It's too cold for me to use my airbrush and compressor in the work area in my house where I usually paint. Brrr!
So this forces me to use rattle cans to paint my Panther for the group build-up. Advantages: 1) the Panther I am building is all-yellow anyway; 2) dispensing with all the ritual of getting ready and then cleaning up. Disadvantages: 1) color limitations, 2) poor application of paint compared to the control of an airbrush, 3) inability to get certain effects an airbrush allows.
Anyway, there it is! Any suggestions on methods or colors? I have a can of Tamiya dark yellow anyway. I have the Eduard masks for early panther wheels, so I will problably shoot the wheels dark grey (for the tires -- I usually mix my own, and make it very, very dark grey), put the tire masks on, then paint the wheels the dark yellow.
My local hobby shop has a decent selection of colors, so any ideas on a tire color (I mean specific brands and colors)? Another thing is that I won't be able to shoot the dust on the tank. Drybrushing?
My thought now is to put the yellow on the tank (am back and forth on whether to blackprime first -- my gut is telling me no, because the paint will be going on thicker than I am accustomed to), then give it a few washes, then a highlight drybrush, then put some crud on.
Ideas? How am I going to blacken the muzzle? Aren't there folks who use pastels for that?