Originally Posted by
Darth Lefty
Perhaps given all the model car paint stuff, DD will forgive me for revealing that you can fake carbon fiber by starting with solid black and spraying metallic graphite paint through a mask of shelf liner. I learned this as an airbrush trick for R/C car bodies (where you do the masked graphite first).
He's right, you know
However, I'm lazy these days and plump for correspondingly-scaled CF decal sheets. These, used in conjunction with Micro Sol and Micro Set decal solutions really add to the realism of anything 1/20th scale or larger.
Once I'm done with this project, it's back to my current build: a Tameo superkit of Niki Lauda's 1975 Championship-winning Ferrari 312T - in 1/43rd scale.
DD