discussion USAAF F-51d

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Ooooh that is a superb job. I like that a lot.

 

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There is really no secret or magic to a good metal look. Just have a very smooth clean base, I usually pollish with 3600 paper then shoot some gloss black enamel as a base coat.


Over this I spray 3 coats alclad airframe alluminium, mask of a few pannels then spray 3 more coats of the same alclad (not a different shade) to make the unmasked pannels lighter. Thus way there is a subtle difference in the tone of the pannels, not as "heavy" as using different shades of alclad.


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I decal then seal it all with alclad clearcoat.....simple.


Look at my J-6 to see what I mean "shading" with only alrframe and pollished allu on different pannels.


Theuns

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cadillac air ... well done, Greetings