Multiple drybrush colors?

What is the name and where can you get the Paul Boyer book you are refering to?

In JM Vallalba's book (Aircraft Modelling Step by Step, which I highly recommend) the technique he uses is to paint the base color, airbrush a highly thinned black wash, then dry brush with the bas color again. I haven't tried it yet but plan to on my next 109. The color photos of the results in his book look great.

Building and Displaying Scale Model Aircraft by Paul Boyer

You can get it off Amazon.com

Thanks Johnrov.

johnrov, now that I think about it, I don't think you would want to use yellow on the hurricane. I'm doing a Spitfire Vb, and I did the Brit Interior green, then did a wash with raw sienna, and finally dry brushed with int green again slightly lightened with a few drops of white. I was pretty pleased with the result, and the guys at the hobby shop have complimented it as well. As far as the silver, that should work fine, I'm just not sure I would dry brush it. Instead, you might want to try a silver paint pen so it looks more like where the paint has chipped off.

Cool, I'll give that a try. This is only my second model since I got back into it and I am experimenting with all the different techniques. How about the instrument guages? Do you drybrush them to raise the details? That's what I started to do and it's looking pretty good so far (I'm taking it very slowly).

I've heard of people doing that with good results. On the Spit, I used the Eduard photoetch stuff, and glued the film for the gauges to the back of the PE console (which I had previously painted flat black), then after I had it all glued up, I carefully added a drop or two of clear gloss coat (I'm sure Future would work as well) to each gauge to simulate the glass. I loved the results, and will probably keep using this technique on everything going forward.

BTW, the Spit is my first since coming back to the hobby after about a 20 year lay off. So I'm right there with you on learning the new techniques. Many of these techniques didn't even exist 20 years ago....