Buddho
Edmund~ Your imput is always appreciated and you obsevations are 2nd to none. Likewise I cherish comments like that for all time my friend!!
BoB~ You a great man to have on my team! For sure... Im glad you are getting the most from the entire Blog, I am commiting this one to history for better or worse~~
Buddho~ Sometimes less is more. What a great thing to add, Thanks and it should even keep getting better.
Now thing start to really happen
The AIRBRUSH however, did not seem to be in his toolbox.........
Painting the Tilt
You may remember the 'practice' tarps I made as a quick demo for possible uses of the Milliput tarp technique? I had painted two of them with the chocolate 'pre-shades' just as I did on the truck's cargo-area-covering.
I used them as practice for all the painting steps as well, to work out any color changes or bugs of the process, without risk to my model.The tarp covering stacked equipment(on the left) I used to try to get things to go wrong, testing the limits, as it we're, and the 'thrown-aside' tarp(on the right) I tried to present an example of everything going just right.
The finished tilt-cover, coming up in the next post, is in-between the two, but servicable. It's features we're just a little too complex and folds just a bit too deep for as Ideal a result as the tarp on the right. It is just about what I was after.
As I had made a mess off the example on the left, I evened it out with an over-all darker spray in the end, to "save it", more or less, should I ever decide to use either of these. For now they go into my "painted spares box" which is fattening rapidly!
~~The process is the same for on the model, and is very simple, but not so easy , as it's all freehand airbrush work, and it's a challenge to get a realistic amount of shadow and definition, while not making it look too obvious what you're doing, and so not getting the look of something obviously painted, something I dispise, and will often shy away from a maximum of contrast for this reason, against popular practice.
~~~I mixed five different paint colous from Tamiya jars, and saved them all in small disposable cups with lids. The middle tone was mixed from,XF-49 Khaki,XF-57 Buff, and XF-67 Nato Green. Two progressively darker shades we're made with XF-52 Flat earth & XF-1 Flat Black....and two lighter tints made by adding more Buff & XF-2 Flat White to the first three colours Everything is thinned with 70% alcohol to a whole milk-like viscosity.
~Continued with the main event.....