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Originally Posted by Bunkerbarge Even if things in real life are a full matt or gloss it rarely looks right to paint it as such on a model. A lot of finishes are in between the two so for those simply mix a tin of matt with a tin of gloss in the proportions you require for the finish you want.
When you are experimenting measure specific amounts into a tin, paint a surface and see how it looks when it dries.
I painted my coaster hull with a mixture of matt and gloss paints and varied the mix slightly as I went along. I will also be going over it again with differring ratios to produce differrent textures which is very typical of an old ships hull with many coats of paint applied over the years.
As for the airbrush, I know Nigel will cringe when I tell you that I have never really got into them either. I just can't be bothered with all the faffing around cleaning the dam thing. Not to mention the mess caused by the overspray and dust. I do use it every now and then and I know I am missing out on a whole world of techniques but I am managing to only use it very occassionally at the moment. |
After reading this post, I checked our your gallery. I have looked at it before, but paid a lot more attention this time. I have officially decided to cut myself a break. Hehe. I have been expecting too much being this early getting back into modeling. One of my other projects is the USS Lionfish. I have just realized my first mistake and that was in putting the tower together early. It is a very basic model from looking at the instructions and the detail isn't anything superb. I would have loved to have given the tower some detail. All the pictures that I have found of the Lionfish have been very non-detailled. How much of what you do is imagination and how much is dead nuts on?