disaster! my airbrush broke at this stage, luckily he's nearly done and passable for some photos, will try figure how to do the rest by hand another day I think (just need to add a few more bits of rust, and varying tones from the waist down and then seal bits)
Also got to learn to use my camera
pictures are either too dark or too bright lol, too lazy to mess with the settings after doing a repaint
Reference photo
Obligatory before photo
(not bad, but felt like how he'd look if he was in the CW rather than ESB)
IG-88 photobombing in the background of those other pics still, he has been totally repainted too but I like his pose too much to move him to photograph
Will do some better shots soon, for IG-88 too
Still might try and do something about the red line on his chest looking like a hot dog too, only just noticed that haha
edit: here's a how to guide, any specific questions just ask, this guy is pretty rare on the net, so if you have one and want to improve it I'll try answer how I did mine
To get the body like that, i first sprayed him a shade of rusty orange all over, and put very little amounts of salt and hairspray on key areas, then I sprayed him all black, and got a cotton wool bud and wet it, and rubbed it all over the paint, which took a little bit off as it wasn't fully set yet, this left subtle rust marks appearing from the orange beneath, as well as specs from the removal of the salt and hairspray. Went over a few bits with a tamiya weathering kit rust colour, then sprayed a thin coat of gloss to give him a sheen in some areas. For the rust right in the panel lines, i just scratched away with a blunt scalpel to reveal the orange beneath.
For the head, I sprayed it with tamiya titanium colour, but any silvery colour that isn't blueish will do. Did some shading to give illusion of metallic surface in the nooks and crannies, then did some highlights on protruding bits with the miracle that is 'rub n buff', a metallic paste you put on in small amounts and looks like polished metal. I then glossed the highlights to make it look like theyre shiney metal.
The eyes were just painted dark green, then light green entirely over them, then that was sanded away with 2000 sand paper, leaving the light green only in the little channels between the eye fragments. lots of gloss over the eyes then.