Project: Motorized Madness!

[IndyRacer27]

Hey I just noticed that I now have 6 Light green bars.

You've earned it, I remember seeing your first post about your planned turbine project, and watching as you built it. Hoping it would get featured, I was truly impressed. When you started this, I was eager to see how it would turn out, and you've surpassed my hopes. I'm loving it.

[Boddaker]

Hey man, had some questions about airbrushing. Which one do you have? Do you use friskets for masking, or do you mostly go freehanded? Also what kind of paints are you using?

[rendermandan]

Hey man, had some questions about airbrushing. Which one do you have? Do you use friskets for masking, or do you mostly go freehanded? Also what kind of paints are you using?

I have a paasche air brush. http://www.paascheairbrush.com/doubl...FQRvHgodWBC5yg
I"m not sure the exact model. something close to the 2000VL hobby kit.

I'm not sure what friskets are. I mostly use blue painters tape, and sometimes just go freehand for masking.

I'm using acrylic paints I bought from my local Hobby Town. I chose acrylic because it cleans up with water and thins easily.

[Boddaker]

I have a paasche air brush. http://www.paascheairbrush.com/doubl...FQRvHgodWBC5yg
I"m not sure the exact model. something close to the 2000VL hobby kit.

I'm not sure what friskets are. I mostly use blue painters tape, and sometimes just go freehand for masking.

I'm using acrylic paints I bought from my local Hobby Town. I chose acrylic because it cleans up with water and thins easily.

Ah, cool. I have an old Badger airbrush that I have never used, and I need to learn the basics before I tackle the BSG. I was just curious what your setup was, since you are doing similar work.

[SgtM]

This mod has been featured on the front page!

[Crimson Sky]

Getting the paint just right is a very tough technique to master. Paint the whole thing black again and start to build up your color in subtle layers. For Doom 3, it was a combination of airbrush for base colors, then drybrushing, colored washes, pastels, powders and a combo of flat/gloss paints to bring depth and realism. Get some very good sable brushes too.

Jon saw Doom 3 close up and can vouch for the subtle yet effective paint job that was given to it. Airbrushing for models is only a rough process, the rest takes many (many many) hours of brush painting. I've been practicing for 30 years to become a master model maker, so just keep at it!

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[rendermandan]

Wow, thanks Crimson! I've really got a lot of learning to do to get this right. I'm actually just playing around with different methods of painting without any real guide as to what I'm doing. I will check into those dry powders. And thanks for putting me on the front page!!!! Sorry I haven't gotten any progress on this. My Job right now is taking all my free time. I've been working everyday for the past 3 weeks straight except today. Then I'm back at it for another week and a half. but after that, I should get back to this.

By the way, Merry Christmas to everyone!

[The boy 4rm oz]

OMG, I never knew there was so much you could do with an air brush. I may have to invest in one .

[|NQ|Squelsh]

Congrats for the frontpage and good luck with weathering. I wish I can paint my Orb as nice as your "playing around" painting +Rep for the result and for still trying to improve it!

[rendermandan]

Well, Its been a while since I've made an update. I apologize, I've been swamped with a project at work, My last day off other than Christmas day was December 1st. LOL.

Anyway, here's the progress that I manged to get done in the little free time I had.

I started to paint the base unit. First I taped off some shapes on the top.

then i just did the same thing only in different colors.

Then I started the detail painting of all the parts.

Here a couple shots with the flash on. The flash really makes it look like crap. It looks so much better in person.

Here are some shots with the flash off. this is alot closer to what it really looks like. but they are kind of dark.

you can also notice I gave the entire inside a coat of black paint.
I gave everything so far a coat of semi-gloss clear coat to protect it too.

Then I installed the power switch. You can also see that I removed the liquid mask from the leds in the motorized trays.

Next after clear coating. I went to remove the liquid mask that I applied so long ago. Here is a shot before I remove it. You can see the "channels" where it is located between the panels.

Here is a shot with the back up to light. It still has the blue painters tape on the back side to protect the back.

and here is the back side with the tape removed. You can clearly see where the "light" channels are around the panels.

I got some spray frosting to coat the back of the panel.

Here is a shot after 1 coat of frosting. It deffinetly dulled it out and it has that frosted look, but I want it to be more, so I will add a few more coats.

I noticed that the more it dried, the more it frosted. the picture was taken while it was still wet.

thats all I got done up untill last night. I added a few more coats to the frosting, so I will have to see how it turned out.

Untill next time, Peace!