[PROJECT] Airbrushed 'BIOSHOCK' TJ-07

[R B Customs]

woop woop,
time for another one

Brief:

Insides:
will be painted to look like a bucket of rust just like alot of the textures used in bioshock, lots of drips, rust, alge etc.

Outside: Im thinking a mainly metal look, dark metal, rusted up, again lots of texture, and of course... the BIG DADDY!
for good measure theres gonna be the bioshock logo somewhere on the case too.

Its all up in the air at the moment, Im just gonna make the composition up as i go along.

This project will be interupted by the Crysis project, so stick around


preparation pics.


Proper preparation is key to a great finish, so heres how I go about it.


everything is taken apart, sanded down, cleaned, cleaned and tacked off, then the appropriate primer used ( high build or etch)

sometimes I create a kind of washing line to hand parts from to paint.

Once the primer has been sprayed its left for nearly 24 hours to harden, then sanded down, cleaned and tacked off ready for base coat,

this time the base coat is silver and better still i don't have to worry about how well i apply it, as its gonna end up looking like a rust bucket anyway

Ill just let the pics do the talking here...


stay tuned

[ExodusC]

I think I like where this is going. :D

[64dragon]

sweet, i'll be watching this thread, i love the TJ07 and will most likely getting one when i get a chance to upgrade my case

[disruptfam]

Cant wait... i remember you doing a monster tjo7 awhile back it is still one of my fav rigs on here...

Awesome

[Nate P.]

Looks to be awesome!

[.Logic]

Sounds awesome, I'm intrigued by the mention of the crysis project also

[R B Customs]

Sounds awesome, I'm intrigued by the mention of the crysis project also

If 'City-link' is good to me today i should have the case for it today crysis project will be priority... but its gonna be nice to have 2 on the go to keep me fresh

[hoax]

sounds very promising

will keep my eyes on this one

[speedbuggy76]

can't wait to see the big daddy on the side, should be sweet

[Fujimitsu]

can't wait to see the big daddy on the side, should be sweet

Ditto, very interested to see how this comes out. Best of luck!

[TRG]

Should give some nice results!

[R B Customs]

Got an update for the log.

I was playing about with the rusty for a while and decided that simplicity was the best option.

I started going down the green algae route, with spots of rust and flakey metal, but it just wasn't working. when i looked at the photo the next day, then the real thing in my workshop , i realised it was a lost cause.

I started doing the side your not likely to see, and liked the result... now i just have to do the same thing another 5 times :|

Heres a pic,


and the final result


Those blisters / water droplets are painted on by the way... no trickery here

Dont worry about the bottom corner of the MB tray, thats gonna be sorted out


Of course when clear coated the colours will pop out and the drops and blisters will stand out more and look great.

stay tuned!

rb

[disruptfam]

wow looks good

[mike8913]

how exactly do you create those water droplet effects? do you allow moister into the air line? a quick explanation would be awesome if you don't mind.

[noel82]

tuned...awesome project

[Frag_Lord]

All I can say is that looks freakin awesome ^_^

Cant wait till its finished.

[.Logic]

It's at times like these, when I do not have the words to express 'the awesomeness' of something, I am thankful for emoticons!

[kuhla]

jawsome

[Nate P.]

Holy crap! That's awesome!

[R B Customs]

Okay,
im going to go into a little more detail about how the rust effect is achieved, and probably put everyone off airbrushing for life in the process he he!


The first step is the silver base coat. TO be honest, this didnt even need to be silver, grey would have worked too, but silver gives a little more depth to the colours once they are on ( this could be a bad thing though! )


once the silver base is on, solid black is used to detail, this will be the first layer of black, and there will be another 2-3 layers / patterns to follow. Not all the detail is painted into the first one.






From black i use a colour refered to as molly orange, its a bit like the colour of those orange ford focus's or, indeed an orange! - very bright!
You will notice that fresh rust is also this colour, and when sprayed loosely ontop of the silver starts to look like fresh rust at its early stages. i spray this in a pretty random pattern, some bit heavier than others.







Next is a semi transparent orange, which may as well be yellow... I'm sure you will agree at this point it looks like i have lost the pot... why that hell is he spraying yellow? it looks horrid doesn't it?








the yellow is re enforced by a darker root beer like colour, sprayed in streaks.


next more black is added and all the colours are darkened down - this makes the biggest difference!

A little red and green ( i know it should never work but it does! ) are added and jobs a good n.







All the panels are done now and currently drying over night before i finish the blister effect and clear coat them, Then i promise... the interesting part will begin!
thanks for watching.

Rb

[hmammen]

wow looks great!

[Colossous]

Great skills dude !

[Nate P.]

Amazing job man!

[BNDMOD]

Suscribed .... very nice project!!!

[.Logic]

How long have you been airbrushing for?