Hello all,
I'm a fairly experienced armor modeler and am familiar with techniques such as priming in dark colors, pre-shading, and post-shading. I've seen many pics online of amazing looking WW2 era ships whose superstructures seem to have been painted using some of those methods. I'm working on a 1/350 Bismarck and am considering priming the entire superstructure in black or a very dark gray before applying the final colors to break up the monotone color and to create a shadow effect in the nooks, underhangs, etc.
Do any of you have any experience with preshading ship models? Will a black or dark gray create a realistic effect without committing overkill? I suppose it's fairly low risk as I can just paint over everything but I'm hoping to avoid layering on more paint than is really necessary.
Thanks for any comments.