ep323 - oil paint rendering for aircraft part 6

[@01Sassoon]

Hey, Will... I think your chatter and content are great !! It makes the videos feel personal and friendly. And, yes, I would put you in the same league as Martin and Mike Rinaldi !!

[@kudukilla]

What I consider a great Friday is when I get 3 new videos that begin with “What’s up gangsters” “Shut up compressor” and “Mah frends”

[@James-cf8xd]

haha dayum right muh gangster

[@sidnzrael2433]

"Yammering!?" Brilliant, Informative as ever. Great introduction too, with your answers to mail...Simple...just skip forward...But I often rewind too. Having a resource, studying what one sees, trying to understand some principles (physics) and transferring to the story being told by the Artist's brush. You do so well Mr Will P. From far down under, thankyou.

[@jcgabis4962]

Awe YES! Exhaust stacks… I don’t know how much I have contemplated the colors. Looking at my car exhaust, my new lawnmower’s exhaust. Looking at black and white pics. ??? So much Philosophy to it. “Led” how rusty? Thanks so much all ways look forward to seeing your videos! JC : )

[@jonfoisy1237]

I'm glad you hammered that guy. I really enjoy watching your channel.

[@georgetaylor5482]

Nothing beats a through explanation, keep it up

[@kennethcampbell1962]

Will, well said sir... don’t like the way I do MY channel... fuck off and watch someone else !!! Me I love listening and watching your work. I find the way you explain whatever your doing you respect us dummies who don’t understand the BIG words 😉😂 and go out of your way to make sure you get your point across so we understand where your coming from!!! Truly outstanding and I’m sure I’m not the only one who appreciates the time and effort you put into your channel. Unless you have edited a video you can’t imagine the time it takes to put together a 30-45 minute video... hours off editing, considering what is useful and what’s not then making sure it flows. I’d just like to say thank you for your time and effort you put into your channel, it IS worth it and YOU are appreciated by so many people!!! All the very best to you, Kenny 😁👍🏻👏👏

[@voodoonights1671]

Great work Will and thanks for the work. It's videos like this that drive us to doing better.

[@lexjassies3388]

Following your videos for a couple of years now and picked up some very usable tips and tricks. This episode I saw you wrestling trying to get the right color for the exhausts. Maybe I'm telling you something you already discovered yourself now. You showed that the color of the exhaust was almost white. Been a professional painter for many years I know that it's nearly impossible to lighten a dark color to almost white unless you trow in a whole lot of white. So it works reversed, you start with white and add little bits of color. And for the mixing tool. Maybe you have them already but Pallet knives are there in many types and shapes and mostly very cheap. I use them all the time when mixing oil paints. Keep up the good work (y)

[@Duececoupe]

I'm still here and subscribed after 5+ years, still enjoy your videos and your content like when I first started following you, from the smallest and insignificant (it may seem) detail to the finished model....I totally agree, "What's up gangsters", "Mah friends" are signs of top quality research and modelling videos! You're right up there with Nightshift and Rinaldi.... Keep up the phenomenal and inspiring work ya gangster! 😉

[@Duececoupe]

Oh bugger, I need to top up my coffee, a sign of a good and long video! 😉😆😂

[@johnwoodside8714]

I've found your narratives helpful, interesting and seriously enjoyable. Change nothing, it ain't broken. Keep the content coming Will, it's awesome

[@brandtall9639]

Love the research and photos. Effecting the weathering to a level that works for that period of aircraft is difficult. Really has the look Will.

[@xaviercarcopino5417]

Love your videos. Do not change a bit! Many thanks+++

[@andy242headhunter]

You just made my day, telling that guy where to go.😂

[@MrPeterson74]

14 year AT here. Been around Naval aircraft for a long time. I can say without any shred of doubt, that yes, our aircraft got dirty. Granted we were also meticulous about cleaning them when the time came to do so. Lots of turco wash downs of all surfaces sucked up a lot of time at sea. BUT, during ops, they got dirty. VERY dirty.

