Model Fleet: UPDATE 2/15/08: The Endless Flight Deck (paint job)

UPDATE 2/15/08: The Endless Flight Deck (paint job)

Posted by Matty on February 15, 2008, 22:18:48, in reply to "Matty's Nichimo HIRYU Build In Progress"
Message modified by board administrator February 16, 2008, 15:53:58

For anyone wondering why it's been so long since my last update, I have been occupied taking no less than seven runs at painting a decent wood-plank appearance on the flight deck, using my "Dissolving Wash" method - on two kit flight decks, no less - until finally obtaining this result:

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Which exhibits the following appearance of color and "depth", closeup:

Click on Image to EnlargeAlthough in some ways still not the best I have ever done, it was by far the most demanding - and very likely the best possible for this particular, very light and bright color scheme, applied over so large an area - so I am very happy to have achieved it.

Now anyone not interested in ever painting anything like the above, and/or with low tolerance for long sagas of The Agony of Defeat and The Tenacity to Succeed in the End , can just "jogg on" (as our English friends would say), and not read the details, presented in two "replies" below.

But for the rest of you, see these - one for each kit flight deck - containing, in excruciating detail exactly what-all I tried, failed - and why - and what finally succeeded in producing the above paint job.

Cheers,

-Matty