Well i have the range finder, stalk, ear caps all installed and a visor in place now so moving on to some air brushing
So here goes.
So there was some mess, some frustration, some learning, some failure and some success.
Apologises now for the pictures, its hard to tell the difference in the colours till right at the end, you'll see what i mean.
So, as i said previously, i was practicing on a spare ear puck to get used to..well, everything really.
Started by priming and then done a base coat of silver (which become redundant) then onto the air brushing.
Here is the ear after first layer of base coat.
I'll do some quick explaining, I'm still using the ESB stencils, thank you
RafalFett (of the
denteddentedhelmet) but using a different colour scheme, and since the ear cap only has three colours, the green, red and grey/silver, it meant that my base colour of silver iwas pointless because i had already bought my 3 air brush colours so my silver wasn't necessary, causing (what you see in the above picture) brown to be my base colour. (hopefully that makes sense, if not just look at the pictures and enjoy )
Anyway, here is the first layer after a couple of coats and time to dry out a bit
It is darker than the picture will have you believe.
Masked ready for my second layer, this was just done free hand using ref pictures/stencils at hand to look at.
That
is the same colour as the picture before it.
Gets even more frustrated with the next picture...
...because that is the second colour/layer done which is much, MUCH light cream colour that the first brown coloured layer.
The difference between the colours is evident in the next picture, masking fluid removed.
Now before you think, I'm not doing a desert camo theme, I couldn't help but think that myself as I removed the masking fluid.
One more colour/layer to be added before some light weathering so it doesn't look so sterile.
So how does it look from your end? See any issues or have any suggestions or questions, all comments welcome (within reason, lets keep it clean)
Till next time.