Din Djarin - The Bounty Hunter

Starting this kit with the diorama and the back wall. 

I'm not a fan of the texture on the wall itself, it looks a bit too uniform so I want to try to roughen that up to look a bit more realistic.  

First I primed the whole part using Vallejo Light Ghost Grey. 

Then masked around the areas that I need to keep smooth/clean. 

In a technique 'borrowed' from Ma.K, I'm using Mr Surfacer 500 to paint on by hand then using the brush to dab at the primer to roughen it up as it dries.  

Happy with that 😄, makes the texture look more realistic and less uniform as I'm not able to be that accurate replicating the level of roughness with the Mr Surfacer and brush. 

Brush painted over the Mr Surfacer with US Desert Sand for the wall colour. 

Removed the masking and brush painted the panel surrounds and lights Metallic Chrome, I wanted it to look rough so did it with a paint brush and not spraying.  

Close up of the left hand panel buttons in Fire Red, Light Green & Sea Blue. 

Lamps painted Yellow. I tried with white as per the kit call outs but it was too close to the Chrome so didn't look too good. Tried transparent yellow first but the brush marks showed up too much so overpainted with 'normal' yellow paint. 

Masking in place for the door (and a bit of free advertising for Kent Models 😄) 

Painted with wood (Vallejo Air 71.077) and that's the wall fully painted. 

Time for the base, primed with Mig One-Shot Sand. Plan is to add actual sand over the top of this so not too worried if it's a bit patchy (and it is!!)  

Painted the base with scenery (PVA) glue and then sprinkled sand over the top. 

"Barrels" primed black then painted with Metal Colour Aluminium. 

Rusted then up a bit. 

"Barrels" fitted into the base. 

Built up and then primed the Stormtrooper helmets with Mig One-Shot White. 

Did the detail painting with Black-Grey, Metallic Steel and used Panzer Dark Grey for the poles. 

Gloss coated them using Tamiya TS-13. 

Added all the decals and another coat of gloss to seal. 

Aged up the ones on the floor with a light directional coat of Middlestone. 

Fitted the floor Helmets into the base. 

On to the two helmets on spikes and sprayed the spikes with Panzer Dark Grey (as you can see, usual UK Summer happening outside 😄) 

Then aged up the helmets, again using Middlestone with directional spraying 

Using this as the reference photo. I'm not going to cut out the cracks and holes but can make the "rags" hanging down from the helmets, just need some loose weave material. 

A dig in the first aid box finds some gauzy bandage that will be ideal 🙂 

Cut two strips ready to colour. 

Dipped the strips into Agrax Earthshade and now they look better 😎  

Strips cut down and glued to the underside of the helmets using CA glue. 

Spikes fitted into the base, used CA glue again for these as they wanted to fall over using normal Tamiya glue and I couldn't hold them upright easily. 

Decal and the wall added and that's the base complete 🙂 

On to Mando himself. Started with gluing the two halves of the body together. 

Quite a lot of the seam needed filling and sanding back and was a bit awkward especially as the surface is "wrinkled" but it turned out OK. 

Mando body primed with Mig One-Shot Grey. 

Sprayed the jumpsuit Dark Brown. 

Hand painted with Medium Grey on the front and Black Grey for the cape around the neck. 

Parts for the lower left leg primed with Mig One-Shot Grey. 

Painted the boot Mud Brown and the sole Grey-Black. 

Leg parts sprayed Mud Brown. 

Knee armour, Medium Grey and Metallic Steel on the knee rockets. 

Leg parts sprayed Mahogany brown. 

Mahogany drybrushing on the mud brown parts gives a nice worn leather effect 😎 

Left leg assembled. 

Right leg parts primed with Mig One-Shot Grey 

Right leg parts sprayed Mud Brown & Black-Grey as before. 

Right leg "shin guards" sprayed Dark Brown. 

Mahogany drybrush on the leather parts & Metallic steel on the cartridges. Medium grey behind the holster. 

Right leg assembled.  

Beskar parts (plus the visor) primed with Gloss Black. 

After drying overnight the Beskar parts are all sprayed with Metal Colour Duraluminium. 

Made a start on the hands. Hand painted the gloves Grey-Back and the fingers Sky Grey for now, trying to paint Yellow over Black would be impossible so lightened them up first. Gun is Metallic Black with a Chrome "stripe" behind the end of the barrel, butt is painted Mud Brown. 

Hands are done. Just 2 coats of Yellow to do the fingers, the Sky Grey first did the trick 😎. Just a few touch-ups afterwards and painted the Red on the gauntlet rather than using the decal 

Hands from the other side as well. 

Most of the parts are painted except for the cape and one of the thigh armour pieces so time to start assembly. The jumpsuit had a drybrush with light brown to pick out some highlights and give a little depth. 

Decals added to the back of the hands 

Parts added to the front of Mando. 

And some more around the back. 

Cape and hands added and taped while the glue dries 

Helmet added. Tip - if you build this kit then glue the helmet to the neck ball as it wobbles around and droops if you don't 

Had a bit of an oops gluing the helmet as you're adding the visor and the two halves of the helmet, be careful that no glue seeps out like mine did and I ended up with a nasty fingerprint while squeezing everything together. I'll face that side away anyway so no harm done 😎 

Small bit of sand pastels on the boots and lower leg 

Mando is complete 🙂