FINISHED!!! REFIT is done,hand painted aztecing

QUOTE: Originally posted by Fish-Head Aric You mean the patchwork effect that a lot of ships show to look like paint that didn't quite match on some of the plates? Always thought that development in Sci-Fi ships was rather interesting. I seem to recall it really taking on with Start Trek Next Gen and Babylon 5 with the heavy intro to computer graphics for ships and such. That the aztecing look?

That's the stuff. It was used for a couple of reasons one is it adds more of a sense of size and shows more of the contours rather than just a flat surface and the other (and my personal favorite) is it offers more eye candy for the viewers

You mean the patchwork effect that a lot of ships show to look like paint that didn't quite match on some of the plates? Always thought that development in Sci-Fi ships was rather interesting.

I seem to recall it really taking on with Star Trek Next Gen and Babylon 5 with the heavy intro to computer graphics for ships and such.

That the aztec-ing look?

QUOTE: Originally posted by Fish-Head Aric Very nice models! Stupid question time from an outsider... What is aztecing?

Nice job grasshopper!
Aztecing is the patern that you can see on the saucer section of grasshoppers Enteprise.

Very nice models!

Stupid question time from an outsider... What is aztecing?

Well I got it on my shelf,it takes up the whole top of my bookcase in my bedroom,I am just glad it is almost done. I am waiting until the weekend to do the decals and the final gloss coat.

I really like the great response for help I received from you guys.I am so glad that you are all here.

My next project is making a NX Columbia model with the 1/1000 kit that just came out. I will probably buy the masks for these. Does anyone have any ideas where to get them?. Any Help would be appreciated,thanks.

Just take your time and you should be alright, did a 1701D by hand myself, tool a week or so to do, a little bit at a time

Well I think the only way to do this without paying through the nose for the masks is to make your own masks with graphic artists frisket paper or like your doing by hand painting them.Either way is going to be alot of work.
Good luck!

Try this,

www.starshipmodeler.com


look in the Star Trek forum. Also, there are painting masks available, but they run about 80 bucks I think.

Hope this helps

Henry