So I had another FX bucket I was going to put together and thought, "Why not try and make this one better?" By "better" I meant... 1) Smaller in size 2) Better shaped 3) More well put together 4) Generally more accurate looking Of course the...

Well, after finishing my MR CE I wasn't 100% satisfied.  There was a lot of "orange peeling" on the paint job, and I had placed the tube stripes a little too low.  I could've simply replaced the tube stripes, but I thought, while I was at it, I'd go...

Here's the final MR CE... fully modded and fully complete.  I'm very, very happy with the results!  There are things I might have done differently now that I've done it, but nothing I would've done differently while I was doing it... so, in other words,...

I got my new brow trim from McMaster-Carr, product #8507K41.  To prepare to add it to the bucket I needed to trim the back of it.  I inserted a metal ruler in between the layers so I wouldn't cut through the back to the front.  I left just a tiny bit...

Once the helmet was all white and nice and shiny I was ready to do the detail painting.  This included the frown, the traps, the vocoder, and ear bumps.  I used Testors grey 1138 and flat black.  I got a VERY tiny brush from Michael's to paint with....