Ideas On Duplicating Welds from YouTube

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This is not my original idea, credit is due to Ryan Townsend at Berserk Custom Paint

The question comes up every now and then about how to duplicate welds on the surface of a model. While watching this video for a customer's project it hit me that this technique could be used to duplicate weld beads on a model. Just by reducing the size of the applicator used to lay the weld beads, the rest could either be done by airbrush or carefully layed down with a paintbrush.

Watch it and see what you think, haven't tried it yet but it looks like it could work with a little practice.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PTTILRcMtlw

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Daves Kustom Paint & Body does faux welds in a different way, scaled down it might be something as simple as dipping the end of a round toothpick into silver paint and layering the dots. Need to try this out and play with it.

Sometimes the art of illusion is the easiest solution, after all how much would a weld bead stick up from the surface of the metal? Think about it, a 1/8" weld bead scales out to 0.005" which is pretty doable with paint alone. Another way it could be done to give it more height would be using a toothpick dipped in glazing putty overlapping the dots like a stack of dimes.

Take a look and see what you come up with

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a444T3X8NHg Part 1

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V5R--SM-n_U Part 2