waynem325
Gravity Guru
I only get 2 or 3 hours a few times each week to paint, so this has taken around 2 weeks! It's far from perfect, but I'm hoping that once it's complete there'll be enough detail throughout the whole helmet that no one will notice any specific error??!!!
Having limited resources I borrowed a hole punch from work, and using a doubled strip of masking tape, punched out hundreds of dots which I then used as rivet templates.
I used wicked detail black reduced at 20:1 (how amazing is this stuff?! Even reduced by that much I could get a deep black after only a couple of passes!). I also had a go using white to add highlights, but the results were pretty dire and I ended up going over each rivet with silver before then adding black again.
I used an eraser pencil and a scalpel to add brighter highlights and last night finished off with a couple of light coats of 1k clear to protect it.
No idea what I'm doing next, but I want to do similar on the other side but have a missing piece looking into the head with circuit boards or something, on display?
Watch this space!