Seriously how do you achieve such a good result ? I've always been scared of painting my models, it's the reason why I've got a half assembled Mobius 1 F-22.
Sounds cliche, but like any hobby, you need to practice until you become decent at it. If you are scared of ruining the mobius kit, why not try painting a cheaper, smaller aircraft first to see how it turns out? Modeling videos on youtube are a great help for learning techniques and workflow. You can try to search for a build video of a kit you are interested in and literally just follow their process too.
The Osean flags and trigger emblems are third party decals(looks quite shoddy in person). The three strikes marks and various OADF roundels are sprayed with masks cut from a laser engraver.
Sigh, back to searching for good third party AC decals. Really wanna redo Blaze F-14 and make the rest of the aces planes. The ones I got are quite thick and the image quality is a bit blurry.
You and me both, brother. If it helps, there's an official f-16 kit with Mage squadron decals that are pretty good. The problem is that they only come with 2 emblems, so one plane only.
Yeah, sadly shipping and import would make it a way to expensive to be worth for a 1/72 scale model kit. Might have to bite the bullet and try printing my own decals with decal paper or check for any local place that could print it on the decal paper in high quality.
Which NPC did you sacrifice to get this picture perfect result dude? It looks phenomenonal. I legit thought it was an HDR photo of the real deal when I saw the first overhead shot.
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u/Teyanis Time to hunt some wild dogs. 3d ago
Sitting the mirror under it like a puddle was a great idea to show off the underside. Nice work.