It had a big turnaround today I finally finished peeling it. Now I’ve already painted a blackish brown and have started to paint a white layer. After that I’m gonna do a yellowish wash over it and paint the crack details.
Great! I’m glad it’s all off. But a word of advice for the yellow wash, depending on what look you’re going for, water it down a fair amount. Some masks obviously are more warm and ivory, while some are whiter (as shown below). I didn’t do any washes on mine to change the tone, but its all preference.
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No problem! I like that look too. I wanna buy another H40 and try it eventually. As said before, just make sure the wash is light, try not to make it too thick because it could really darken it and divert your aimed tone. If you sealed the mask before the wash and it has some trouble coming off with just water, you could try some isopropyl alcohol or baby wipes
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Yeah then it would look more like the kills too which makes more sense because it’s the same mask just without the fire damage
Pretty much! As shown in this trilogy of masks below, they all share that sort of ivory-aged base tone, with the Kills mask being the brightest, the H40 being more white, and the Ends being more green-yellow. But as said before: different masks, actors, stunts, lighting, etc. (excluding the picture with JJC’s white as heck mask vs the other two, just another example)
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Yea! I’d like to do a set of masks that abide with that continuity, luckily all I’d have to do is a yellower H40 and I’d be set. Good luck though!
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I appreciate all your help Bart thank you for sticking around😊
It looks killer man!! Great job!!
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How do you do the crack wash without ruining the rest of the paint job?
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So this is a bit tricky. You don’t want the wash to be any bigger than the area of the cracks you’re doing. I find this as an optional step as of now really, as I didn’t do it to my Kills mask and it looks fine, but if you want I’ll list the steps!
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I think its very reminiscent of Castle’s mask. For the process, you just apply the wash only in the general area/span of the cracks. You can try wiping some of it away after a few seconds, but this can again get tedious as you may have to keep doing this until you’re satisfied with how it looks. After that, just lightly dry brush over it and you basically got the foundation of the cracks, where later you can go in with a brush and bring them out more with oil or acrylic paint.
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I’ll keep trying and use your advice as I do, thank you for all the helpful advice my friend. And thank you for the compliment saying it resembles Castle’s mask.
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No problem man! Just ask whenever you need anything
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