Will Vale Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 Hi all, As teased in the other thread, I finished off the Tiger Sharks which are the bigger T'au planes - more bomber than fighter. I wasn't totally sold on the finish on the Barracudas I did first - the enamel always makes things a bit messy and sticky and then it's hard to get rid of every last piece of fluff. I thought I'd take advantage of the big panel lines and use acrylics this time round. It turns out that you can get quite nice soft effects around features by pre-wetting the area with medium and then wicking the paint into the detail. And because the original paint was lacquer (and sealed with Klear) I could use a wet cocktail stick when I needed to clean up. I need to take some pics of the whole flight, but before I do that I'll try and fix the silvering on the small triangular decals, and clean up a blotch I noticed. One of them has an open missile bay with red-edges doors like a proper plane Thanks for looking! Will 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Rose Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 Nice panel variation, impressive at that scale 😎 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Vale Posted August 28, 2020 Author Share Posted August 28, 2020 On 8/27/2020 at 4:55 AM, Hunter Rose said: Nice panel variation, impressive at that scale 😎 Thanks Nick, it was mostly done by taking a leaf out of Andy Moore's book and painting on thin acrylic glazes - I mixed them from the Contrast paints, but I think Andy uses Vallejo. There's quite bit of white highlighting on the edges too, but it's hard to see against Insignia White, which I guess is good 'cos then it looks subtle Will 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Vale Posted August 28, 2020 Author Share Posted August 28, 2020 Forgot - here they are together. I might end up retouching the Barracudas as the white-then-brown chipping on the red looks really messy in the small scale. Will 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey-1980 Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 Very cool looking aircraft! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Moore Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 Nice work Will. I really like the schemes on these. The curved red section at the front makes a great contrast to the angular design of the Tiger Sharks On 24/08/2020 at 10:35, Will Vale said: the enamel always makes things a bit messy and sticky and then it's hard to get rid of every last piece of fluff That's the main reason I've cut down on using them. You can get much cleaner results with acrylics, especially at small scales. Andy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Vale Posted September 14, 2020 Author Share Posted September 14, 2020 I didn't have a good way to get the blends (without glazing over and over at very low opacity levels, for which I don't have the patience!) but now that I've got an answer to that it's much more attractive. Will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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