- Hey everybody, this is Bernardo Escobar, and I'm here to paint the
Mandalorian quarter scale figure, this is the way. (bright upbeat music) All right, to kick this thing
off what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna base coat the
leather goods on him, boots, pouches bandelier, and some of the belt. Then I'm gonna go ahead and start putting on the leather color I mixed up for his belt and
bandelier got more of a red, red tone to it. What I'm gonna do now
is I'm gonna go ahead and apply a wash to the
leather accessories, the belt bandoliers and
all the little pouches and change the tone on them and just start weathering in general. I'll do a quick wash and then I'll get my
little makeup sponge here, which I picked out to
give it some texture. I'm gonna add a little bit of, kind of like a yellow ochre
mixed with a light orange and apply the weathering
and whatnot like scratches with my sponge here. Now, the weathering, it
would most likely happen on the high points or
especially where it's wrinkled or whatever it's gonna rub on or whatnot. So now what I'm gonna do is
give a wash of this raw umber slash purple, transparent
color mixed up here just to change the tone a little bit. I will remove just a little bit with my little texturing sponge here, get a little bit of this orange color and do more weathering edge work just to pop out a little
bit more of the highlights and I'll go back with different
tones of that orange color, yellow as well, and now I'm going in with
more of that wash color. It's gonna be more directed,
not an overall wash. I put the cylinder portions on
just to tie it all together. Now I'm gonna go in with my airbrush. I'll do an overall mist
of that purple brown color that I have mixed up or violet. Little sprits here of alcohol
and give it some cool breakup. Just a little dab of my sponge here. All right, I'm done with the holster and I'm gonna repeat the
process and techniques I did with that onto the rest of the belt, but using different tones,
making them different colors, some will be more red ,some
will be more reddish brown. This plate back here is a metal plate and I'm gonna go ahead
and just block that in, in black real quick. When I go in with metallics, I like to use black as a base coat. That's pretty much it
for the belt right now. Now I'll be moving on to the shin guards, which are a darker brown. Since this is like an armor piece, I'm gonna clear coat
it with a satin finish to give it kind of a
semi-gloss sheen to it. So I have the left shin guard here. I'm gonna give it a wash,
like a dust color, dirt color, and rubbing off the high point so that it stays in the crevices
like where a desk would go. Now I'm just dry brushing like
kind of like a reddish brown on the highlights. Since it's got two types
of leather color on here, I'm gonna go ahead and
mask around the part that I will airbrush a base color. Now go ahead and mask, this
really thin band of leather, another color, same colors as
I was using on the belt here, misting it really quick. So I'm gonna be adding washes, make this more of an orange
brown going in with my sponge, kind of giving it some
textures, just stippling or give it some spritz
of a key natured alcohol. It'll give some harsh lines
kind of like water lines and whatnot. So now I'm just adding
some scratches real loose and I wanna call on a little,
a little dry, not too wet. I'm gonna go ahead and fog
the edge of this leather piece with kind of a darker almost
looks like a burn effect to it where the center would look
a little bit more faded. For that I am gonna mask again. Once it's all tied together
and we get this piece together, we'll see what needs to be
refined, but for the most part, that's what we're getting. Now, I'm gonna weather this shin guard. Now dab off most of the wash just wanted to make it
look like it's dirt. I'll go ahead and hit these
two parts that I masked off with the color that I've
used for the other pouches. So now I'm gonna mask off
the leg flare so I can hit that strap with a different color. Stipple some of the lighter yellow ochre that I used previously
for weathering the leather and sponge on some little
scratches and chips if you will on the leather. That's it for the shin guards. Next up, we're gonna be
working on the boots. I already started masking the
portions that will be gray. And then here is my paint color, and I'm gonna airbrush on Let's undo the masking here. So I'm gonna go ahead and paint this trim around here at the raw umber. There's actually a sculpt. So I'm just following
that, blocking it in. Now I'm gonna block in the the soles. Just like I did the other
leather work for the pouches and the belt, I'm gonna
stipple with my sponge and brush going back and
forth to give these boots some breakup and show some
modeling of the leather. I'm gonna do one last
shading with my airbrush, just to get the depth. So I'm gonna shade around
the bottom of the shoe and bring it up just
so I can give the sculp and the detail the shoe some contour. That's pretty much it for the boots. I'm gonna go ahead and put
