Now, this dome isn't movie spec, but it can be made close with some additional work that I will document here. As I said, I couldn't wait to begin work, and got a little too ambitious for my own good. Using a technique I have employed many times on my costumes, I used a liquid masking agent (in this case, Mustard) and painted, wiped the masking agent off, applied more, painted again. Gives a very weathered, damaged look of chipping paint on something that has been painted over many times. Trouble is, it would see some of my paint had gone bad after a summer in the Texas heat. After the 4th coat, the paint began to crackle, split, and look like a mud pit after a drought.
It took me an hour to carefully strip all the paint off (and there was a lot of paint) with a paper towel and a small bottle of Naptha. I decided to stick a little closer to canon refferences and just do one layer on the R3 dome, with lots of scratches and paint chips. The pie panels are painted and I have started inital weathering.
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