yuumi2891103
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Fantastic work! I am in awe of your workmanship with sheet metal...and you're culinary artistry. opcorn
Have you thought about masking areas and sandblasting the surface with different sized grit blasting medium? It would leave that metallic look you want to preserve while having different metal textures throughout.
Thank you very much for the comment, LeoL- san ( Laugh Extreme Out Loud ?),
Yes, I did in the early time of this build.
Many years ago, when I made a kit bashing star ship, I tried to paint it like a numerous panel with a different tones. That was very impressive and I thought if I do it on this ship, how it's gonna be. So, I tested with a piece of sheet metal and some masking tapes. I run the fine sand paper to polish up at first and then mask some part and run with a little rough paper all over. The effect was splendid.
So, I will do it on some part I left as bare metal surface.
Unfortunately it does require use of sulfuric acid or lye.
http://www.wikihow.com/Anodize-Aluminum
http://www.mikesenese.com/DOIT/2010/07/anodize-aluminum-at-home-with-everyday-materials/
back in my college days I had done a fair amount of for part of a metalsmithing project I was working on
I've done it with aluminum as well as titanium and niobium.
I wonder if there might be places that would do it for you (obviously for a price).
Then again probably way more expensive than it is worth
I think I have also seen some spray paints etc.. that try to mimic that anodized look
now off to eat something as I seem to get very hungry for some reason whenever I come to this thread:lol
Thank you for the reply, sir.
I will try to check out some car splay or something. That would be good for paint job on metal.
I hope you got a good meal
Here are some progress today.
Not much but please have a look.
I started to build the pipelines.
Nothing any difficult work but it's takes time.
I don't believe, it took whole 8 hours.:facepalm
I will add some more detailing here and there and this part will be finished.
Thanks for watching.
Katsu