An unorthadox request

[speedbird666]

Hello,
sorry I am new here so unsure if this is the correct forum. I am a student from the UK (fairly drunk I am afraid) and I am trying to build a model space shuttle out of cardboard and water bottles for a party we are having (space themed) in a few days time. So far I have constructed the orbiter out of a pizza box, used PVA glue and tissue paper (it worked for the hurricane, right?) to cover the frame, and used tinfoil for the windows, control services and heat shielding. The Fuel tank is a 2litre of coke, covered in PVA and tissue, painted orange, and the SRBs are small vimto bottles, covered in tinfoil. All well so good, I hear you cry. The problem is the matt white tissue paper and tinfoil look terrible together, the shades are too close, and it all kind of disolves into one on the orbiter. I was wondering if anyone on this fine forum had any advice on how to differentiate the two colours on the orbiter so that the windows/surfaces/shield are more delineated on the orbiter. I'll atatch a picture bellow if I am able. I'll put a post on brittmodeler as well when they finally aprove my posting rights, I promise I will donate a fiver to the first site to give me a solution that I can do on a student budget by friday haha. Exam procrastination. pictures to follow if this site allows.

[speedbird666]

I hope I have done this correctly, this is an iphone image of the three parts of the shuttle, the tinfoil looks alright under the camera, but IRL it is indistinguishable from the white fuselage!

[Joker56]

Maybe use a fine line marker as edge between the two different surfaces

[Vleugelmoer]

the srb's are actually white and the heat shield blackish gray color on the real ones. That being said a quick respray or dable of paint once you are also dried up should sort out any contrast issues..

[speedbird666]

the srb's are actually white and the heat shield blackish gray color on the real ones. That being said a quick respray or dable of paint once you are also dried up should sort out any contrast issues..

Ah yeah, probably didn't make it that clear in my inebriation, but it's gonna be hanging from the ceiling as a decoration, and was thrown together from kitchen scraps over a few beers so it's not entirely accurate! I've mixed some silver into the white to give it more of a slightly metallic-y off white finish...waiting for it to dry to see if it's made a difference, definitely gonna go over the lines with a sharpie as well, cheers!

[TheTroyster]

id say stick to working the drinking angle, since most teacher's drink, there is a bribe factor you can leverage in there (with enough beer) to get that "A" - worked for me all the way through graduate school.