effects with paint edges /any ideas for this

[steveo3002]

• **PIC IS OF REAL SEATS..MINE HAVE NO STITCHING DETAIL***

any ideas on the 2x rows of stitch up the center of these seats , cant for the life of me scribe a decent looking line

was thinking maybe mask an edge and paint to it and repeat until i have these lines ..ir maybe pencil em on later?

any ideas folks

Edited by steveo3002 on Tuesday 5th February 15:04

[BlueMR2]

A very thin brush using pin striping techniques perhaps.

[steveo3002]

yeah i cant see me brushing those lines in

[BlueMR2]

Ruler, lol.

[Big Fat Fatty]

Tape two scalpel blades together so you can cut some masking tape in very fine lines, lay the thin strips on the seats and paint over it. Then just peel it off and it should leave you enough of a recess that you can paint a slightly darker shade or a different colour entirely into it.

What are you building?

[Red Firecracker]

Have a search for 'pre-shading'. Spray in the darker lines first, spray your main colour coat and then re-mask and spray a lighter central stripe up each section. You do need a light touch though and not be too heavy handed.

[steveo3002]

Big Fat Fatty said:

What are you building?

its a delorean /back to the future car

[The_Jackal]

Do they have to be painted a particular colour? Would a dark wash bring the stitching out enough?

[slomax]

The_Jackal said:

Do they have to be painted a particular colour? Would a dark wash bring the stitching out enough?

i was thinking something similar. what about applying shoe polish and then wiping away the excess with some alcohol/thinner- just make sure that the thinner you use doesn't strip the paint too!?

[steveo3002]

they need to be that mid grey colour

just to be clear.i should have said , the seats are smooth in that area , no detail at all THE PIC IS OF REAL ONES

Edited by steveo3002 on Tuesday 5th February 15:03

[Red Firecracker]

If you want to go 3D, probably the best way is to build up the seats with Milliput and then press in the detail, which you can use a straight edge for to save scribing.

[Composite Guru]

I have not tried this bit maybe masking the width of both stitches and spray a slightly dark strip down the middle of the seat.
De mask and re apply masking tape just over the outer edge of the darker stripe both sides and respray the original colour. When you remove the mask you should end up with a thin line to represent the stitch?

Just an idea.

Matt

[The_Jackal]

How about printing some faint decals for the creases. Once they are sealed in it should give a nice effect.
I think Firecracker is the decal expert.

[dr_gn]

I'd go with RF's suggestion of preshading. If it doesn't work, just strip them and try someting else. I'd also preshade the moulded in stitching too. If you look about half way down here:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

The wing ribs are masked and pre-shaded to give a hard edge. The pre-shading might look better done freehand rather than masked to give a feathered edge. You need to be confident to use an airbrush pretty much to the limit of it's capability in terms of finesse of the lines though.

The seats on my scrapped 1:24 S2000 were both pre-shaded and trated with a dark wash. Personally I'd miss the wash out on light seats.



The only other thing I can think of is to mask the lines with thin tape, and spray with Halford filler primer, or Mr.Surfacer, which is a kind of filler primer for models. When you remove the tape you'll have a fair build-up of paint at each side.

[steveo3002]

seems to be working

heres a pic after masking two stripes and high build primer , then one more coat after de masking , ive also added 0.3mm wire piping

[Big Fat Fatty]

That looks great, nice work Steve

[dr_gn]

steveo3002 said:

seems to be working

heres a pic after masking two stripes and high build primer , then one more coat after de masking , ive also added 0.3mm wire piping

Good texture on the seats too.