Hope this can help Josh out Paul...
Here is what I did with my Hudson helmet.
The 8 ball (I just paused the DVD on screen when I was painting mine, so I don't have a still of it...I think it shows up in the extended scenes with the hall guns when Hudson and Vas test fire it...look for a few frames in there somewhere...)
But here's what I saw enough to paint, it's on the lower back left of his helmet cover:
This is more contrasty than it really looks. All the written stuff on Hudson's helmet are faded looking, so it looks wrong if it's too bold.
Here is the upper left front (yeah, I got my hash marks diagonally backward. Dummy me! But once I had done one, I just went with it...what else could I do...it was paint...):
It's a grid marked into a 12 month calendar, with every month labeled and marked through, beginning with August and ending in July (When ALIENS happens in the timeline), and July is the only month not marked through yet.
"Man, four more weeks and I'm out!"
Here is a rough blowup of it from a B&W still I used for reference:
Just above and below the grid, are two longer bars, as long as the whole set, making it a box. Inside the upper bar it says, "Short Timer", and in the one below, "Game Over!". Neat that his saying is on his helmet. Note that you can barely see it, it is faded, and does have the exclamation point.
On the front right upper side, are the words "Brain Dead" and I couldn't see them, but they are reportedly there, so I just stacked them and made them look faded.
Best I can do. Maybe a set of frames can help further.
