unorthodoxdesig
Well-Known Member
Hey All!
I'm doing a project involving 4x scale models of new types of insect. I need to recreate Moth and Insect Wings, as well as Shiny Beetle Carapace effects..
So far for the moth's wings I'm looking at something like this...
Does that look like it's flat or is it faceted where the vein lines are painted?
I was thinking stretching thin weave (silk?) fabric over a frame, putting epoxy into the fabric.. and maybe dusting with something to create the powdery texture on the wings then airbrush? Or maybe paper instead of silk.. Would probably need to press while drying with a clam shell mold to get ant of the faceted effects.. Also for powdery effects on the wings there's the granular flock.. the stuff that's a finer size than the standard static flock?
Next.. insect Wings.. I wanted to vacuform them to get the texture but may not have access to one.. perhaps a 1 sided mold with a thin layer of clear resin poured over it/ for smaller wings I just scratched vein lines into think plastic but for the larger scale this wouldn't look good.
Finally.. the shiny beetle carapaces you see in some scarab and predatory-type beetles and wasps...
Metallic Parasitoid Wasp - Cuckoo Wasp | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
So would the best way to do that be silver leaf and tinted clear coat with maybe a final coat of pearlescence effects paint on top of that?- then you get the metallic, the colour and gloss, and the rainbow hue-changing effect..
Is there ab easier way? Been hard to find that kind of metallic sheen in metallic leafing.
Thanks for the help everyone!
I'm doing a project involving 4x scale models of new types of insect. I need to recreate Moth and Insect Wings, as well as Shiny Beetle Carapace effects..
So far for the moth's wings I'm looking at something like this...
Does that look like it's flat or is it faceted where the vein lines are painted?
I was thinking stretching thin weave (silk?) fabric over a frame, putting epoxy into the fabric.. and maybe dusting with something to create the powdery texture on the wings then airbrush? Or maybe paper instead of silk.. Would probably need to press while drying with a clam shell mold to get ant of the faceted effects.. Also for powdery effects on the wings there's the granular flock.. the stuff that's a finer size than the standard static flock?
Next.. insect Wings.. I wanted to vacuform them to get the texture but may not have access to one.. perhaps a 1 sided mold with a thin layer of clear resin poured over it/ for smaller wings I just scratched vein lines into think plastic but for the larger scale this wouldn't look good.
Finally.. the shiny beetle carapaces you see in some scarab and predatory-type beetles and wasps...
Metallic Parasitoid Wasp - Cuckoo Wasp | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
So would the best way to do that be silver leaf and tinted clear coat with maybe a final coat of pearlescence effects paint on top of that?- then you get the metallic, the colour and gloss, and the rainbow hue-changing effect..
Is there ab easier way? Been hard to find that kind of metallic sheen in metallic leafing.
Thanks for the help everyone!
