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Loren,No pictures means it didn't happen. Share those little jewels will ya?
Here are some of Loren's finished models - his choice of colors is excellent!
BTW, a tip on finishing these resin cars for other modelers out there: I've found that to get a really good chrome effect on grilles, bumpers, etc., I first airbrush the entire car with Alclad "Chrome" after first spraying the body moldings with a thin undercoat of gloss black paint. Then I carefully hand-paint the rest of the colors using Acrylic paints such as Model Master. It isn't all that hard to paint right up to the chrome parts, even the thin strips down the body sides. And the Alclad doesn't clog or fill in the delicate grille details like regular paint does. The end result is a convincing chrome look that is even better looking than the plated chrome found on CMW and Woodland Scenics cars. As a finishing touch, I spray the completed model with Testors Satin Clear Finish to smooth out the surfaces and tone down the gloss and then add Kristal Klear window glazing. The end result is a virtual match for the best of the CMW offerings, and sometimes even better.
Lorenthanks for revealing your painting technique. Yours are some outstanding models!I'm quite familiar with the Alclad chrome (over gloss black) as I use it on my larger model cars (my other hobby). But your technique has me a bit puzzled. Any non water-based clear (especially satin) when applied over the chrome-like Alclad finish will instantly dull it (make it look like silver paint). To me that seems like a lot of effort is made to achieve a chrome-like finish on the bumpers (along with having to carefully paint everything else with body colors), just to make the chromed areas "less-chromy" with the satin clear over everything. Couldn't a similar result (slightly dull chrome) be achieved by simpler means? Could you just paint the car body with the desired color, apply the clear satin, then just carefully paint the chromed areas with the old-fashioned Testors chrome paint (from the little square bottles). Wouldn't Testors "chrome" be similar in appearance to the satin-clear-coated Alclad chrome over gloss black?
....On other cars, especially in my desert scenes, the Testors aerosol satin finish reduces the chrome reflectivity a little, but it still looks like chrome plating instead of paint, at least to my eyes. I've sprayed satin finish over most of my stock CMW cars to cut down the excessive chrome gleam to a more acceptable level - sort of like scaling paint to simulate viewing from a distance through haze. So to sum up, with some cars, I leave off the satin finish to enhance the chrome parts and shiny paint; on others, I spray it on to weather the cars. And yes, it's a lot of effort, but I find it relaxing and a nice break from making scenery, wiring lights, and so on.
I've done that. But painting Testors chrome paint (or similar) by brush often obscures some of the more delicate detail in the elaborate grillework. But you can spray on Alclad Chrome with virtually no fear of obscuring anything. On a few of my cars, I've left the entire car shiny with no satin overspray to represent a new, clean car. The two DeSotos seen in the churchyard scene are examples of this. The chrome parts really gleam on them. On other cars, especially in my desert scenes, the Testors aerosol satin finish reduces the chrome reflectivity a little, but it still looks like chrome plating instead of paint, at least to my eyes. I've sprayed satin finish over most of my stock CMW cars to cut down the excessive chrome gleam to a more acceptable level - sort of like scaling paint to simulate viewing from a distance through haze. So to sum up, with some cars, I leave off the satin finish to enhance the chrome parts and shiny paint; on others, I spray it on to weather the cars. And yes, it's a lot of effort, but I find it relaxing and a nice break from making scenery, wiring lights, and so on.
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