Excellent article on stressed skin

[arc01]

There's a wealth of how to articles on his website but this one is about stressed skin, the best I've come across. Here you go folks:

http://www.ratomodel.../stressed_skin/

And here are the rest of the articles:

http://www.ratomodeling.com/index_articles.html

Edited January 18, 2014 by arc01

[Ace Combat Zero]

That's a lot of info. Thanks for sharing

[fool on the hill]

It would be interesting to see this effect included in the original mold. "with accurate stressed skin effect"

[Crazy Snap Captain]

I remember someone was doing a 1/32 Mudhen on the WIP forums and was trying to replicate the stressed skin effect. I can't remember who it was though.

[chuck540z3]

I remember someone was doing a 1/32 Mudhen on the WIP forums and was trying to replicate the stressed skin effect. I can't remember who it was though.

It was Guy (geedubelyer). If there's one skilled modeler who can pull it off, it's him. I'd be scared of creating something that just didn't look right for scale. A lot of these stress marks can only be seen with high contrast side lighting, so it might look "funny" and maybe over the top on a model. Guy's work so far was looking very, very promising, so maybe I might eventually give it a whirl myself one day.

[FluffyK]

Yep. Stressed skin and a bare metal finish. For when you feel you haven't had enough punishment lately.