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I have been doing a bit more experimenting with the airbrush.  I bought a Revell snap together kit of a UNSC pelican from Halo.  My plan is to use it as a scenery piece however it’s technically out of scale, being closer to 15mm.  However because it’s not actually going to be a UNSC Pelican dropship, it’s just a generic aircraft, size doesn’t matter  so much.  So I decided to mask out the cockpit with a reflective effect similar to that seen on the F22.  To do this without masking the canopy frame I masked the outside and painted the inside.  To get the effect you simply paint the layers on in reverse, starting with an orange tint with two slightly more concentrated spots, followed by a layer of silver and then a layer of gold.  I’m quite pleased with the result.  As you can see from the picture, with the cockpit interior obscured it scales quite nicely with the Human Interface miniatures – which lean towards the larger side of things and on average arw slightly larger than Infinity miniatures in scale

The rest of the vehicle I am going to paint in a similar colour scheme to the SSV Normandy off Mass Effect –  black underside and white topside with some details picked out in red.