I'm in the midst of restoring an attack and wish to enhance the saucers.Has anyone painted,airbrushed the saucers on their attack. I would love to see some pics.
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Thank TeeKee, I need ideas on what to do with mine. I like the black rails. Just picked my rails up today. I'm going Black Attack. just not sure what to do with these saucers.
Quoted from vid1900:Paint away!
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I had my air brushed. The look wind swept with black so it looks like smoke. The natural gray looks nice with it.
Quoted from teekee:Chris painted mine and they turned out great!
http://christopherhutchins.com/gallery/album382/43_G?full=1
That's very nice.
Quoted from teekee:Chris painted mine and they turned out great!
That is not paint .
I believe a good number of people have reported using Model Master Metalizer on them, and that is what I used as well. Here's a link to show what the can looks like, but I got mine from a local hobby shop.
http://www.modelcars.com/model-master-metalizer-lacquer-titanium-spray.html
The one major complaint is that it is pretty fragile, even after dry. You can't use tape to mask it, and they recommend handling with cotton gloves to avoid leaving permanent fingerprints. I haven't found it to be a problem, though.
Here's a decent picture of how mine turned out, but they look more metallic in person.
slide2.jpgLightly sanded, use Krylon for primer, gun metal to metallic silver fade, then clear coated.
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Nice work Peer, very cool.
Quoted from Skypilot:Peer, What was the technique used?
If you are going with gloss black trim, how about doing black chromed ships? Plastic chroming is pricy, but it does look sweet 
in the process of doing mine as soon as the weather breaks. testing krylon colorshift galaxy and duplicolor mirage to see what i prefer. have some glitter spray that i tested but its way too overkill, but the light overspray that is in the colorshift test patch does look really good...
Black by definition is the absensence of light. By base coating in black it gives you a solid background to build on. It ads a depth to it. When you give body to something, you make it solid, not in structure but in appearance.
Peer, did you airbrush those legs yourself? Those are awesome! Exactly what I was thinking legs with stars and outer space stuff. But those are better than I could even imagine.
Skypilot, I like both but the silver with the black panels are what I would go with. Very cool stuff in this thread.
Silver with black looks better than the other way around but both look like hubcaps to me. I prefer one color with some accents.
Mt Martha
Quoted from Miniflipper:Peer, did you airbrush those legs yourself? Those are awesome! Exactly what I was thinking legs with stars and outer space stuff. But those are better than I could even imagine.
The woman that airbrushd the Matrix did the leggs for my AFM.
I'm not finished with the AFM.
Still a lot to do
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going all the way Peer ? 
http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/laseriffic-tilt-toppers-presents-afm-a-3d-collaboration-topper
I say make them each a little different. Do you have the ability to make them look like they have taken a laser blast? That would be cool!
Quoted from LOTR_breath:That lock down bar looks amazing!
Ditto.
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