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Advice on painting
Posted by TheMongoose on Tuesday, November 8, 2016 8:18 PM

so this is the first armor I've worked on. Ive gotten some advice to get this far and wanted to see if there were some techniques i should use when painting the camo and finishing the model. I airbrushed the basecoat on and now I'm doing the 2 color camo. Basecoat is 988 khaki. 1st camo color on is the 882 middlestone, and next is the 889 olive drab. All Valejo.

I'm brushing on the camo colors to try and make it more realistic to the time. Using a fine tipped brush and wondering if this looks right/ok or if I should try something different? Take a look below and let me know what you would recommend. Once the camo is done id love some advice on weathering.

 

Box art

 

In the pattern: Scale Shipyard's 1/48 Balao Class Sub! leaning out the list...NOT! Ha, added to it again - Viper MkVii, 1/32 THUD & F-15J plus a weekend madness build!

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Wednesday, November 9, 2016 7:40 AM

You paintwork looks good to me. Maybe just hit her with a gloss or semi-gloss overcoat and then a pin wash. Or maybe a sludge wash, I'm not sure which would be better for that scale and picking out those zillion teeny-tiny rivets would be a royal pain. 

And remember she's probably have mud smeared all up the sides and I think the tracks would carry it up and dump it down as well. You'd be well off finding some good photos on the internet and using them for reference. 

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

  • Member since
    January 2015
Posted by TheMongoose on Wednesday, November 9, 2016 8:21 PM

Ok, I continued with this method. Thanks for the confidence builder  I used a fine brush. Here's how it turned out. Tomorrow i will clear coat it and put on the decals. Then do some "mudding"!

In the pattern: Scale Shipyard's 1/48 Balao Class Sub! leaning out the list...NOT! Ha, added to it again - Viper MkVii, 1/32 THUD & F-15J plus a weekend madness build!

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Thursday, November 10, 2016 11:31 AM

The paint looks good. I don't know much about Great War tanks but the brushwork came out really well. 

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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