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Cyberpunk Car
Recognize that emoticon head? Hopefully not...
My second attempt at a custom paint-job (sorry for the poor detail quality again). I'm going for a LED-array mask sorta look. My first try at this using a color gradient to black looked a lot better but I realized that Lego is limited to specific colors. They have to use thatching and dot-arrays to create gradients, and I can only think of a few parts in which even those are used (one is actually the purple torso here which uses cross-thatching to add wear to the look without including a new color to print).
So my second attempt used black dots over even-sized dark-red dots to obscure them and force a gradient. Since this is not my final attempt, you can assume I was unhappy with the result.
My third attempt (pictured) shrinks the dots as you move away from the lit portion. This keeps the LED-array look while also adjusting effective brightness. I believe I was able to keep the dots large enough to be printable so I likely won't do a fourth iteration with this specific design. The look may come out better with blue or green though.
Oh, and look, my first minifigure-scaled (ish) car!
Cyberpunk Car
Recognize that emoticon head? Hopefully not...
My second attempt at a custom paint-job (sorry for the poor detail quality again). I'm going for a LED-array mask sorta look. My first try at this using a color gradient to black looked a lot better but I realized that Lego is limited to specific colors. They have to use thatching and dot-arrays to create gradients, and I can only think of a few parts in which even those are used (one is actually the purple torso here which uses cross-thatching to add wear to the look without including a new color to print).
So my second attempt used black dots over even-sized dark-red dots to obscure them and force a gradient. Since this is not my final attempt, you can assume I was unhappy with the result.
My third attempt (pictured) shrinks the dots as you move away from the lit portion. This keeps the LED-array look while also adjusting effective brightness. I believe I was able to keep the dots large enough to be printable so I likely won't do a fourth iteration with this specific design. The look may come out better with blue or green though.
Oh, and look, my first minifigure-scaled (ish) car!