Canopy tinting

Just a thought, how about yellow food color with alcohol?

Ive seen where some of the sci-fi guys have sprayed multiple thin coats of future tinted with food coloring and gotten pretty good results but I have never done it myself

If you can dab up the excess as it settles maybe the dip would work? just a thought

You could always brush it on too.  Just dab the excess with a piece of paper towel.

Mike

Future tinted with Tamiya acrylic (flat or gloss) works fine for me, only thing to watch is that it needs to be sprayed pretty soon after thorough mixing as it starts to settle quickly.

I Mist a thin coat of gold or copper alclad on the insides of the canopies. It works best for me. Here is a prowler I did last month with said method. 

Judging by your screen name I am gonna take a stab and assume you are/were stationed at Ellsworth ? I myself am an Ex B-1 Crew chief as well. I was at ellsworth my whole career till I retired in 2013.

B One fixer,

Ty tons for the tinting tip, your canopy looks terrific !

Thanks Jay, I find this method the most convicing in my eye.

B_one fixer

I Mist a thin coat of gold or copper alclad on the insides of the canopies. It works best for me. Here is a prowler I did last month with said method. 

Judging by your screen name I am gonna take a stab and assume you are/were stationed at Ellsworth ? I myself am an Ex B-1 Crew chief as well. I was at ellsworth my whole career till I retired in 2013.

 

I did the same...painted the inside, but I used Tamiyas clear amber.

I have always tinted the inside, no matter what color.

Tining a canopy on a model and keep the clear parts transparent, I found an artists pigment that works great.

Mix 1 part Jacquard Pearl EX # 674 Interference Gold and 9 parts future acrylic. Pearl EX is a extremely fine pigment.

Paint a thin coat on the inside of the canopy. Creates a gold tint and pearlized hues from various angles. For F-16's, EA-6B's, F-22, and any others.

The interference is transparent and makes the canopy look coated instead of painted just like the real aircraft.

So where can we get this Jacquard Pearl EX # 674 Interference Gold ?

B1 fixer

The canopies look great. Never thought about using Alclad.

I have sprayed on the inside Tamiya clear green for the top glass on a couple of Hueys I did and they looked very good.

I have also thinned out Tamiya clear green and brushed it on the inside of the center windscreen section on several F-14s just enugh to get the hint of the thicker glass effect.

I think my biggest issue is that I'm trying to do yellow for the revell B-1B and the glass is very thick and already smoked out

Jay Jay

So where can we get this Jacquard Pearl EX # 674 Interference Gold ?

 

Most local art supply stores have them.

Their website is: http://www.jacquardproducts.com/pearl-ex-pigments.html

And you can order from Amazon.

Thanks Dave for your input, much appreciated Mate.

I viewed your gallery on Flicker and I must say that we have the same tastes in subjects but our skills are definately far apart.  Yours are quite good and I am very impressed with your modeling.