With a little help from my friends - ROTJ SE WIP

Whoops! Looks like I forgot to remove the incorrect masking near the dent! Good thing I posted these to reflect before I moved on! Haha off to fix that...


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Yeah, you're back panels came out great. You're right that perfect mix of blue in your grey green is hard to get to, and then it changes with the lighting! Enjoying your thread, I'm gonna give the layered approach a go on my next bucket see if I can mask worth a dang!

Good luck and keep up the good work!
 
Level3Fett said:
Peeling that masking off will be like opening a present at Christmas...can't wait :popcorn
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Never a truer statement! I'll try to get my peeling process on a bit of video, since most of my friends have mistaken the masking for purple paint. Lol
I think I've had to clarify over 12 times that it's not paint but masking fluid... but I still get blank stares. I guess they gotta see it to understand the backwards method of painting this way. :P
 
dv8r said:
Looking great!! How do you get your mask so thick? If it's not multiple applications, what brand are you using?
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It's a combination of an accident and multiple applications actually. I left the open bottle of Humbrol maskol under my studio lamp and it ended up curing it slightly and changing the whole viscosity of the bottle. It actually helps in getting more accurate globs that don't run and isn't too thin to work with. Sticks better to the toothpick too, much more control. If there was a part that I thought would be too thin and a pain to demask, I would just dab a couple more drops here and there so that I make a lip that I know I will be able to grasp. Also, I mask all the damage on top of each other masked layer so that's why it ends up caked on top so thick. The maskol is such a sturdy product that I've never had a problem removing all the layers over each other. The hardest part is the scratches (which I honestly should be scratching in anyway) but I like the effect it gives.
 


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