IM DOING AN F14 SHANGHAI DRAGON BOMBCAT RIGHT NOW AND IM WONDERING ON HOW TO WEATHER IT AND WHAT COLOR WILL WORK ON IT.IVE FINISHED PAINTING IT USING TAMIYA ENAMELS.ALSO WHAT COLOR WILL WORK BEST WHEN DETAILING PANEL LINES ON GRAY SURFACES.LASLTLY IS IT OK TO USE SIGNPENS WHEN DETAILING PANEL LINES?WHAT AREW THE GUIDELINES TO FOLLOW?THANKS FOR THOSE WHO WILL REPLY…[:D]
Well, PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPSLOCK KEY.
The best color to accent gray is, the same color that best accents ALL colors, Black! A simple, plain black wash does it everytime. And it doesn’t clutter up your space too bad!
Signpens? What’re those?
Hi Jengjeng! I just finished building their 1/144 F-14 (the one with the flight deck and fire truck) I built it with the gear up and on a clear plastic rod. Anywho, I know Navy planes are very well maintained because it they’re not then corrosion can set in. In spite of that, I wanted to depict mine as a rather well used aircraft. I took a fine chiseled brush and EVER SO GENTLY tamped in some reddish-brown pastel chalk. I did it gently because I then 1)blew off the excess, and then 2)took a very soft brush and brushed away whatever was still left on after the blowing. What was aleft was a fine brown tinted panel line. I tried it first (not knowing how it would turn out) on the bottom of the plane where it might be hidden if I really glitched things up. But I was so happy with the result that I did the whole plane that way. Let us know how your plane turns out!
Oh, to also simulate the many paint touch-ups that Navy planes endure I took a piece of paper towel, crumpled up an end, and stippled the plane with a slightly darker shade of the plane’s original color. It looked like a bit of a contrast so I then went back and air brushed an extremely thinned coat of the base color on it to gently blend the two colors. Hope this all helps.
Eric
HEY,
May i suggest bullet holes? I read this on another forum or maybe this one. Take your hobby knife and drill a small hole in it and barely go all the way through. Then you paint the inside of the hole silver or another mettalic color. Last you put a thin black line around the outside of it. Hope this helps.
Randy
One other trick on bullet holes is to be sure to thin out the inside of the plastic so its far closer to scale.Good luck on doing this since I am in the process right now doing it to a Revell Germany 1/144 scale HH-53C converted to a newer MH-53M.
Tally ho
Rosie