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  1. Phantastic job, Aaron. The 50/50 approach makes it even more interesting. Wonderful!
  2. Ursinus Float Plane with retractable floats. I think a re-release of a navy version (with floats) of something they have already always is a good idea. Low cost, lots of fun.
  3. Yeah. An example of how to turn an ugly and rather unpopular subject into something so beautiful. All that started with a few glasses of beer in a bavarian countryside restaurant. What a great success story. Pure excellence! Thanks for everything, Jim. Wonderful.....just wonderful....
  4. That gonna be the first unpainted I-16 I ever see. Excellent! Good luck! I´ll defo gonna tune in here again shortly.
  5. Man, man, man...thats looking so dope, man.... THAT is what should be done with it, beating the crap outta this decals! No, seriously. That is exactly what the stuff is supposed to deliver. I´m really happy to see you doin´ so well with it. Thats what my secret wishes were, seeing others creating such a highly professional result. It looks phantastic, especially together with the nice interiour detail. You know, when a SBS picture sequence has reached that level, you know nothing can go wrong anymore. It only can get better and better. The more detail comes in now, the more beautiful it gonna be. I like the double-layer technique. Thats really effective and brand new to me. Great, great job my friend. Great job indeed!
  6. Very cool, mate! Glad to see you diggin´ it. Let me ask you something. If you seal all this with a layer of clear, in order to make the grain pop and to do a pin wash with dark brown and brown, that wouldn´t be for your liking, right? Or is that just too much anticipating? Stupid question maybe...sry mate. Its really good. It is.
  7. You know what bro? Indeed I like the "sky is the limit" kinda thinking when it comes to 3d printing. But...is there any opportunity to get rid of the coarse surfaces? Its all lovely, but not really crisp, compared to a plastic injection. But, I gotta confess, I never saw one of those pieces in reality, so my judgement may not be profound.
  8. Dude, you know how to kick the shit out of some styrene. Gotta fanclub? Wanna join. Excellent!
  9. During the development I made a small testbed. I took an little ol´piece of something plastic, painted the various basecoats on that thing and laid a decal over it. That was quite telling.
  10. That looks very good indeed. It will look even cooler once sealed with clear. The printed grain will pop out very clear then. In case its too glossy for the artist´s taste, it can be corrected with a mist of some flat clear. About the colors: Actually I do it the same way as you do using the same tones. The only difference is that you have "balanced" the preshading with flesh, while I do that with Radome. That modelmaster Radome looks quite on spot. Its quite bright compared to Gunze´s, which is a good thing in our case. Well, I go like this: - basecoat flesh over all - preshading black - 1st balancing with flesh again - 2nd balancing with radome (I start at the panel centers) - 3rd balancing with radome plus white (again focus on the panel centers) - final balancing with color number 3, misting, far distance, highly diluted (all my colors are highly diluted all of the time) Once the light settings are done, it should really be the final setting since this setting will telegraph straight through the decals and will be reduced by 5% by the decals only. Somtimes the fine contrast between flesh and radome+white is actually enough in terms of accentuating. So, what one also could do is: - basecoat flesh over all - do no preshading and just brighten up the panel centers with radome+ white On the latter approach the accentuating is just caused by the contrast between flesh and radome+white. Its the fast path but a bit risky since it easily can be too less. The first approach gives you a few more triggers to play with, since one has more contrast and shades that can be altered as desired. The interiour looks really good from here, Jim. Luv it. If you wanna have it brighter, just use radome+white as a finish before the decals come in. Actually one can try off-white as well. Didnt test it though. Rock on buddy! I´ll follow this very closely! :-) Cheers bro!
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