For this shield I'm using many different painting techniques. One of my favorite paint products is Alclad. It gives the metal parts of the shield shine! Below I explain each step and technique I've used so far.
1. This is the back of the shield. The wood texture was done with a Dremel (I wanted an aged worn wood texture) and the handles are made of leather, wood, and metal.
2. I stenciled out the various pieces onto the foam to keep the raw foam surface underneath the paint so that I wouldn’t have to grind it away later and so that the parts could be glued to it later. The texture you see is achieved with Black Lava. This is used to texture the base of the shield to give it that eroded, nasty look. It will also be applied to the metal parts to give them a pitted and corroded feel/look.
3. The rim of the entire shield has been soaked with Smooth-On 65D to give it a “shell”. This makes it hard enough to be sanded smooth, textured, and eventually coated with Alclad to give it that real metal look.
4. Newspaper is your friend. To isolate the edge for painting, the center was covered with newspaper. The edge of the shield was painted black to give it a nice base for the Alclad paint.
5 & 6. After it was painted I went back in with the Black Lava into the recessed areas to create the texture previously mentioned.
7. I went in with masking tape (not pictured) and covered the detailed design I drew on, so the pieces with adhere nicely. The center was painted with a base blue color with spray paint.
8. To get this shine I went in with an airbrush and Alclad gloss base and then Alclad Chrome paint. It has a much more realistic metal finish than average spray paint or any other products that I have tried.
9. I went in and carefully peeled the masking tape off of the center and kaboom! We have our base colors.
2. I stenciled out the various pieces onto the foam to keep the raw foam surface underneath the paint so that I wouldn’t have to grind it away later and so that the parts could be glued to it later. The texture you see is achieved with Black Lava. This is used to texture the base of the shield to give it that eroded, nasty look. It will also be applied to the metal parts to give them a pitted and corroded feel/look.
3. The rim of the entire shield has been soaked with Smooth-On 65D to give it a “shell”. This makes it hard enough to be sanded smooth, textured, and eventually coated with Alclad to give it that real metal look.
4. Newspaper is your friend. To isolate the edge for painting, the center was covered with newspaper. The edge of the shield was painted black to give it a nice base for the Alclad paint.
5 & 6. After it was painted I went back in with the Black Lava into the recessed areas to create the texture previously mentioned.
7. I went in with masking tape (not pictured) and covered the detailed design I drew on, so the pieces with adhere nicely. The center was painted with a base blue color with spray paint.
8. To get this shine I went in with an airbrush and Alclad gloss base and then Alclad Chrome paint. It has a much more realistic metal finish than average spray paint or any other products that I have tried.
9. I went in and carefully peeled the masking tape off of the center and kaboom! We have our base colors.
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