Thanks for the comments guys, really kind of you.
Now back to the tutorial, and the fun begins, Paint!
4. In my opinons, its not so much the assembly that makes the model look good, but the painting and the finishing, and it all starts underneath. A black undercoat is applied thought the model, (especially at the bottom, this is where the light touches the less, and shadow is found the most. Also it helps to darken the tone of the next coat of paint, (as well as for the Pre-shade). I decided to use my Badger 350 possibly for the last time on this coat.
It is also a good way of finding missing errors on the model, note the hole on the front is completely gone.
5. Now comes the Base coat, Dark yellow (desert yellow will do too), but I'm out of that color, so I'll just mix some up with brown, buff and flat yellow. Tamiya acrylics are easy to work with.
I'm also excited to use my new Airbrush, Badger 175 dual action, this is a good airbrush for more advance models like myself, thought its alittle harder to get use to the dual switch (one controls airflow, the other is paint flow). So I practice a bit with it, to see how it works.
It works Fantastically, flow is smooth and control is simple, the trick I fine is don't rush, and stay in control of your flow, its easy to screw up with this thought.
I though that for a base coat like this it would be good to go high pressure, high paint at a distance. (don't come close, the paint builds up fast) but actually for pre shading, your suppose to avoid the panel lines so the black under coat shows alittle, and with less airflow and paint flow. So I other words I put alittle too much paint all around the model.
Another Small problem is the Model has the wrong skin texture called ''Orange Peele'' (called this
surface and creates this texture, is not a screw up (not for a tank anyways steel sheet is not smooth) but if
this was a Chevrolet Camero, I would not be happy.
6. Now for the Camouflage which for this tank is not a problem, it was never made, so it never had an assign camo scheme. I mean, I could follow the paint instruction from the kit (it comes with two) however, I like to be creative, and I want to make something that makes this tank stand out from my collection, so I will got with the larger spot camo scheme.
First come the green. (a mix of green and a touch of olive drap to darken it alittle)
Then, slightly smaller brown spots over the green, kind of little a bulleye. This brown mix is flat brown, and a drop of hull red for a red brown look.
Note I remove the paint on the barrel, it would have been red primer on instead (Red Hull).
Well I think thats all for now, I will be posting the next steps soon, my only recommendation is to make sure you apply right the first time, I think I need a bit of touch ups on certain spot, also, avoid thick coat of paint, remember, its better to apply several thin coat rather than one tick coat. This is why I hate lacquer spay paint, it always adds too much, plus its stinks.
Next time, finishing painting, and adding the decals.