"Painting cockpit glass" Topic
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| Ray in Calgary | 08 Dec 2007 7:01 p.m. PST |
Miscmini, I have been following your superb painting efforts with a great deal of interest and more than a little envy. How do you paint your cockpit glazing. Ray |
miscmini  | 08 Dec 2007 8:11 p.m. PST |
Ray, thanks very much for the compliment. I paint the canopies before I paint the rest of the model. I either paint the canopy with shades of blue or shades of gray. I decide if I'm going to paint the canopy by shading from corner to corner or from top to bottom.
- cover the canopy w/the darker color.
- mix a slightly lighter shade and paint one half of the canopy (diagonal or horizontal whichever you prefer).
- mix an even lighter shade and cover one half of the area that was just painted.
- repeat as desired…you can shade/highlight more or less depending on your preferences. If I want a very subtle change I'll cover 75% of each canopy pane instead of half.
- once that's done I'll add a few small white lines or sometimes a bit of yellow (sun's relfection picture ).
- I paint the rest of the model and then I apply a wash. Kevin |
| Ray in Calgary | 09 Dec 2007 2:39 p.m. PST |
Kevin, Thanks for the quick response. That Sturmovik is absolutely gorgeous. Now I'm going to have my hands full in striping down some pre-paints and try and emulate what you have done. Probably not nearly half as good, but if I come even close then I'll be a happy camper. Ray |
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