Thanks for all the encouragement. I've been asked about the hammered cowling, so like many of the successes I've had. This is yet another one that I backed into blind and just had it work out for the best.
This photo was my inspiration for the effect. It is a prop up for a book or letter, I can only assume it was from some typing pool somewhere. I've been using it to prop up my instructions while I build. You can see it just in use in the engine photos. So after I got disgusted with the job I was doing I pulled the instructions off the stand and noticed the stand and said that's the effect I'm looking for. So then I tried painting with my acrylic metallic paints on the stand. I wasn't making it look any worse but the texture was already underneath in the hammered effect so I was just applying paint over top. So then I transferred this effect to the cowl.
1. Basecoat gloss black
2. Alclad dark aluminum
3. Squiggles added as per WNW website using gunze acrylic silver with a brush.
4. Using a very coarse sponge and some finer sponges I sponged on various shades of metals like model master metalizers dark anodidic grey, titanium, gun metal etc, and some other alclad colours.
5. Then a heavy coat of future, actually too heavy and too shiny. I'll need to dial it back some.
Good luck
