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Has anyone got a good technique/materials for a ship stern on fire? Use cotton, plaster molding? Spraying methods? Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.
Chris Carl
Cotton balls streached out and painted grey. Add a ciggarett celophane wrapper cut into small long triangles and paint some orange, some transparent red, and a few transparent yellow. A hint of transparent blue here and there along the tips will help the effect. You will want to practice a bit to get it right but when it works its beautiful. If all else fails do what I do..... set it on fire and quickly take pictures!
Dont worry about the thumbprint, paint it Rust , and call it "Battle Damage"
OOPS! I forgot.....The grey paint should be thinned down quite a bit so the cotton absorbs it. Use a few different shades on different strands. place the cotton into a container of your mixture. dont let it set too long or it sucks up too much paint and gets gooiey
Hi,
When I did a Rob. E. Lee for a customer I used coat hanger wire to support the streached cotton balls. After I posistioned them I sprayed them with hairspray to stiffen, then starting with red/orange a sprayed the centers with an airbrush, then lightly overcoated with various shades of grey and black towards the aft section of the 'plume'. Made for a nice display.
littletimmy If all else fails do what I do..... set it on fire and quickly take pictures!
If all else fails do what I do..... set it on fire and quickly take pictures!
littletimmy! stop it, your just causing trouble .....
.....Besides you took my answer
Steve
Building the perfect model---just not quite yet
You could also try the Flickering fire mini scene. Look in the Walthers model railroad cataloge in the electronics section. Dont know what scale your "Fire " will be but this unit is small and would probably work down to 1\144 scale.
I am using railroad lights to simulate fire and ordnance. I think cotton will work best. Thanks guys.
What I have used in the past is cotton . I work it with a fine wire PET brush carefully combing it to get the look I want .Then , spray with hairspray LIGHTLY ! Let dry and touch up one more time lightly with that brush .Now ,paint with acrylics only , sprayed with a squirt bottle from a distance .Make sure the bottle squirts very fine ! That works for me . Tanker-builder .
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