This is the helmet or "lid" as we troopers call it.  This is a shot of my Shepperton Design Studios (SDS) battle stunt lid just as it was when I took it out of the box. Clean.

As you can see it's all nice and new.  Just like the troopers in Star Wars, However; mine is a sandtrooper's armour from ANH which is very different, as you will see throughout my web site.  One of the first things you will see is the broadband communications antenna or low brow and the helmet decals. A sandtrooper has a high broadband communications antenna and the cheek and head decals have the distinctive stripes.

The first thing I did before starting the weathering was to remove the green lenses.

Once the eyes have been removed I started applying the weathering. The best method I used was to buy a can of textured sand coloured spray paint from the DIY shop. When this had dried I then sporadically touched it up with boot polish. Now some people say that boot polish doesn't dry. I beg to differ, it is very good for making your armour looking old and weathered. You can new see how effective the boot polish is. A little brown and black.

It takes some time to dry. I let it stand for 24 hours before I started anything else.

Now that everything is dried I put the flat lenses back and I have filled in the mouth with wire mesh to give it a bit more circulation replaced the decals with the correct ones just like the sandtrooper's from ANH.

I have also replace the head and tear drop decals on my lid to the ones a sandtrooper has. If you look close at the stormtrooper and sandtrooper from ANH you will see the sandtrooper doesn't have the distinctive black lines.

This is a shot of Andrew Ainsworth (SDS) at the NEC Birmingham Movie Memorabilia 2005