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Help Painting Photoetch

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cml
  • Member since
    March 2007
  • From: Brisbane, Australia
Help Painting Photoetch
Posted by cml on Friday, October 17, 2008 7:22 PM

G'day all,

I'm in the process of painting the cockpit of a 1/72 Hasegawa F-14.  It comes with a fret of photoetch for the instrument panels in the cockpit.

I'm a bit unsure how to paint those potoetched panels.  I've sprayed them flat black, then i thought i'd dry brush white to pick out the dials etc on them.  Unfortunately, my dry brushing skills must be lacking - i can't seem to get the white to adhere to the raised dials, and instead, have smudged the whole panel with white.

Is it possible to paint them this way?  is there another alternative to painting this panels so the dials stand out?  Or, are they too thin to do this to?

Any tips/help would be greatly appreciated.

cml

Chris

  • Member since
    April 2003
  • From: Hayward, CA
Posted by MikeV on Saturday, October 18, 2008 1:27 PM

What I do is paint the panel with a flat color as you did as a gloss color will not allow you to do very well with drybrushing, etc.

Then I take a good quality sharpened white or silver colored pencil such as Prismacolor and pick out the details with it.

If you over do it you can wipe it clean and start over. 

 

 

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  • Member since
    September 2007
  • From: Crystal Lake, IL
Posted by firesmacker on Saturday, October 18, 2008 7:47 PM

I sometimes use a toothpick with a small amount of paint to pick out the little details. I am the world's worst dry-brusher when it comes to tiny 'pit details. So this usually works better for me.

Regards,

Jeff

cml
  • Member since
    March 2007
  • From: Brisbane, Australia
Posted by cml on Monday, October 20, 2008 10:42 PM

Thank Mike and Jeff - both are good ideas.

I'll give it a try and see how i go.  It all seems so obvious after somebody tells you...

Thanks a lot.

cml

Chris

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