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Hi
Is there any way to bring out raised panel lines on an already camouflage painted spitfire?
Thanx
Itz
There are a couple of ways I can think of.
First, you can airbrush over the raised lines with either Tamiya smoke or a darkened shade of the base color of the spitfire. Just be sure to build it up slowly.
Second, if you have already applied a flat finish to it you can take a very fine brush and apply a thin oil wash over the panel lines. In this case the oil wash will stain the flat finish a bit. Again, be sure to take it slowly building it up in thin layers.
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what I do is preshade along the panel lines/prime in a dark color, paint the camo, the lightly buff with steel wool to remove the top color off the raised details, showing the darker color underneath. I did this exact technique on my P40 to highlight the rivet detail that's all over the kit
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Now that I'm here, where am I??
He said he already painted the model so pre-shading isn't an option.
Fly-n-hi He said he already painted the model so pre-shading isn't an option.
aye, but if he builds another raised-line kit in the future it helps. He could still do it (light buffing) on this model as well. He did not say if he preshaded or not, and there were no photos posted. If he preshaded this model it could work.
One thing you might look into are artist markers. These are permanent markers in a huge array of shades, many in both fine & broad tips. Just grazing over the top of the line.
Something like these: http://www.dickblick.com/categories/markers/#designandillustrationmarkers .
Reid
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I have seen a few folks occasionally enhance raised panel lines by running a very sharp pencil along the raised panel lines (black pencil, of course).
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
I've just noticed that Tamiya have just brought out a Panel Line accent color which looking at may be of use as it looks very thin.
Hope that helps
Phil
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