Looking good mate, you coming to play at RR this weekend ?
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Looks a nice clean job !
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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. |
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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: |
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yep, lower psi, thinner paint. Practice! cheers Ju |
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. |
nice to see you posting again bud!
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S'funny, the design on your touring car is giving me deja vu... :thumbsup:
Keep at it bud, looking good... |
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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. |
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) |
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: |
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! |
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. |
Love the blue paint.
Awesome work . |
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. |
looking good Steve ! where'd you get the montech shell from though ?!? :p
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CPD racing of course! Who else ;) |
Nice one Steve, defo getting there bud!
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