Chris Fields
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Np, hope it works out. Let us know how it goes.
It's hard to tell what the lighter blue/silver color is on the film shield. Sometimes it looks light blue, other it looks more silver. I think cousin dave's was too light bluish, but it did look good. I haven't done one of those yet myself, but from prior test, some of the lighter colored transparent blues would work, maybe mix them with a little bit of transparent smoke color. The tamiya transparent blue is really light blue, might work well.
You might be looking at the wrong ones. You want to make sure the paint is translucent. I know tamiya has polycarbonate specific sprays, but they have others as well. Though, if that Sky blue anodized aluminum one is translucent, and works on metal, then that looks perfect.
Isn't the original one that the prop masters built made of interlocking rings and not one piece of aluminum? That explains why the back grooves apparently don't line up with the front ones. I remember reading this somewhere but I can't remember where...
If that's the case that would make painting way easier if each colour was it's own piece.