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after painting the entire shield red i tapped the majority of the shield in a painters tape. i then used a large compass that i found in the shop and measured it out from center and drew a circle on the tape. i cut the cirle out wit ha sharp knife and peeled off the large cicle leaving just the empty spot on the shield for the blue. covered up the rest of the shield and sprayed the blue. the process for the white strip was pretty much the same, just made sure it was centered between the blue and the shield edge. and did 2 lines for the stripes peeled that off an sprayed the white

now with the white strip and the blue cirle done i basically layed out the star with tape. I used five pieces of tape for each edge of the star then cut out the over lapping pieces, made sure the top of the star was centered with the top of the shield (made that mistake before on another shield) taped off the rest of the shield leaving only the star in blue, sprayed it with the white a couple coats and peeled off the tape and done

i had another theory on how to do the star which is similar to the blue circle. tape off the whole blue cicle entirely then cut out the star shape and peel back the opening. i thought this would be much harder to keep the lines straight tho as i could not use a straight edge do to the curviture of the shield.

hope thats not too confusing, wish i had taken more pics of the tapped up shield but i was getting excited to see it done.all the paints i used with just regular spray cans i tend to like the automotive paints they usualy turn out pretty good but they are a bit more money. we did a shield for the pc game Oblivion and used a paint that was supposed to turn out like stone, they have alot of different types of "stone paint" but it really turned out nice very ruff stoney look.(have pics if interested)

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CorporalAmerica any pics of your light sabers? id like to see!

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Whoa those pictures where awesome try to make thor's hammer!!!!