{"id":4084,"date":"2010-11-21T20:13:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T01:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/?p=4084"},"modified":"2010-11-21T20:13:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T01:13:02","slug":"in-progress-%c2%bb-fish-sub-%c2%bb-copper-clad-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/in-progress-%c2%bb-fish-sub-%c2%bb-copper-clad-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"In Progress \u00c2\u00bb Fish Sub \u00c2\u00bb Copper Clad Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"

While typing out that copper test tutorial, I was also masking and painting the copper portions of the fish sub. Before that however I painted the engine and periscope. I started out by painting portions of the engine and periscope in Mr. Metal Color Bronze. I buffed these parts with a toothbrush, gave them a satin clearcoat of FFA, then masked and airbrushed most of the brass. After removing the masking I hand painted portions of the brass (and copper pipes) such as the trim of the big ballast tank and other smaller details.<\/p>\n

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I set these aside and began work on the main copper-clad fish submersible body. The painting is based on a colorscheme which I posted on the FichtenFoo facebook page a few days ago and now seen below:<\/p>\n

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You can see that my intent is to make some of the copper panels lighter and darker and in various patina-forming stages adding more depth and shading to the sub. The fins will eventually be some sort of tarnished brass\/bronze alloy. At least that’s my barely feasible explanation as to why I want them that greenish brass tone. Mainly I just think it looks nice.<\/p>\n

After finishing cleaning up the mounting rod hole I gave the sub another coat of dark gray Duplicolor primer, then a coat of the green self-etching primer.<\/p>\n

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Once cured I airbrushed on a mixture of Alclad II lacquers I call “bronze”. It’s a mixture of Steel, Copper and Aluminum which I first mixed up years ago for the Briegel<\/a>. This gives me a nice dark metallic base to start from.<\/p>\n

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After the “bronze” dried I masked and randomly airbrushed on in vertical streaks some Alclad II copper which is pretty dark. Over that I streaked on some Mr. Metal Color copper which is a lighter tone and buffable to make it very shiny and natural looking.<\/p>\n

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Here it is at the first stage without the masking. It’s an interesting look, very cool for another project, but only halfway done for this one.<\/p>\n

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More masking and color applications and I got it to this stage. It’s hard to see the streaking and panel tone changes however in the image. Still not quite there however…<\/p>\n

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I wanted the panel color changes to be better defined so I masked again and over-sprayed some Alclad II Jet Exhaust. You can now see the improved panel definition.<\/p>\n

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And to show it off better, here it is in different lighting:<\/p>\n

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Next I’ll air and hand-brush the brass onto the porthole frame and other pipes and fittings.<\/p>\n\n\n