[@graemejohnston3116]

haha, I agree with the dude you shot down, you do have a lot of verbage sometimes before you get to the point, but man there is a lot of good stuff in amongst all that babble, little snippets of info that we may not have got otherwise. I am one of the thumbs up gang, excellent series have watched them all and learned a lot so keep it up please.

[@MrPDoff]

Will your style is great so no. Dont change. As for BoB airplanes they use to get shot up quite a lot so it is a good opportunity to add different colour patches, where they would have done some quick repairss

[@sayeager5559]

I'm just here for the verbage. Thanks for taking the time to show your process.

[@RaduB.]

I am here just to be counted into the 99% positive comments. I'm always happy to find out that you've just posted a new 45-60min. video. :-) This series is epic!

[@timothykronser1341]

Regarding the "yammering " comments, I couldn't agree with your response more. Watch what works for you. Personally, I very much enjoy your content. I will watch your videos even if on a subject that isn't my thing. Still manage to find something I can use. Thanks, and look forward to future videos.

[@gartsherriejunction4643]

Good for you will. Thanks for fighting back at the one A-hole intent on spoiling our enjoyment. Rock on and don't stop what you do. Just love your channel and your mastery of the english language. Cheers. Mike

[@UlsterScott]

I thoroughly enjoy your excessive verbiage. It merely indicates your passion for our hobby. I always learn something from.

[@Flingwing24]

Fucking myself now oh master🤣. Don't waste the flies Will....Extra protein 😁 Weathering is relative (wish I could get it right but my results hold, I just want better....keep trying) Our aircraft spent a lot of time down low hovering in re circulation, they eject oil (and a bit of fuel) they create soot and it all sticks. Then the cleaning compounds take away some dirt and not all. If radial engines don't have oily bellies they are in a museum. Our Beaver ejected a gallon an hour and the one in the museum that left Laos in the 70s...Still leaks. It's all relative as cleaning is part of servicing but flying through crap...sticks Nice one Will, I need to watch from the start🤪 PS...lead staining....lots miss it going under the wing on the lanc outer engines outboard stack because of the airflow. Glad someone pointed that out👍

[@Boeing_hitsquad]

LOL that mixed message to the right LMAO

[@messer1096]

Great video. I'm not one to spend too much time on a model, enough to bother with that level of accuracy and detail, but very interesting.

[@StudioLaMagica]

Wow wow wow... I'm still at episode 2. I guess I have to start a Pattison Binge Night... 😅

[@raz562]

I agree with the chattering comment, BUT, it’s quality content and it’s free. I will gladly pay a little more attention for this information you provide. + I fully agree with your stand point, if someone genuinely don’t like the way you talk, they can walk away

[@robertclassicconstructiona1830]

As always a great video , precise and informative , screw whoever doesn't like it , as maybe they aren't long enough, lol.......cuz I'm sure you went over it I tried to find it but what's the reason you don't need to let the oils leach out of the paint , you just use them right out of the tube, doesn't the oil screw with the paint? Apologies for the stupid question..

[@houndmux3010]

As usual, great video! I agree it is impressive how much you can talk without your vocal cords overheating and as much as I'd prefer to learn all your stuff in a 5-minute-video, it's simply impossible to compress all that wisdom. I have wasted so much time watching technique videos where authors just told me what I already knew only to create just some more content. When I then tried it, it never worked as simple in the videos, making me want to disband the whole technique. But your scientific approach, detailled explanations and real-time application videos make a hughe difference. Often it's that little lack of detail knowledge about chemistry or those seemingly unimportant application details which make the difference between a good and a bad day. Watching you slap the brush around often opened my eyes and I felt like an idiot when I realized why what I tried never worked as planned although I _basically_ did it right. Watching your videos may be exhausting at times, but you saved me so much time and frustration by getting a better understanding of what's going on. It helped me avoid typical mistakes and motivated me to try new stuff. Keep your professional approach, you're doing us a hughe favor! There are still enough kindergarten-style videos for those without patience.

