Landrotten Highlander Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 Nice effect, will be stealing this technique... spyrosjzmichos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyrosjzmichos Posted February 4 Author Share Posted February 4 21 minutes ago, Landrotten Highlander said: Nice effect, will be stealing this technique... Thanks mate! Here's the link to the video, too, so you can get the full picture (part 1 and 2): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMjuSZdHayE&t=602s&ab_channel=DoogsModels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R8zwalD8t8&ab_channel=DoogsModels Landrotten Highlander and scvrobeson 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaxos345 Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 Spiro, really like it so far!!! Interested to see the next stages, I want to see how the patina will change after the weathering!!! I have a question though... Why white aluminum and not straight aluminum?? John spyrosjzmichos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaos07 Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 That bare metal effect has been pulled off perfectly! The well-worn look seems tough to do well - I've never attempted to do so, but do struggle some with getting that authentic look with metal. You, sir, did an excellent job spyrosjzmichos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyrosjzmichos Posted February 5 Author Share Posted February 5 7 hours ago, zaxos345 said: Spiro, really like it so far!!! Interested to see the next stages, I want to see how the patina will change after the weathering!!! I have a question though... Why white aluminum and not straight aluminum?? John Many thanks John! The reasons I chose white aluminium was to create enough of a contrast with the underlying silver "primer" and to do some panel variation with the dark aluminium later. Can't really tell if the former worked since the dark gull grey mottling is more evident. The latter remains to be tested. John Stambaugh and zaxos345 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyrosjzmichos Posted February 5 Author Share Posted February 5 2 hours ago, chaos07 said: That bare metal effect has been pulled off perfectly! The well-worn look seems tough to do well - I've never attempted to do so, but do struggle some with getting that authentic look with metal. You, sir, did an excellent job Thank you Duane! The project is also an experiment so lets see how it'll turn out. So far it looks promising. zaxos345 and chaos07 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jep1210 Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 I'd say you nailed the effect. Looks very convincing. spyrosjzmichos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PEYSSON Gilles Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Good evening Your metallic effect is superb Gilles spyrosjzmichos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennismcc Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 That looks great, it reminds me of how the polished aluminium on my Honda used to weather on the salt laden roads here in the UK. Cheers Dennis spyrosjzmichos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyrosjzmichos Posted February 8 Author Share Posted February 8 23 hours ago, jep1210 said: I'd say you nailed the effect. Looks very convincing. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyrosjzmichos Posted February 8 Author Share Posted February 8 22 hours ago, PEYSSON Gilles said: Good evening Your metallic effect is superb Gilles Thank you Gilles! Hopefully it'll turn out decent in the end! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyrosjzmichos Posted February 8 Author Share Posted February 8 20 hours ago, dennismcc said: That looks great, it reminds me of how the polished aluminium on my Honda used to weather on the salt laden roads here in the UK. Cheers Dennis Many thanks Dennis! I was quite lucky when I came across those videos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crobinsonh Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 Really nice work. Thanks for sharing your ideas and work. I have a potential target for this effect when I finally get around to doing some more modelling. spyrosjzmichos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyrosjzmichos Posted February 8 Author Share Posted February 8 28 minutes ago, crobinsonh said: Really nice work. Thanks for sharing your ideas and work. I have a potential target for this effect when I finally get around to doing some more modelling. Thank you Robin! Not my idea actually. Got it from doogsmodels. Have shared the links to the videos in an earlier post. Have a look at those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyrosjzmichos Posted February 20 Author Share Posted February 20 Hello everyone! Here with another update on the Thunderbolt project. In my previous post I had finished the basic painting of the airframe. I made an effort of depicting the metal patina by spraying white aluminium over a silver base mottled with dark gull grey. The next step was to do some panel variation by masking various areas and painting over with dark aluminium. For the exhaust area I used steel. I admit the masking process wasn't fun but the end result was worth it. With the overall metal airframe done I then painted the antiglare panel with MRP olive drab using the black basing technique. Chipping was done by previously applying masking fluid with a torn up piece of sponge over the aluminium paint before applying the black and olive drab colours. With painting done I will soon be moving on to the application of the decals with the rather cheesy nose art! LSP_Kevin, Landrotten Highlander, Citadelgrad and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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