Figure Era: ROTS
Year: 2006
Primary Appearance: Star Wars, Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith
Difficulty: Easy
The color scheme for this figure was based off of the Attacktix V-Wing Pilot figure, as I couldn’t find any reference pictures that were more “official”.
Recipe
Parts
1 TSC Clone Pilot (Shadow Pilot)
1 custom V-Wing Pilot head cast from Bantha5
Paint
Polly Scale Br. Ex. Dk. Sea Gray (F505264)
straps on chest armor, air hoses, belt buckle
dry brush used on light gray areas
Polly Scale Light Gray (505061) (RLM 76)
gloves, boots, helmet, torso, chest plate
Polly Scale Night Black (505214) (RLM 22)
visor, stripe on helmet, buttons on chest plate, touch-ups on black uniform torso, chest plate
9:1
Water
Polly Scale Br. Ex. Dk. Sea Gray (F505264)
wash used on light gray areas
Directions
Cut the air hoses from the clone pilot’s helmet right where they join the helmet. Snap the cast V-Wing pilot head onto the figure and super glue the air hoses back in place.
All that’s left is to paint! Note that it can take 3-4 coats of the light gray paint to cover up the underlying black. It may have been easier to use a white-and-gray clone pilot instead of the black one, as far as this was concerned, and to paint the necessary areas black. However, all the joints on the final figure need to be black, so I figured that using the black clone pilot would keep me from having to paint the joints and worrying about the paint chipping off with repeated movement.
References
The Droid Factory 