will be mixing automotive colors by computer to match the Pantone colors called out. These paints will be sprayed through air guns and airbrush. In the end, you may just want to go with white paint and rust orange. I doubt anyone out there will tell you that you are wrong. We just want you to know what the real colors are in the trailers.

Thanks very much. I'm working with Slave1pilot on the Sith Acolyte and with Stormleader on the Republic Trooper. It's a ton of work. The Republic Trooper will be done and ready by Christmas.

If you click on my signature banners, they take you to our blogs if you'd like to see more step by step through the process. More painting...

We are only doing costumes from the trailers since we have high detail reference. This is the Sith Acolyte from that trailer. We are also working on this simultaneously. First casting out of the mold....painting....

This is where we stand today...

Helmet mold complete... First test pull

Very early stage of the Trooper undersuit...

More test fitting....can't have enough of this... Test fitting on the big hoss!

Chest buck machined...

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Test fitting pieces to ensure fit... Beginning work on other parts of the armor.

Helmet has been assembled and is ready for detail work and coating...

Test fitting and assembly...

We are actually pretty far along in this build and I got the idea to post the build here so here goes... Stormleader and I watched the cinematic trailer for Old Republic recently. We got it in our head to make this armor. We think it's some of the coolest armor to come out of the Star Wars Universe to date. It's technically good guy armor but I believe that the Havoc Squad actually goes bad at some point. Anyway, this is the build... 3D modeling stage: Sizing and setting up the CNC files