How to make the Cessna 172's spinner metallic?

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Re: How to make the Cessna 172's spinner metallic?

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Looking better I think. Although, this time it is reflecting concrete and not grass.
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Re: How to make the Cessna 172's spinner metallic?

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This is how my full metal one is looking now. The spinner was derived using the same technique.
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As a side project, I've been trying out possible silver finishes. Ready for when the Spitfire goes PBR. Right guys? ...GUYS?

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Looking good! You willing to share your techniques when you're satisfied?

thanks!

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HA! I'm never satisfied. The key to polished metal is in having the polished parts yellow in the 'metallic' texture, while having a very light grey in the alpha. Non-polished parts should be pure green and darker or black in the alpha. From my experiments, silver seems to be a mixture of that. The silver parts need to be more a mix of green and yellow. The darker the parts in the alpha the less of a sheen they seem to have.

The results can be seen in those two skins I did. I've probably finished with the shiny metallic one but will experiment further with the silver. Both are on my site to download for further study. That's the best way I have found, is to look and see what's doing what by trial and error.

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Loving the redone 172 repaint :shock: :shock: :shock: Beautiful!

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Lewis - A2A wrote: 13 Apr 2020, 10:32 Loving the redone 172 repaint :shock: :shock: :shock: Beautiful!
Thanks Lewis.

Yeah. Silver looks better than ever now. More proper innit. Can't wait to apply it to some of my Spitfires. :wink:

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proper propa now bruv brapt brapt my old mans a dustman, bananas got no bones etc etc etc :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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