I think I am heading in the right direction now. Anyone out there with gloss aircraft experience? I could use a few pointers. I'm thinking I need a lot more little reflections to build up details and shapes and to knock back the hard highlights and thin them down a bit.
GFR, I have it first hand that the bird is actually a very very deep metallic blue. It only shows up under particular lighting. So I have given it just a hint of cyan in the black. I do know that Agusta favour pearl and metallic paints. Mind you, I have trouble seeing the blue in any of the reference photos I have!
Grubby.
