tonyc

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I am just finishing a giant scale fun fly airplane and would like to do a Wet Paint Drops look. I know I have seen this here on RCU, I think it was on a giant scale Edge. Its looks like the front wing hit some paint and large drops flow backwards.

Thanks

tonyc

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Is this what you are looking for??

DBCherry

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Certainly looks like airbrushing to me.
Dennis-

tonyc

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Thanks Giant Scale. Thats what I was looking for.
I am going to try and do a simple version of this using Ultracote. What I really needed to see was the size of the drops and the lighter color reflection off the drops that make it look 3 demonsional.



tonyc

Giant Scale

I don't think this would be that difficult to paint. I would make up some test pieces before I actually painted the model. I'd probably cover the entire wing in yellow ultracote. Then cut a frisket(paint mask) in the shape of the drops. Then lay this on the wing, sand the ultracote with 400-600 grit paper and shoot on the blue paint. It looks like the black and white lines are shot freehand, I'd still leave the frisket attached to the yellow while I painted the black and yellow on. Then I'd remove the frisket and give the surface a couple of coats of clear. From what I've been told a flex additive is added to the paint so it won't chip, similar to additive that is added to auto bumper paint. If I ever get my 50% CAP done I plan on doing a painted racing flag scheme but now that I look at it I also like the paint drops. Geez...more paint schemes to consider

tonyc

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Your right about the painting, that would be the way to go. Except for one thing, I am a lousy painter. Oh I could shoot one color and it would be fine, but as soon as I try to get a good second color on top of the first-------well -----it gets sloppy.

I saw a couple of post on the tips section, one was the flag and the other was flowing checker board. This was all done with covering and it looked good to me. This was done on a profile plane by Termagator.

I was thinking of doing the wet paint look in red Ultrakote on top of an orange wing. Then I would accent the red to give it a demonsional look. I think the accent color would work out with a spray paint. I would use black to shade in the outside edges, and perhaps a light grey or yellow to accent the inner part.

Hope it works out, I have little creative tallent but if I see one I can do one.

tonyc

Daddyo57

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Here is my Uproar-40, my son was kind enough to make templates for me and all I had to do was cut around it with an X acto. it is all monokote. I admit I got lazy and didnt put it the highlights, the plane looked pretty cool and the highlights look tedious.

DBCherry

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Tony,
If you used a translucent colored Monokote for the highlights it might work too (and save you from painting).
Dennis-

tonyc

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I did a test last night.

Took a hunk of red Ultrakote and cut out the “drops pattern�

And guess what? Not only was it a piece of cake to cut out, after all how do you make a bad looking drop, BUT you get two patterns with one cut. The inside of the cut pattern looks just as good as the main pattern. I like that, one cut and you get two pieces.

Then I took a brush and some Testors paint and did some shading. Again, it was easy. No standards for shading. Just brush it in, it all looks like it belongs.

I think this is going to be an easy job.

tonyc

Andy Rigby

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This is a pic of my old 1/3 extra 330. Done in the roland matt 3W scheme. Note NO paint was used. All covering

tonyc

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Andy;
Your's looks great. Could you post a close up picture of some of your "drops"?

I just finished mine and I used a little spray paint on top of the covering.

It looks like you got the same look with just the covering. Did you have any problem when you went 3 or 4 layers deep on the covering?

tonyc

tonyc

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This is the end result of my effort.
This is my own design, "Yak", 80 inch span, powered by a Moki 2.10. All up weight is 12 1/2 Lbs. Yea! the power is ridiculous

Thanks to all that replied.

tonyc