This was an extremely difficult phase to complete - the Aeroshuttle
and bridge / sensor painting I can handle, but this was a bit much!
The primary difficulties were masking
the phaser strips, then getting the color correct. Masking was
extremely difficult because of the splines made by the strips (no
straight edges), making the pieces of mask <.25" in length the
whole way up and around the strips. If anybody knows how
to do this better, I'm all ears! This process for the underside
alone took over three hours.
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Tom Sasser said he liked to "add a little brown" to his
phaser strips, and I tried to darken them as well. I ended up
mixing Tan with Afrika Dunkelgrau about 5/4. A little chaos got
thrown in when I mixed the final solution in the airbrush paint
container and realized the pipette wasn't clean, introducing light
grey and dunkelblau! The first coat was orange, so I slapped
some black in there until it was dark enough.
The final color is really
quite radical, and I think would take more ability than I posses to
duplicate. I think, however, it's technically correct... ;)
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