[@michaelstrange4885]

Good on you Will, telling him to fuck off was far too polite for my liking, keep up the great content however which way you want to verbalise it!! Those exhaust stacks look fantastic coincidentally doing a 1/32 spitfire at the moment using the same reference photo so your oil work will be extremely valuable!

[@andysmith6711]

Will, you didn't mention in this video, but I'm assuming you started the stacks with a bronze base, right? I know you mentioned that in an earlier video.

[@barpfoto]

yessir!

[@InSidious1805]

How dare you elaborate. Who needs details when discussing the nature of weathering on heavy machinery. Haha I’m from Texas, I can listen to this all day. Keep up the good work! If you want to improve you have to be willing to listen not use tiktok brain. I just finished a bf109 e3 in 1/72 and did a Spanish civil war version. Based on historical research that aircraft got little action as it was introduced towards the end of the conflict. However when I look at photos, while I can’t make out a ton of grease and filth, I see that these things were parked and taxing on what appear to be dirt roads. I used your techniques and did some dirt on the bottom in a pinkish red with light dust. I like the look personally even if it might be “inaccurate”. Which brings me to my next point of rant: accuracy has limitations in this hobby by virtue of scale and lack of references. Idk just my thoughts.

[@brianc1701]

And that filthy Hornet is the CAG's bird!

[@andysmith6711]

There's a "comfort Zone" with using oils that can only be achieved by starting and working though the process. Every time I see Will start applying oils, my mind tells me "Oh s&%t, that's waaayyy too much paint! He screwed the moose on this one". But after all the blending and the thinning and the texturing, it turns out great. I just have to learn to be patient enough to work through the whole process. And like Will says, if you don't like it, just wipe it off and do it again.

[@franklinlewis6059]

You're doing it right.

[@manostroulinos1726]

Very interesting as always Will, many thanks. I'd like to try that detailed process in a 1/48 scale exhaust and see if it's worth it. Amazing result though. One comment regarding the colour (or coloured) photo of the aircraft you are using as reference. I agree with you that it looks like a natural colour photo of that era, rather than a colorised one. Two points: there is a significant shift towards the blue/magenta of the greens and the reds, which was very often the case with the Kodachrome film, widely used at that time. If it were colorised later, most likely the greens (olive drab etc.) would be more green/olive rather than what we see as bluish or purplish blue-green, as the retouchers always try to be close to "reality". (check for example: generalaviationnews.com/2018/03/08/kodachrome-captured-world-war-ii-color/ ). Second point, when you bring the photo close to the camera to show us the dirt on the wheels, a significant amount of purple fringing is visible on many areas of the plane's profile. This is a characteristic (like a defect) of a camera lens (it is present even in modern lenses), and obviously cannot exist in a black & white photo (as it would not be recorded in a non-colour film). Unless the retoucher placed it there on purpose, which would be very unlikely - unless it was meant to deceive us in the first place :-) :-) So of course we may never know for sure, but it seems very likely to be an authentic WW2 colour photo (maybe shot with Kodachrome film).

[@barpfoto]

great point. i never considered chromatic aberration as a forensic tool.

[@Lllllllllllllllllllllllllltyyy]

…oils coalescing is my fetish 😮‍💨

[@charlesforbin6937]

Comment...."I Really like what you do....I just don't like how you look, your face, your crooked fingers gettin the way, what you say, how you say it, what you do or how you do it to get there". signed YOUR BIGGEST FAN.......

[@barpfoto]

hey these things happen. i can at least respect the honesty.

[@willthorson4543]

Probably the oldest excuse/lie in modeling aircraft. Wear and tear. Ground crew didn't care about how dirty or beat up an aircraft got, it's all about the mission and keeping that aircraft air worthy. Just like military vehicles. And no matter how many pictures in full color you show, or video proof, those guys will always make an excuse. Not people that can't or don't finish aircraft a specific way, but those that can't and bitch. Oh well...it goes on and on.