PAINTING carbon fibre

[AceCobra1]

Hi all, I was just wondering if you guys know of a technique which would allow me to recreate a carbon fibre pattern by painting it on especially on the awkwardly shaped parts. I saw a video which showed a guy painting black on then i think it was metallic sliver or equivelent onto it masked by those 1/24 meshes... But I also remember seeing someone doing a similar technique using women's stockings as masks instead?? Is that true and any ideas or techniques ?

[MidMazar]

Stockings work, just have to be careful not touch the part while painting. Paint the part black first, let dry and then use the mesh/stocking/other and spray a metalic paint like a steel or light gunmetal through it. Good luck.

[512BB]

Originally Posted by MidMazar

Stockings work, just have to be careful not touch the part while painting. Paint the part black first, let dry and then use the mesh/stocking/other and spray a metalic paint like a steel or light gunmetal through it. Good luck.

I bet not all stockings will work, unless it's fish net!

[mattbacon]

I used some mesh "ribbon" from an Easter egg! You can get the same stuff from craft stores or dressmakers stores. It's a very fine mesh, but bigger than stockings (which would be too small, IMHO). It's metallic looking as well, so it's quite stiff. I have some very dark black-grey, and a metallic gunmetal (dark silver) mixed up (using Hiroby colours, but anything would do) I paint in one colour, and once it's dry, shoot shoot through the mesh ribbon with the other. I vary it, sometimes doing silver over black, sometimes black over silver. I mix them up on the same model, to break up the areas a bit. It doesn't REALLY look like carbon fibre, but at a glance, or from couple of feet away, it gives a pretty convincing effect...



If you look closely, you can see it on the panel below the lights (and it you look REALLY hard, the diffuser). This is silver over black

And here on the engine bay walls and the airboxes/induction manifold:



This is black over silver

The ribbon's just another example from the big box of "stuff that might come in handy for modelling one day" that I collect...

HTH,

best regards,
M.