Nice job Santino!
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Looks good so far Santy! One thing you might want to try, and it does complicate things, you might need different shading for your painted parts and bare metal parts. I'm sure anyone here working on bare metal aircraft has found some way to solve this problem. Maybe something as simple as a mask layer set at a percentage for the high key highlights where they go over the markings and other painted parts? Just enough to take some of the shine down?
It's a nice solid looking profile
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The solution I've found to this is, I believe, rather straightforward. I start the plane in 50% grey and shade it as if it were completely painted. I then create a group of layers I call "metal base" which is much more reflective and contains all of the metal work. Once that is done, I create another group of layers ("Colours") were I put whatever has been painted over the metal (antiglare panel, markings, etc...).
The result is that the metallic and painted part don't have the same lighting and reflective properties. It's quite simple to use. Another advantage is that I can apply a mask to the "colours" group and use it for paint chipping. This makes it possible to have the metal showing in certain parts.
It's certainly not the only way, but it's a simple one that works for me. I've attached a sample psd file, which will probably explain it better than I can...
(On this P-47D-25 template, I flattened the "metal base" group because the filesize was going wild, but the principle is still the same. The metal group is already very reflective, and anything painted on top of that will only have "normal" lighting applied to it.)
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