- Member since
April 2003
- From: NSW, Australia
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Posted by pingtang
on Thursday, April 21, 2005 6:15 AM
Thanks lads. I appreciate the comments.
| QUOTE: Excellent work Pingy paint job looks great but shouldn't you have left the canopy clear instead of blue |
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Ah bugger it.....I knew I forgot to do something. Has anyone got a spare canopy? I forgot to mask mine....... ![Tongue [:P]](/FSM/CS/emoticons/icon_smile_tongue.gif)
| QUOTE: looks good! even more proof that it is a winning idea!!! Now I just need to find the sheet of paper where Saltydog laid out how he did it haha. |
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Here ya go. I copied it too:
QUOTE: [/i]originally posted by saltydog[/i]
the weathering was a combo of airbrushing and pastel chalks. to achieve the splotchy paint job (which the pics really don't show up as well as in person), i mixed the base color, and then from the base color i mixed a shade or 2 lighter, and a shade or 2 darker mixture. first, i applied the darkest color to the entire top surface, and from the article i read in FSM mag last year, i stole the "salt" chipping idea, and i twisted it into my own evil plan!! i loaded up some tap water in my airbrush and sprayed my model, then i covered my entire model with table salt, i grouped it into big chunks, little chunks, down to the smallest grain with a small paint brush. when this dried, i sprayed the base color and removed the salt with a fresh water wash down. when this dried, i covered the model in water and salt once again, let it dry, and then spayed the lightes mixture, paying close attention to the center of panels and the upper most surfaces of the plane where the sun is beating down the longest and most. when this was dried, i didn't remove the salt yet, i loaded the darkest color back in the airbrush and ever so subltly followed along a few of the panel lines to darken them just a hair. then, removed the salt |
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And thanks for the info too. I thought that was how it should go, but I just wanted to make sure as there's nothing in the acc min instructions that said what colour it should be (or more likely, I didn't read them properly).
-Daniel
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