Rank Badge

Rank Badge was sourced from RWA creations on the I.O.W. Contact Ross Walmsley on FB!

The mould was made for me and this is the accurate repro that he created for me (I was anal about details and spacing etc)

Nicely made! Great accuracy here

This is the original build with resin cast below


This is how they arrived at mine


So next up would be a little bit of sanding and prep, then on to painting. No other work required : 

Silver Basecoat
Silver all over first, then colours to suit Han's rank : 



Next up, I had to arrach them to the coat! :O

Well I will be posting about the coat shortly, but I didnt want to damage the coat so decided to use 4 x Neodymium magnets. 



Attempting to knock them off 'accidently'


To be fair I wasnt sure how this would work out, but they worked out great. On my test day out the magnets didnt move once!!



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