writes:After finishing the lights, I painted the engine. The cone is painted with a dark metallic color (iron or gunmetal), mottled with a rusty color (copper or orange), and then highlighted with silver.
Next I painted some panel lines on the engine - again, I followed sculpted mold lines, and added my own lines however I saw fit.
After lining the cone, I painted the interior white.
Before the white inside the cone was dry, I painted a thick strip of bright orange around the outside edge. With both colors still wet, I cleaned my brush, got it a little bit wet, and began to pull the orange into the white to give a blended look.
Next, I allowed the orange and white to dry before painting a line of thinned yellow over the outer edge of the transition I had just created.
Using the same process as before, I wetted my brush and pulled the yellow paint over the white.
All of this work on the interior of the engine may sound time consuming, but it really isn't. From start to finish, it took me about 10 minutes to paint the interior of the engine.
That's it! With the exception of logos and perhaps some numbering, the ship is done! All that's left is to get some nice shots of the ship, and maybe paste it onto a picture from the Hubble telescope (I use Hubble shots because they are public domain - we all own them because we all pay for them!).
You can see finished pictures on the next page...