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jo90 11-03-2011 01:40 PM

Looking good mate, you coming to play at RR this weekend ?

cutting edge 12-03-2011 08:50 AM

Updated

eyeayen 12-03-2011 09:43 AM

Looks a nice clean job !

Steveonamission 25-01-2012 06:38 PM

10 months or so later my short attention span has brought me back to this...

I need help with freehand shading, everytime I go to do it and get close up, it splashes everywhere... lower PSI? So I end up just filling the area over.

Don't ya just love a bit of no natural light photography.

julianb 25-01-2012 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Steveonamission (Post 473761)
Cheers, glad it's acceptable, will get it off to you in the morning, fingers crossed it'll get there saturday! Did it as fast as I could, it's hard when you only have two evenings lol. Yeah I left the wing clear, might look good black though.


Hi Steve,

fancied a go yourself then! Not quite as easy as it looks... Good job though mate. My first attempts would never see the light of day.... :bored:

julianb 25-01-2012 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Steveonamission (Post 612093)
10 months or so later my short attention span has brought me back to this...

I need help with freehand shading, everytime I go to do it and get close up, it splashes everywhere... lower PSI? So I end up just filling the area over.

Don't ya just love a bit of no natural light photography.

Hi Steve,

yep, lower psi, thinner paint. Practice!

cheers

Ju

Steveonamission 25-01-2012 06:55 PM

Yeah it's blooming hard, makes me feel bad for hasserling either you or Jon@ RCS to get my touring car shell done!

I have no problem with scalpel lines it's just the paint bit :woot:

Ok thanks, I'll give it a go tomorrow evening.

jonmiller 25-01-2012 08:54 PM

nice to see you posting again bud!

julianb 25-01-2012 10:47 PM

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S'funny, the design on your touring car is giving me deja vu... :thumbsup:

Keep at it bud, looking good...

eyeayen 26-01-2012 02:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Steveonamission (Post 612093)
I need help with freehand shading, everytime I go to do it and get close up, it splashes everywhere... lower PSI? So I end up just filling the area over.

Practice is really the key for this. You need to learn airbrush control, try it on the inside of a drinks bottle ( they're free and it doesn't matter if you mess them up ). Or try on some thick white paper / thin card. You need to practice, without watching how you're working it's difficult to offer advice.

If the shading is going every where I'd make sure you're not working above 40psi. Get the paint quite thin, the airbrush sort of does some of it for you. So don't paint straight onto the area you're trying to shade, start on the mask and flick out or around the mask depending on the shape you're trying to do. Because the airbrush gives a natural soft edge anyway it creates the shadow effect for you.

Also if you spray toward the mask the shape will be more defined, if you spray away from the mask the shape will be looser.

Practice more, see how you get on, come back ask questions.

Steveonamission 26-01-2012 12:34 PM

Thanks Jon!- Received your order yesturday too, rapid!

Julian- I remember trashing that on LAP 2 at Cotswolds in Modified as I flipped it down the slope they have there! I nearly cried.

Hello Ian - I don't think my airbrush control is too bad, I was trying it on acetone alot, and it was fine. Then I switched to a shell I was doing and it looked like someone just rained on my shell, almost as if the paint was like water... as I got close up to do a thin support line around a shape, maybe 60psi wasn't the way to go *laughs at himself*

Anyway thanks for your advice is great to have the pro guys comment on a novice thread.

I took some better pictures of the shell I created last night. All it needed I think was some freehand shading to break the front up and it would of looked much better. (Patio moss not included in the sale of this shell)

eyeayen 26-01-2012 11:43 PM

As a bit of an after thought, do you have a moisture filter on your compressor ? If a bead of water made it's way through it would cause that. I still do things like that every so often fella, it's the trouble airbrushing at higher pressures with a non absorbant surface that you can't correct mistakes on.

Shell looks good though, you should be pleased with that :thumbsup:

That patio and and moss pit board effect looks photo real what technique did you use to get them so good ? :lol:

Steveonamission 28-01-2012 12:27 PM

Yep, have a moisture filter attached, though I screwed it on at the airbrush end? Not sure that matters.

The technique is years of neglect - Can't take credit for the moss effect i'm afraid, it's a design I copied from a neighbour.

Anyway, came up with this nightmare, but I kind of like it. Reason I say nightmare was I brushed the liquid mask all the same direction which I've never done before and it became a right pain in the bum to cross paths when cutting out, and when pealing off too! I'll make sure I never do that again!

Lowering the psi to around 30 helped some what, but only with opaques, shading with some transparents didn't like it... I'm guessing opaques are easier because there full bodied colours? Onto the next anyway!

eyeayen 29-01-2012 02:26 PM

Unfortunately I think the body and your designs are getting lost with the reflections but I really like that ! Great colours, nice simple design, looks ace ! :thumbsup:

Stop painting bodies for an hour or so, play about thinning the paint, see if you can write your name with it or sign your signature, not stupidly small but quite fine. At some point you'll get to that sweet spot where it's flowing through the airbrush nicely and giving you enough colour but not doing the nasty spidery thing. That's where you need it, if you over thin it come back with some more colour to thicken it up again. It's a real art to getting it right, I don't both so much with these, splodge some paint in the cup, splodge some thinners in, mix it up a bit with my brush and spray. If I'm doing artwork though I mix each colour in a palette so I know it's exactly how I want it to spray.

bobbyman 29-01-2012 05:45 PM

Love the blue paint.
Awesome work .

Steveonamission 31-01-2012 12:07 PM

Thanks guys... I think I made it look like a duck though.:woot:

Finished this one... (It is available for sale, pm me or I'll put it in the for sale section later)

Wasn't too happy with it, but it's all good practice, thanks for looking.

chris_dono 31-01-2012 12:17 PM

looking good Steve ! where'd you get the montech shell from though ?!? :p

Steveonamission 31-01-2012 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by chris_dono (Post 614676)
looking good Steve ! where'd you get the montech shell from though ?!? :p

Akula racing distribute them, contact them:woot:

CPD racing of course! Who else ;)

julianb 31-01-2012 09:48 PM

Nice one Steve, defo getting there bud!

Mike Parker 31-01-2012 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Steveonamission (Post 614671)
Thanks guys... I think I made it look like a duck though.:woot:

Finished this one... (It is available for sale, pm me or I'll put it in the for sale section later)

Wasn't too happy with it, but it's all good practice, thanks for looking.

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/o...Picture017.jpg

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/o...Picture018.jpg

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/o...Picture025.jpg

I really like the design & choice of colours steve :) nothing beats a bit of practice mate, keep it going fella :thumbsup:


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