Building The Death Star - PRODUCTION
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I agree and said before, a rattle can is the way to go with the spatter effect, a toothbrush wont get the effect your after Rob!
I used a rattle can on the Y wing and X wings builds, and it really does work well, i played with distances of 12" to 24" roughly, and the gradient change was superb, the speckles just fall on the model pretty much dry, leaving the finest grain feel, which IMO, is the way it should look, a toothbrush, would be very rough id say!
Youll have to stand on a chair to drop it on the upper dome i guess, so mind those health and safety laws :lol
lee
I used a rattle can on the Y wing and X wings builds, and it really does work well, i played with distances of 12" to 24" roughly, and the gradient change was superb, the speckles just fall on the model pretty much dry, leaving the finest grain feel, which IMO, is the way it should look, a toothbrush, would be very rough id say!
Youll have to stand on a chair to drop it on the upper dome i guess, so mind those health and safety laws :lol
lee
PHArchivist
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The rattle-can approach would also give me greater control over the overall color tone of the cityscape, by applying a solid base coat of the deisred color first, then speckling over it.
If you look carefully at the Death Star, different sections of cityscapes have different base color tones.
If you look carefully at the Death Star, different sections of cityscapes have different base color tones.
So then it's a matter of cost. Do you want to spend a few hundred dollars on an airbrush, air compressor and nozzles or $50 on ten cans of spray paint. Hmmmm. You make the call.
Brad
PHArchivist
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Problem with the airbrush is that I don't want to reset three or four times with the varying colors.
Four of these and a little paint.
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=92126
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=92126
Newbie Doobie
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I have one these guns. They're junk! Not worth the metal they're made from!:unsure I stripped the violet paint off it. It's supposed to be anodized,but it's just cheap enamel paint. Oh,yeah...the quality of finish is what is expected of a cheap automotive spray gun. I can adjusted to whatever spray pattern you want,but it's hard to keep it from dripping all over your work if you don't hold it level to the top on the paint cup!
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PHArchivist
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OK tell me how this happens? This is a close up of the long, characteristic scar to the right of the dish that is now on the model.
Look at the line, or seam, that runs right through the top of the blemish...
Look at the line, or seam, that runs right through the top of the blemish...
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nwjedidave
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the blemish looks like a smudge from someone or something rubbing up against it. The line could be a tape line?
As far as the splatter -- being an aerospace painter and having experience with "texture" paint there is a variety of methods that have already been discussed in which all will work.
If it were my build I would make the simple choice to try and duplicate the finish as they did 30 years ago, which would be by my guess - spray (rattle) cans.
This is an amazing thread. Well done.
As far as the splatter -- being an aerospace painter and having experience with "texture" paint there is a variety of methods that have already been discussed in which all will work.
If it were my build I would make the simple choice to try and duplicate the finish as they did 30 years ago, which would be by my guess - spray (rattle) cans.
This is an amazing thread. Well done.
PHArchivist
Master Member
Here's another blown-up pic from the same shot; same line on the model. See right in the middle of the picture you can clearly see a seam of some sort.
I just cannot help but to wonder if there was something more than just paint laid on the model.
I just cannot help but to wonder if there was something more than just paint laid on the model.
PHArchivist
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Yeah... This is the shot that really maks me wonder. In the image itself, its irrefutable that there is some graphic relief there. But the question remains, was this image "doctored" or not.
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