And with some Echo Base lighting. Looks more cold.
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And with some Echo Base lighting. Looks more cold.
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And with some Echo Base lighting. Looks more cold.
You did the alcohol treatment on the dome? Looks great.
Yeah, makes such a difference. Brings out a bit more shine and a bit more grime.
Thanks.
Here are a couple more shots indoors.
There's 12 steps to it but you first have to admit that there's a problem.
Basically it just involves using some isopropyl alcohol (maybe diluted a bit if you have a high %) on a cotton ball or q-tips in order to smear some of the uniform weathering on the dome. Most people have still left a lot of the grime on there and pushed it more toward the panels where it might build up more naturally. It brings out a bit more of the brightness on the dome and since it's pushing some of the weathering together it makes the grime darker, which improves the contrast. It's very easy to do and if you overdo it you just have a clean dome that needs to be weathered.
You can search the thread with either isopropyl or alcohol and probably find some much better instructions and see everyone's results from back when R2 first came out.
You can search the thread with either isopropyl or alcohol and probably find some much better instructions and see everyone's results from back when R2 first came out.
galactiboy
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Looks brilliant TonTon; I think when I remove the chocolate milk from C-3PO I'll finally do the same with R2 and fix his dome.
And it won't damage the plastic?
Nobody has reported any ill effects as far as I know. Others have used the alcohol on the body as well, which I believe is unpainted aside from the grime, but I only did it on the dome. I wiped it down with some water afterward.
Thanks. It's actually the R2 body which I'm thinking of de-weathering, along with that of my sandtrooper.
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Has anyone else's touch panel broken on this? It works to switch it on, but it won't switch to the other mode and won't switch off
Just searched through the thread and cannot find anyone else having this issue, I don't understand it. The touch panel works fine to turn the lights on, but a second tap won't switch on the projector light and a third tap won't switch it off, in fact once it's on I can tap it a thousand times and it just won't switch off at all!
Solo_bones
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And with some Echo Base lighting. Looks more cold.
Awesome. Looks really well done, TonTon. I am really trying to hang on for HT.....but I really think they did a great job on this....despite the sizing issue. Can anyone tell me how it looks in person? Does it seem wider that it is in photos?
Raiders March
I shouldn't have bought that!
Your the first person to report this problem. You would have get into the dome, which can be done, but you may go to all that trouble and not be able to find an answer. Did you buy it directly from sideshow?
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