the color on the gloves. 'Cause he's got like orange,
yellow tips on the gloves. So I'll be hitting these
tips with this color and then come back and just start on the black on the gloves. Airbrushing this, I would have
to mask off the, the yellow. So there's advantages and
disadvantages of hand brushing or airbrushing. I'm gonna dry brush a
lighter yellow on here, giving some highlights to these gloves, just to make the detail pop, accentuate the sculpt a little bit. I'm going to dry brush gray on the black. Here on the gloves I'm gonna
put a transparent, raw umber, shading, gray dirt wash on
them just to dingy them. So what I'm gonna do now
is I have the hand guards and I am gonna mask off the triangle that he's got on his hand guard here. So unmask him. I'm gonna go get the base color that I used for the hand guards just a little bit of weathering to it. I mean, he's seen some
actions, so I'm gonna go ahead and add a raw umber wash. And it's gonna be very light 'cause they're not that heavily weathered, but just to give it some depth, I'll go ahead and do a little
pin wash around the edge just to pop out the detail. That's pretty much it for the hand guard. Now I'm gonna move on to the hip guards and I'm gonna start off
by base coating now. So I mixed up a gray color. I'm gonna add desk wash to
this and then just start removing a little bit,
going back and forth. Now I'm going back in and
just adding more of the wash in the panel lines, making it look like dirt
got caught in the crevices, and then I'm gonna use my toothbrush and I'm gonna add some
splatter of the same color. Oh, one more layer of splatter and at this time I'm gonna use the dirty, like oily wash of raw
umber and shading gray. So I've already based off the
suit and I'm applying a quick first pass of highlights. So I'm just gonna go ahead and mask. I don't want the bell to get
it with the highlight color. So I do it in an angle just to get the tops of
the wrinkles and folds. I'm gonna go in with the shading color now just to hit underneath around here, just to start giving it some depth. But now that I did the shading, I'm adding some just
slight more highlights, but this will be more
like a light direction. I'm not gonna do the back
so much because you know, the light is hitting this way. So we kind of wanna give it, you know, some realism and some depth. I like some of the wrinkles in the fabric. That can always get toned
down again with a wash, which I will do into the wrinkles. I'm gonna go ahead and
paint the cumberbun portion if you are the Valley portion,
which is a different color, different fabric here. So I'll go ahead and just
her brush in a downward mist. For the highlight color, I'll
just add a little bit of white mimicking the light with the paint. So I have a color here that
I premixed and then go back and forth and make sure it's got a good shadow going on there. Now, just like the
highlights with the shadow, I'll try to go under
the folds and wrinkles, so I don't blow out all the
highlights I did it earlier. You know, I put the arm on
just so I could balance out the shading on both both parts. So now I'm gonna shade a
Valley here, use a shading gray 'cause it's a different fabric. All right. So I'm gonna go ahead and give
this belly portion of wash 'cause it is slightly weathered. Quick wash on this whole thing that way, get the little stitch detail
and the detail in the panels. Also it gives it some breakup to. To remove some of that
highlight a little bit, I'll do a wash on this
portion so it matches as well. I'll add a dirt wash in the
panel lines just to give it a little dusty look. Just wrapped up the body and now we're gonna
head on over to Anthony who's painting the armor pieces. - Hi, I'm Anthony Maestas. I have some Mandalorian
armor here ready to go base coded primed. Let's get started. I'm laying down the
first coat of a metallic and we shoot it over black because black is the
best base coat to allow for that paint to really shine. The whole intention is to get
it as mirror-like as possible. This is a Chrome paint. You know, the reflectivity
of it is super bright. So basically what I've done is I've sprayed a solvent-based
clear coat over this a high gloss clear coat. What it's done is it's reacted
with the previous paint that we spray. It's basically kind of killed the Chrome and it's taken on a gunmetal look, which is what we want. Now that the gloss coat is dry, we're onto the second coat of silver. So this time we're spraying fairly light just to bring the luster
back up onto the piece. We're using the same
initial Chrome, all clad. Now that we have the second code of metallic finish on there, I'm gonna give it a protective coating with a water-soluble clear. And I'll be spraying this
at a low air pressure, just like I did with the metallic finish and then I'll pop it back up. It's a little bit darker. There's a slight shift to it. It's not as mere like. All right. The next step in the process is we're gonna be weathering the armor. So the weathering on this piece, isn't gonna be very heavy, but it's needed to kind
