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[morgenes]

Well, it's less than two days to DragonCon and my costume's coming together. I tried to take pictures of my process as I went through and modified the goggles from the original VG800-H5s to try and make them look closer to the original. Here's what I came up with:

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[cyniccat]

Very nice sir. I think yours are the best I've seen yet!

[morgenes]

Thanks! I realized early on that it wasn't going to be a perfect match, but from a distance the coloring is right, and the six vents make it much more similar.

[cyniccat]

I know, I wish I had an extra pair around to destroy for the additional vents. What color did you use to get the tarnished rust color on there?

[morgenes]

I combined gold and black acrylic paints to a dark gold color, putting it on in patches with a thick wash. before it dried I went back with a balled up paper towel to pick up a lot of the excess, giving the pattern that is visible in it. I upped the level of black in it to get the sootier look near the vents.

[cyniccat]

Spray acrylic or brushed on?

I had thought mine were done, but now you got me wanting to do a coat of gold w/ the balled up paper towel thing.

[morgenes]

Just brushed on acrylic. I use Apple Barrel paint because it's much cheaper and available at local craft stores, but it's the same kind of stuff people use to paint model miniatures. Combine gold and black, water it down and apply over the area you want to distress. Wad the paper towel and press lightly to pull off some of the paint and produce a nice pattern.

Good luck!