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[Supah]

Looking VERY good grubby! Those little buggers must be driving you crazy at times

[GrubbyFingers]

(murmers quietly to himself ... wockawockawockawockawocka ...)

[GrubbyFingers]

I've done some work on the engine cover now.

I'm just not sure about the body shading. It's all looking a bit grey. I might try redoing the basic shape shading and making it stronger at the edges.

[AGNT_Matt]

wow keep it up grubs, that mesh looks nice, whats the secret

[santynus]

Wow... great work GrubbyFingers
very nice details

[GrubbyFingers]

Aha! The Secret of the Mesh! Whenever I am faced with something I haven't done before, or I'm having trouble working out, I go back to reality. (Sometimes that is a long trip.) The mesh is a separate layer that has the appropriate shape filled with a transparent pattern. In fact there are two layers with pattern filled shapes. The upper one has a coloured pattern and the one below has a black pattern, offset slightly, to give it some depth, effectively a drop shadow.

It took a few goes and a fair bit of thought, but I got a result I am happy with.

[AGNT_Matt]

aah so thats how you do it, many thanks for that!

[SunDog]

I'm just not sure about the body shading. It's all looking a bit grey.

Hi Grubby, Try and change the shading from using Black or Grey to different shades of Yellow, you will get a much cleaner look without any greying.


Shading with Black/Grey.


Shading with Different shades of Yellow.

Just use 1 or 2 layers Overlay and use Opacity too get the required effect.

[GrubbyFingers]

Thanks, SunDog. I'll try that.

If I use other colours for shading, I could also add an adjustment layer to change their hue on different schemes!

[GrubbyFingers]

A bit more progress. I've got the tail rotors on and some of the boom detail sorted out.

I haven't tried the hued shading yet, Sundog. Maybe tomorrow!