With a little help from my friends - ROTJ SE WIP

Artakha · Oct 2, 2016

Nice job there!!

DentedGent · Oct 4, 2016

The base grey layer is done and masked.

And the silver is down!

Moving along steadily now...

DentedGent · Oct 4, 2016

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...

Sent from my iPhone

mainst69 · Oct 4, 2016

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!

DentedGent · Oct 6, 2016

Silver masking done and grey is down. Tomorrow I move on to the green.

DentedGent · Oct 7, 2016

Damage done, on to the green...

DentedGent · Oct 8, 2016

Green down.

Level3Fett · Oct 8, 2016

Peeling that masking off will be like opening a present at Christmas...can't wait

opcorn

dv8r · Oct 8, 2016

Looking great!! How do you get your mask so thick? If it's not multiple applications, what brand are you using?

DentedGent · Oct 8, 2016

Level3Fett said:
Peeling that masking off will be like opening a present at Christmas...can't wait opcorn

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.

DentedGent · Oct 8, 2016

dv8r said:
Looking great!! How do you get your mask so thick? If it's not multiple applications, what brand are you using?

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.