Recently I painted a couple of new backdrops and thought they might be of interest on this site.
My backdrops are made from white foam board and painted with enamel model paints, the foam board for the small backdrop was bought from a local Wal-Mart for a few dollars, the large foam board sheet for the larger backdrop was harder to get and had to be special ordered from an art supply shop and was about $30.00.
The very first step in painting my backdrops was painting the base coat for the sky, in this case I used a rattle can of Testors sky blue paint and was the easiest part of this project.
Near the bottom of this pic you can see the can of spray paint, this will give you an idea of the size of the larger backdrop.
Next up was adding the happy little clouds, this was done using my airbrush.
Here I started adding some trees...
...and here is the finished large backdrop.
Below is the finished small backdrop (no in-progress pics were taken of this one)
And here are some test pics of the backdrops posed with my photobase and some older models, first the large backdrop
...and the small backdrop with a 1/72 scale model posed in front.
Here is the airbrush used for almost all the painting, the simple Iwata Revolution BR, an airbrush that can do almost anything.
Matrixone
My backdrops are made from white foam board and painted with enamel model paints, the foam board for the small backdrop was bought from a local Wal-Mart for a few dollars, the large foam board sheet for the larger backdrop was harder to get and had to be special ordered from an art supply shop and was about $30.00.
The very first step in painting my backdrops was painting the base coat for the sky, in this case I used a rattle can of Testors sky blue paint and was the easiest part of this project.
Near the bottom of this pic you can see the can of spray paint, this will give you an idea of the size of the larger backdrop.
Next up was adding the happy little clouds, this was done using my airbrush.
Here I started adding some trees...
...and here is the finished large backdrop.
Below is the finished small backdrop (no in-progress pics were taken of this one)
And here are some test pics of the backdrops posed with my photobase and some older models, first the large backdrop
...and the small backdrop with a 1/72 scale model posed in front.
Here is the airbrush used for almost all the painting, the simple Iwata Revolution BR, an airbrush that can do almost anything.
Matrixone
beautiful artwork Matrix!!
