Cheques

[henrywalker]

Hi All

 

I'm painting up my Imperial knights at the moment and id like to do a chequed black and white shoulder guard.

 

I need it to have good sharp straight lines or it will just look a mess.

 

Any one done that sorry of thing before able to give me some tips?

 

At the moment I'm thinking cut nice neat squares of masking tape and just masking out the whole pattern but that sends very time consuming

 

Thanks

[Aeternus]

Rather than doing single squares of tape, maybe spray the white base colour, use strips of tape in lines in rows and columns, spray black, then take the tape off. Just have to make sure the tape won't take the paint off with it. But strips in a crosshatch pattern will work a lot better (and be faster) than squares, in my opinion.

[henrywalker]

That won't end up with a chequed pattern though will it? More a white grid with black squares

[Chmur]

There's no easy way to do this with Airbrush/spray. Coat it white, then take sharp pencil, mark the checkerboard as you want to have it, then detail brush and fill it out with black. While this sounds as more tedious work, trust me, in the end it's the easier way to go about it.

[Aeternus]

That won't end up with a chequed pattern though will it? More a white grid with black squares

Having done a check on paper, you are right, my apologies. You could then fill in individual squares in the middle of every four other colour to create the checkerboard pattern. But yeah, by then pencil might just be easier.