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I'de like to share a Technique that I recently came up with and tried with good results.
I had been studying Sodmiesters TLP Martel AS 37 Thread, and really liked the way he did his Detail Work as usual.
One of his Details was the small circular Hatch/Panel that is on the Body of the Missile.
I wanted to emulate this Detail, and one day, while wandering through the Office Supplies Aisle at Walmart I saw these Self Adhesive Labels and had an Idea.
I started out by only using one, but it was not thick enough to look very good after Primer. I realized that by stacking them, I could make them any thickness I desired within reason.
One of the reasons that they are easy to work with is that they are bright Colors, which allows you to align them ontop of one another perfectly by using alternating Colors per Layer.
In this Pic' that I made as an Example, the one on the left is correct and the one on the right shows how it looks when they don't line up:
You can easily see how the Colors make it easy to stack them in a concentric manner.
Here is how they look in my case after a bit of Primer:
Another good thing about these, as opposed to gluing on Cardstock, is that if you absolutely have to, you can peel them off even after you have done a Coat of Primer. As I stated earlier, I tried to see how it looked with only one and it did'nt have the Depth I wanted, also, my first Coat of Primer in this instance showed many Flaws which needed attention.
The Adhesive is ample to permanently keep them there, and I'm sure that after Primer, Paint and Clear Coat they are not coming off on their own.
Anyway, that's my Experience and I hope that someone finds this Technique useful.
I had been studying Sodmiesters TLP Martel AS 37 Thread, and really liked the way he did his Detail Work as usual.
One of his Details was the small circular Hatch/Panel that is on the Body of the Missile.
I wanted to emulate this Detail, and one day, while wandering through the Office Supplies Aisle at Walmart I saw these Self Adhesive Labels and had an Idea.
I started out by only using one, but it was not thick enough to look very good after Primer. I realized that by stacking them, I could make them any thickness I desired within reason.
One of the reasons that they are easy to work with is that they are bright Colors, which allows you to align them ontop of one another perfectly by using alternating Colors per Layer.
In this Pic' that I made as an Example, the one on the left is correct and the one on the right shows how it looks when they don't line up:
You can easily see how the Colors make it easy to stack them in a concentric manner.
Here is how they look in my case after a bit of Primer:
Another good thing about these, as opposed to gluing on Cardstock, is that if you absolutely have to, you can peel them off even after you have done a Coat of Primer. As I stated earlier, I tried to see how it looked with only one and it did'nt have the Depth I wanted, also, my first Coat of Primer in this instance showed many Flaws which needed attention.
The Adhesive is ample to permanently keep them there, and I'm sure that after Primer, Paint and Clear Coat they are not coming off on their own.
Anyway, that's my Experience and I hope that someone finds this Technique useful.