Finally put some paint to shell this weekend after a couple of weeks of sacrificial lemonade bottles and sheets of acetate - I'm reasonably happy overall for a first attempt (since a few rattle-can type jobs when I were a lad) but I know there are a lot of little errors which are really niggling me!
main problems I encountered were:
RCS chrome coming away with the liquid masking when lifted - this was probably the main one - maybe I sprayed it on too thick or didn't give it long enough to harden - any ideas?
Cutting the masking in hard to reach areas, such as the window frames, particularly the tops of the side windows
Has anyone ever tried one of these fingertip knives?
knifey
difficulty in peeling off the liquid mask - I suspect I didn't lay it on thick enough in certain areas meaning it came away in tiny pieces - again
Drop shadows - bit annoyed about this as I thought I'd got better on the bottles but when the pressure was on to get it right on the shell I did them too heavy and I don't think I thinned the paint enough - it was a little bit spattery...
But it hasn't put me off! I want to try the same design again for my next shell and try to cut out all of the problems this time...
All advice/criticism greatfully received
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