Help With 1/5 Scale Model Details

[James Shiels]

Hey everyone,

I have a 1/5 scale model being delievered from Shanghai in the next few days. The model quality is overall great - considering the complexity - but is missing a couple of detail colors that I believe are very necessary. The model should be here within the week, and my final thesis presentation is on May 8th, so Ill have a couple of days to address the issues. I wanted to post this in here to get some ideas from a crowd more familiar with model making. Here are the shots of the full model just to give an idea.

 

 

The main issue is the lack of detail on the rear trailing arm suspension components. 

Here are the details as I designed them:

Here are the same components as done by the modelers:

 

I dont think I will be able to completely recreate my designed CMF, but my goal is to get a little bit more material break up between these components. For example,  the shock tower that is built into the rear trailing arm is printed in all one color - this dark rubber color - whereas the circled parts above should actually be a metallic silver just to break up the soft spring rubber with the more hard mechanical parts. 

My intial instinct is to go with some chrome tape to address the details and just break up the materials more? I think hand painting is maybe too time consuming and I risk ruining the model completely. I have a bit of time so I just wanted to reach out here to see if anyone had ideas. 

If im in the wrong forum and you know of a better place for this question just let me know.

Thanks for the help!

 

PS. This is my graduate thesis project so please do not share elsewhere

 

 

[mad mike]

You might try Bare Metal Foil for details, it's often talked about here on the forum. Chrome tape might be too stiff imho. Good luck with your thesis!

[stitchdup]

is there a tabletop gaming club at your school? for games like warhammer or simlar fantasy games that use models? it could be worth asking those guys for a little help. they paint their own models, use a lot of metal tones and being a school theres most likely a club. good luck, your design looks pretty cool