of bring in that realism. So now that I brushed the
color over the helmet, I'm basically going back
with the damp sea sponge, getting a nice stipple. And then I like to use a paper towel and kind of further stipple off the wash. I'm gonna repeat this process
throughout the armor set. (upbeat music) - So I'm gonna go ahead and add the armor that was previously painted
by my compatriot here, Anthony Maestas. Okay, now I'm finishing
off the helmet visor with some gloss, black. Just wanna accentuate
some of these wrinkles and just add a little bit more drama, just so it's, you know,
you can paint realistic. And then after that, you got
to kind of like, all right, let's pump up the drama it
kind of helps the piece out, I think I'm adding a dark wash on some
wrinkles that are really deep just to make them pop a little bit more. Like to use my Q-tip just to blend it in. I'll look at it through my
camera and see where it's at. So I see yeah, it's pretty dark there. It's pretty cool. We've gotta nice little beam
of a directional lighting there, here coming down. Next up, I'm gonna work on the thigh armor and I'm just gonna use some silly putty. Just do a quick masking. I have my color here that I'd mixed up. It's got a bluish green, gray color. So now we're gonna mask
off this side here. What I'm also gonna do is I'm gonna mimic that the paint got chipped from the PLAs or whatever he got hit there with. So I'll go around with some liquid latex. So now I'm gonna go ahead and spray that orange, brown color. I'll come back and start
adding weathering to it, getting it all weathered
up and dirty looking. I wanna get all these
landmark weathering chips and dings in there. It's basically a gunmetal. All right, I'm gonna add a
wash to this light panel, Sprits of alcohol to break it up a little. Like to drag it away or
push it into the corners, so it looks like dust has gotten
in the corner and whatnot. So I'm just cutting it
in with that blue color, just to soften up that edge. And then now I'll go back with another raw umber,
gray water wash on them to dingy it up even more. Now I'm just going back and forth and trying to get streaks in
there and some little spots. Okay. Now I'm adding scorch
marks around the wealth. Now I'm cleaning up some
of the scorch marks here. So I'll go back and forth with the silver and some of the black And now I'm blending back in
again with the shading gray. So now I'm gonna go ahead and hit the weld with a bright Chrome, but first I'm gonna apply a gloss black. So now that I'm unmasking,
I'm gonna go ahead and just tighten up here
with the scorch marks, clean it up a little bit. Now, polishing, just
to give it that sheen. Next step I'm gonna work on the child. So I just already established
a color, base coded it out and ran I was just hitting
it with highlights. I'm adding some circling here where I dial down the air
pressure on my airbrush. Now I'm cleaning up and
softening up the freckles or speckling if you will. And then I'll go ahead and add a blue wash just to tone it all
down and tie it all in. Break it up with my sponge here. Sprinting some alcohol to break it up and give it some blood
vessels and capillaries, and then I'll go in
with my brush once again and start manipulating some of those Now I'm gonna go ahead and stipple on my yellow, green color here throughout the skin. So airbrush and Magento on
there and then I'll go ahead with my clear red as
well, transparent red, and just blend it all in together. And I'll be going back and forth here with some yellow as well. Now I'm gonna go back and
forth throughout the face and just start planting colors around. I'll be going in and out of the ear with some reds and Magento's. Now I go back and forth
throughout the skin plotting in those colors,
popping out that detail at my transparent blues, some violets. I wanna go ahead and drop
some hair on this thing with a very light gray. And just add wisps with my fan brush, and I'll go back and forth with my sponge. Now to the eyes I'm gonna go ahead and start with my pencil
here and draw them in just to get the right position in shape. And then go ahead and use a shading gray just to base coat it and get a good beat on where they're gonna lay. Now I'm mixing up my
gold yellow color here that I'll use for the Iris. Using shading gray once again,
just to get a good position, not so opaque, just go very lightly. So now I'm just trying to get in there and add the striations, you
know, looking at the eye and getting all those little
striations at this scale very minute, little details
that I'm trying to get in there. Pupil is gonna be a little darker, so I'm using a glossy
black carbon black here. Cleaning up the eye here
with some gray white adding my sat and gloss,
which I'll finish off with the high gloss on the pupil. And there he is. The child all finished. Well, that was a lot of parts, but here's your Mandalorian
figure all wrapped up.
