Re: Classic MPC C-3PO and R2-D2 uber detail build

Today I've been working on finishing up 3PO... Now that the poly clay is dry and hard on his head I began to foil it.  I really forgot how much I hate foiling.  It's a pain in the royal tuckass.  Next time I may just end up sending one of these out for a real vacuum metalization.  That would save a whoooooooooollleeee lot of time and punishment!  Anyway, here's the results:

After I finished, I was looking at a couple of photos online of 3PO and noticed something about his hands I had totally missed before.  On the back of his hand plates are 3 little pistons that hang off over the end of the plate.  At this scale they are really tiny so of course I had to fix that situation ASAP.  I pulled out some sprue from the 3PO kit and proceeded to stretch out some thin filaments.  Then I cut 6 equal length peices off and glued them hanging over the edges in place.  Since i still had all my foiling stuff out, I foiled them as well.  Looks so much better now... what do you think:

More to come soon.