BKirwan wrote:Very pretty finish on a Natural metal finish. I particulary like the metallic tones on the engine - would you care to share with us how you did that?
kind regards Brian
Well, first prime. Then put an even coat of Alclad pale burnt metal(light gold). You could use chrome for this too.
Next using tamiya clear orange build up an orangy colour base it on wht you can see in pics. Some bits are more orange than others.
Then on the darker parts (like the combustion chambers) a small bit of clear red was used (alclad or tamiya), just to darken things further. Next Alclad Sepia was sprayed lightly over the whole thing, to give some interesting looking tones. Finally on the darkest parts Clear Black (Alclad smoke) was used. This was also used on the tail pipe to dirty it up a bit too.
The exhaust nozle was first done with tamiya buff. Then colours built up without the orange in a similar way as above, though mainly with sepia and smoke. (its hard to see in the pic)
Then the whole thing was given a wash of tamiya buff and white (1:1). When that was dry a light was of black oil.
Hmm.. i think that was it. Its one of these things you do on the fly, looking at pics thinking.. ooh darker here... slight red tones there. But i think thats the jist of it. :)
