CorSecEng | 18 Nov 2014 11:31 a.m. PST |
I'm working on some new 10mm/6mm city buildings and need some help with the painting. I've done some of this before but it was a super pain in the butt. Last time I painted them silver and then used a transparent green to get a nice effect. However, that was a pain as it required several dozen coats of watered down transparent green. I ended up cutting it with alcohol to thin it (water made it into a paste) and it was so runny that I ended up painting it in small bits over and over. It wasn't transparent enough without the thinning. Anyone have any ideas? This is the old one.
and the one I'm working on now.
I have a few more in the works and would like to get these on the market but I'm having touble with people not realizing the entire structure is glass. They keep asking for more windows and I need to illustrate that with the paint job. |
boy wundyr x | 18 Nov 2014 11:37 a.m. PST |
What about a metallic black? I've been leaning to that for a 6mm hotel I have to paint some year. |
Chris Palmer | 18 Nov 2014 11:40 a.m. PST |
How about strips of green cellophane glued over the silver? |
CorSecEng | 18 Nov 2014 11:50 a.m. PST |
I dont want to add anything to the model. It's a painted example and modifying it will give the false impression that it comes with cellophane. |
HistoryPhD | 18 Nov 2014 12:50 p.m. PST |
Here are my thoughts on painting windows: link |
monash1916 | 18 Nov 2014 12:54 p.m. PST |
You mean the entire building is glass?? Well if it was only partial glass, I would do the glass very dark blue (midnight blue or something), but I guess dark green or black would also do. But afterwards I would give the glass items a gloss varnish and the none glass items a matt varnish. It worked for me with small objects, but I do have no idea how it will look with your big glass building. |
CorSecEng | 18 Nov 2014 3:17 p.m. PST |
There are structural elements but most of it is glass. I just sprayed it silver. I figure I'll work up from there. |
javelin98 | 18 Nov 2014 3:24 p.m. PST |
I'm a fan of Tamiya's "Cockpit Glass" green acrylic for military vehicles and aircraft, but for buildings, I'd have to agree with HistoryPhD -- black with a silvery wash might be the best way to go. Having seen how good black can look on small-scale minis at Brigade's site, I think it can be used equally as well with your office tower.
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dragon6 | 18 Nov 2014 4:07 p.m. PST |
Do you have an airbrush? If so thin your green and put on several light coats. If you don't… think about getting one for large area coverage in things like this. I'd gloss it after it dries Nice SF building |
tkdguy | 18 Nov 2014 4:25 p.m. PST |
Thanks for posting your link, HistoryPhD. I find it really useful. |
CorSecEng | 18 Nov 2014 6:48 p.m. PST |
I do have an airbrush but that transparent green was a pain last time so not sure I still have it. It might have gone bad. If I do then I'll try to shoot it through the air brush. If I can't find it then I might just do another green thinned down a lot. It's silver now so I'm just adding a green tint then I can paint the frame lines and be good to go. |
HistoryPhD | 18 Nov 2014 7:02 p.m. PST |
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Darkest Star Games | 19 Nov 2014 8:09 a.m. PST |
Can you make the curtainwall out of translucent plastic instead of the white stuff? that way the back can be painted whatever color, and the mullions can be painted on the outside to get a definite delineation of layering. That's how I do architectural models. |
Darkest Star Games | 19 Nov 2014 8:10 a.m. PST |
BTW, love that shape! Need more sci-fi stuff like this in 15mm! |
Elenderil | 20 Nov 2014 2:27 p.m. PST |
What about a thinned ink wash over a silver base? |