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Friday, June 25. 2010

Painting your Spaceships

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A few weeks ago Steve of Third Fate Creations approached us about showing off his painting skills on some of the space ships on Shapeways. Steve works with mini designers in a very selective way. He chooses designs that inspire him and then paints them. Mostly this is for a fee and sometimes when Steve is really inspired it is in return for credit and keeping the painted mini. You can check out the pricing and also a lot of airbrush and painting tips on his site.

We gave Steve a few models so he could show off his skill for you guys and hopefully get you all to start thinking of the possibilities of combining airbrushing with your 3D prints. For Shapeways Steve painted two of  Charles Oines intricate and wonderful spaceships: the Ryuushi Warleader and the Martian Icaria Class Strike Cruiser.


Steve, "used an airbrush on all but the "gem/glass reflection spots" and on those used a 00 brush.
The paint is a combination of GW, Createx, and Autoair, depending on what effect I needed.
It took, roughly, 4-6 hrs total time to prep and paint each one."

If you look at Charles' Shop you can see that the models are tiny.The Dominator for example of 0.9 by 3.6 by 3.9 cm. The intricate painting detail that Steve managed to with at this scale is just crazy. 


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Posted by Joris Peels in Art, Community, Contests, Gadget Lab, Gadgets, Inspiration, Shapeways, Software, Tutorials, What's Hot at 06:37

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Wow! I had not considered using an air brush on minis for details. Aerosol primers or an under coats are about as far as I went with that. Very impressive.
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#1 Todd Zircher on 2010-06-25 15:18 (Reply)

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