vector123 wrote: |
Well im working on a few 1/35 scale tanks such as a tiger 1 and 2 and a sherman im looking to paint them so there sort of in the battle of the bulge time area and place. Im looking to use putty and to airbrush and freehand it. |
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If Armor is your thing, I'd suggest buying a copy of Modeling Tanks and Military Vehicles by Shepard Paine. Although there are a number of titles out there by a great many talented modelers, Shep's book is probably the best primer for the armor modeler. The others all pretty much build off of the "foundation" Shep wrote. It covers assembly, painting and weathering in concise, easy to understand photos & drawings, and covers the materials you'll need to be familiar with and the tools you want to have...
His other book, How to Build Dioramas, is the gold standard for the diorama builder, covering the models, scratchbuilding, weathering, figure-painting, structures and groundwork, and photographing models. It's a must-have for any modeler library, as well as the above work, and both cover painting and masking and the materials & techniques used...