Originally posted by FTJR
another shot.... hmmmm needs some work doesn't it.. Comments on how I might correct it? Thanks
It looks like you have a solid color for all parts of the fuselage. To make it truly look metal, you can't use just 1 color.
There are countless ways of making it look more like metal (it seems to be a very subjective art). The basic run-down is that you use lighter colors on the parts that would be glaring, and darker colors on the lower surfaces.
You're basically painting on the sun glare. How you get there depends on how you do it. For example, however, in that screenshot you need to take a narrow band in the middle of the wing, from the cockpit to the wingtip, and make it lighter in color. Use new layers so you can start over if you don't like it.
Do the same for the fuselage.
This is the hard part with bare metal skins. I just finished my first, as well, and ran into this same problem.