Cheers Chaps,
As usual it's a thread to motivate me to finish something.
Matt ,
It's not particularly fast .Just organized.
I stood in the kitchen and painted it. Which stops me from sitting back and day dreaming waiting for the paint to dry.( I suspect thats where a lot of my painting time disappears)
Plus I'm not doing fine detail, and it's a cumbersome lump to try and move around on a desk without knocking sending things flying.
Because its so big its possible to work on different sections at the same time as you've pain drying.
1st paint on was the deck slightly thinned paint .Painted along the length of the decks.Using a on old crappie brush so it scratches/ streaks the paint allowing thinned area's of the paint to show some of the cardboard throught it. Whilst its drying paint all the portholes and dark woodwork black.Then go back to the deck add a little brown to the black paint you've got on the go .Thin it down use it as a shade was around the deck and all walls. Whilst its drying paint the grey 'C' shapes in all the portholes. Then the green for the outside portholes of the cabin.Whilst that's on the go use the green for the walls and the landing pad. Then the base colour for all the white areas .Painting only a 'U' shape around the edges of each panel . Then an 'i' shape in the center(ish) of each panel.(Therse no need for the base colour to cover every square inch .It just wastes paint and time. ) then a squared off figure of eight in a 50/50 mix of base colour and white into the area not painted with base colour. Using a crappie brush and blur the edgess with your finger.(finger painting is the quickest method) .The highlight is adding more white to your remaining 50/50 mix. Two or three vertical line's and a couple of stippling dabs from the same brush load and blur edges with your finger.
Whilst drying paint lower hull red .Then base colour all the dark wood work with chocolate brown. Use a little. Chocolate brown to shade the red wiping off and blending with you finger as you go.Then go back to the woodwork 50/50 mix of chocolate brown & leather brown with a final highlight of leather. Then a chocolate brown/ red mix thinned down and dabbed on and wiped off immediately .Where ever you want rust on the white paint.
Whislt drying highlights on all the portholes with just white.With the white paint that's left use it as a finial highlight and correction on the wall's in the odd spot blending with your fingers as you go.
(The railing canvas is just the base green leather brown and white quick wet blending with a finger.)
Then the black areas are the final areas to get painted as it where I've held the model the most ( so its got finger prints galore
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That pretty much brings it up to this point.
Sounds long winded but if I'd just replied crappie brushed and finger painting some would be shouting B.S.
(The straight lines on the Hull ,and the landing pad. where achived by a combination of raised strips and embossing lines into the cardboard during construction. Save time and effort when your painting)
So that's how I chuck paint at speed on big Pulp builds. Ingnore fancy stuff and stick with a simple pallet and a stylized realism( boardering on an oxymoron I know
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It's the same method I used on the Eather flyer.But that thing fought back at every stage. It wasn't so muchba labour of love but a battle of wills.
Which ties in nicely with the pic. I've still furniture to make for the cabin similar to the rooms on this.
The radio room will recycle the original. Panels from the kits bridge detailing. One half the table( other half is in the chart room) and in the recessed former windows.
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