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Hey everyone.

Finally got around to painting the windscreen on the Stormtalon I did ages and ages ago - thought I'd show you all.





I've never been a fan of interior detail as the scaling just looks odd - so I sprayed up a NMM reflective surface. Looking at it now I wish I'd added a little blue into the middle greys, just to offset the yellow (then again, who says there is blue sky in M41?) but it's all good.

I've been trying to improve my photos too - so if anyone out there has any tips they are more than welcome.

Cheers, Aidan.

Really great paint job.

You should however do it justice and post it in the showcase forum

I'd have to base it!

Ooh thats really nice looking. The windshield looks awesome.

How did you do the windshield?

I sprayed an undercoat of black first, after roughing up the surface with some 1200 grit sandpaper (as the clear plastic is so shiny that I didn't trust that the primer would stick by itself).

First was a basecoat of Fortress grey. Then I masked off a section at a time and sprayed a blend of black and white for the highlights and shadows reflections.

After that came a couple of straight lines with some over-reduced white - in order to create a lens flare.

Job done.

So nice man!