{"id":499,"date":"2010-06-25T06:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T06:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/499-painting-your-spaceships-2.html"},"modified":"2014-07-03T16:56:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T16:56:32","slug":"painting-your-spaceships-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/painting-your-spaceships-2","title":{"rendered":"Painting your Spaceships"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago Steve of Third Fate Creations<\/a> approached us about showing off
\n his painting skills on some of the space ships on Shapeways. Steve
\nworks with mini designers in a very selective way. He chooses designs
\nthat 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
\ncheck out the pricing and also a lot of airbrush and painting tips on his
\nsite<\/a>. <\/p>\n

We gave Steve a few models so he could show off his
\nskill for you guys and hopefully get you all to start thinking of the
\npossibilities of combining airbrushing with your 3D prints. For
\nShapeways Steve painted two of  Charles Oines intricate and wonderful
\nspaceships: the Ryuushi
\n Warleader<\/a> and the Martian
\n Icaria Class Strike Cruiser<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Steve, “used an airbrush on all but the “gem\/glass reflection
\nspots” and on
\nthose used a 00 brush.
The paint is a combination of GW, Createx, and
\n Autoair, depending on what effect I needed.
It took, roughly, 4-6
\nhrs total time to prep and paint each one.” <\/p>\n

If you look at Charles’ Shop<\/a>
\n you can see that the models are tiny.The Dominator for example of 0.9
\nby 3.6 by 3.9 cm. The intricate painting detail that Steve managed to
\nwith at this scale is just crazy.  <\/p>\n

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