RE: [SG/FMA/??] New Pictures Online - LASERLIGHT's "huh?" question...

Hiya folks,

I passed on the compliments that several of you made regarding Albert
Cho's
model photos on stargrunt.ca, and the question about "how he did that"
re
the faceplates of his figures.

Laserlight moaned...
>Depressingly nice.  I can't figure out, are the NI faceplates actually
clear?	>How did he do that?

Albert responded:

"Wow, thanks for forwarding the nice comments!	They're like food for
the
artist : )

The NI face plates were first painted silver and then coated with Tamiya
Clear Acrylic (I mixed clear blue and clear yellow, but I'm sure Tamiya
has
a clear green).  The dark green settles into the recesses and the silver
shines through just enough near the middle.  The effect looks a bit
better
on the actual models IMHO.  For the NAC Power Armor I painted the face
plates with gold and then covered them with Tamiya clear shadow. These
clear
paints are great for gemstones as well.  A warning though:  these paints
are
relatively thick and sticky.  I wouldn't recommend using your nicer
brushes."

Hope that gives you some food for thought.

The pics were at:

<http://www.stargrunt.ca/gallery_modeling/sg2_gal_fsepa/sg2_gal_albertc_
main.
htm>

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Adrian Johnson
adrian@stargrunt.ca
http://www.stargrunt.ca