This was a quite fast and easy repaint for a friend of mine (half an hour prior to a gaming session), to bring it more in line with the Neb-B and the Corvette.
Still, I think the result looks way better than the out-of-the-box-AFmk2.
It was quite easy to do so, all I have done is painting the bright parts with a bone-white and inking the whole frigate with a waterered down dark brown ink.
A simple but very effective upgrade in the paint job!
That looks fantastic in terms of blending in.
One quick thought for you, given you are already done with the washing, is to hit the very highest areas of the bone-white with bone-white again as some mild highlights.
For instance, in your first picture, in the panel pretty much dead in the middle of the picture with the raised component that has the straight-diagonal-straight undercut, you can see the shading exceptionally well, but the top line blurs in with the rest of the frigate. A single, narrow line highlight could pick that out very well, which will also make the shade look even better.
Did that make any sense or am I spewing jibberish?
Thank you for your c&c. I understood it, but the paint job was meant as a really quick blend-in. The goal was to have a working time below 30 minutes, highlights require time, which I was not willing to invest, as the rest of the fleet is without highlights as well.
I will be doing another AFmk2 (when the german publisher manages to get his job done and publishes it, no critics to FFG), and this will be a bigger paint job, even bigger than my Orca, but I will be doing the same base colour as I did with this one.
Thank you for your c&c. I understood it, but the paint job was meant as a really quick blend-in. The goal was to have a working time below 30 minutes, highlights require time, which I was not willing to invest, as the rest of the fleet is without highlights as well.
I will be doing another AFmk2 (when the german publisher manages to get his job done and publishes it, no critics to FFG), and this will be a bigger paint job, even bigger than my Orca, but I will be doing the same base colour as I did with this one.
Ah, that totally makes sense, then. I was unaware of the time constraint (as I paint at the speed of an even slower than average three-toed sloth, so 30 minutes for me probably means I've shaken the wash a few times and just got the brush out); for 30 min, that looks fantastic.
Well done.