How to use Alclads for a weathered aluminum finish on your aircraft model
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Using Alclad lacquers can make your NMF (natural metal finish) aircraft shine, but what about a weathered, worn, oxidized look?
This is an experiment on Revell's ancient SR-71, using 3 different primers and 7 different shades of Alclad Aluminium....
Hope it helps!
I find your compassions to be the clearest, most beneficial of all. No wasted time, or unnecessary dialogue. Excellent post! Thanks
Wow, thank you! I sometimes think I speak too much, but there it is!
Very thorough. I stll have some bottles of Alcad lurking around - gotta whip them out.
You're welcome - me too, I want to tackle a Razor Crest soon!
Very helpful video! Some great ideas for my first bare metal effort with a 1/48 T-33.
Glad it was helpful! Cheers Chris
Nice to see Alcads haven't completely died out and great to see Doogs experiments have created some interest. Thanks for putting that comprehensive test together Chris, I have the B-58 Hustler planned in the near future and with Alcads on my shelf this was the perfect test.
Cheers Chris, this is really a great help to a relatively new airbrusher who`s thinking of stretching to NMF`s.
wow what a great video super useful, looks great
Thanks so much! Hope it helps in your modelling endeavours...
G'day Chris, Outstanding 'paint science' video. Just working my way through your old videos and it's amazing what you got up to. Yours is a simple yet very logical way of searching for the right finish for a particular model build. And, as you discovered, with almost every experiment, one learns something that was totally unexpected. This is going into my all metal aircraft research file, if you don't mind. It's bonza. Well done. Hope you and the family have a great 2022! Happy New Year! Cheers, Bill H.
Thanks Bill - I need to redo this video using the newer AK Extreme metal and MRP paints and see what I come up with! Cheers, you too for the 2022!
@@beckersmodels G'day, Chris, That would be particularly interesting for me as I've just stocked up on AK Extreme metal paints. I'm going to do a series of large WW2 bombers, like the B-17, B-29 and and a couple the big Cold War Russian bombers, all mostly in bare metal. I agree with you about the advantages of a black base, however, seeing your results from the other method, I'll give that a go as well, just to see what finishes I can get. I really like the 'silver' US bomber liveries as they highlighted most of them with striking, bright solid colours that really pop out against the metal. There are some spectacular liveries for Liberator 'Lead Bombers' that I want to tackle as well.
I like your approach of experiments in various finishes. I get a little bored with doing the same paint schemes as everyone else does. A few years back I did an exact replica of the brand new Liberator that was a 'gift' from Douglas MacArthur to General Thomas Blamey. It had no markings on it at all apart from the RAAF roundels and a tiny A- number hidden under the tail. Blamey also had an all metal C-60 Lodestar which I did after I had a fascinating meeting with Blamey's personal pilot, who is still with us, living in WA. He loaned me all his log books to copy; it was very valuable for our Blamey documentary project.
Anyway, I'm enjoying going through your videos and picking up some of your tips along the way. Cheers, mate and all the best. Glad to see 2021 is finally over. Bill
As I'm planing to building a bare metal SAAB AJ 37 Viggen - I'm really happy that you included that relatively rare beauty of a beast among your examples ^^,
Yeah, I'll take one of my two Special Hobby AJ37's out of my stash, where I also happen to have 2x Tarangus JA37, 1x Tarangus SH/SF37, 3x Esci AJ37, 3x Esci JA37 and 2x Airfix JA37 waiting to be built... ;) Have you built the Special Hobby/Tarangus kit?
You have avery nice way of talking, nice calm, friendly and relaxed. Makes it very easy to listen to. That's a very refreshing departure from a lot of instructional videos. I greatly enjoyed your experiments too!
Exactly what i was looking for. Cheers mate!
Very detailed coverage of shininess...
Great tests, thank you for the science! Could you clarify the grey primer you used? I want to achieve similar on a B-47 kit.
Great video thanks.
You're welcome, hoped it helped, cheers Chris
really good and comprehensive test. thanks for sharing
This is what I should do to my Tu-134 wing to each different panel. I was trying to figure out how to go from a silver to a yellowed panel.
Excellent review man! 👍
I so needed this!
Did you have any issues with masking tape lifting this type of paint?
Chris, how long did you let the Alclads dry before hitting them with the various effects? Of special curiosity is the enamel washes.
thank you very much, very interesting!
Another helpful video. Just a quick question. Do you need to take any precautions when making alclad? Thank you for the helpful info.
Thanks Robert - with Alclad its the usual lacquer spraying problems its quite toxic, so always wear a respirator etc...
@Becker's Models Thanks, Chris
Great video. Thanks for the info.
Appreciate this was from years ago and not what it was originally designed to test, though, which combination do you think would work best for the Razor Crest?
It's very reflective on places, but also beat up and heavily weathered/pitted in other places
Thats a very good question and one I will try to resolve once I get back to my Razor Crest - I will be using a similar technique here, maybe not Alclads all over, using MRP or SMS paints as I prefer their controllability, but I will update this once Ive done some experiments...cheers Chris
I would love to see you do the same exact video, using non Alclad paint. Perhaps even AK Extreme Metals. These are not laquer, and have the same color spectrum. Alclads are SO FUSSY. Or Mr. Color range.
Great suggestion! Stay tuned as I might be doing that soon with an upcoming build...
How the matte effect is obtained? Sandpaper, matte paint?
Any trouble with the Alclad lifting using masking tape?
Not if you detack the masking tape several times before applying- I usually use the back of my hand 3 or 4 times. Cheers Chris
@@beckersmodels nice thanks
Sorry, I don't see _any_ differences in the primers.
Chis mentions marbling frequently but does not explain how it is done. Fortunately he identifies Matt McDougall who has an excellent blog which explains these effects.
Hi Jean, check out my black basing video where I explain and show marbling in close detail. ruclips.net/video/iof95c0htdU/видео.html
Experimenting with Alclads for weathered aluminum finish.......shows thumbnail of Titanium aircraft...
well there is 3% aluminium in the titanium alloy used in the SR-71, so maybe a thumbnail is relevant to your comment, being so small and insignificant? Cheers, Chris
@@beckersmodels No offense intended.
Been building a 1/48 Testors YF-12 which I’m going to paint in the original 1963 Area-51 “livery” which was unpainted, except for the black leading and trailing edges of the wings and chines. So that thumbnail (an A-12) is actually what caught my eye. I think the key for titanium will be a Matt black primer, it instead of “marbled” undershading, it will be more feathered, and faded using a mix of metallics and matte/gloss. I saw a P-38 build on Primed Model Works where Sean dusted a coat of chrome (after marbling Matt grey over gloss black) before doing the final top coat of airframe aluminum. This helped blend the finish difference between the matte and gloss in the final finish. I think that technique, using a dusting of ti gold in place of chrome will give it the warm titanium look I’m after.