Military modelling and wargaming forays, from an easily distracted History student... Primarily I focus on 6mm/1:300 and 15-20mm scale Second world war, and 1:35/1:72 Armour, but also dabble in 40k, and 28mm Historical. I also intend to slowly add book reviews of relevant material.
Saturday, 11 January 2014
Of blue tac and Dunkelgelb...
My biggest failing/annoyance as a painter is that I don't have an airbrush. Being an equipment snob, I want a DECENT one, so will wait until I can get something nice, but my lack of said equipment mixed with my massive fondness for late war German armour is a real pain, especially when trying to get that soft camo look.
Either I have to spend hours doing something with a brush that would otherwise take ten minutes, or improvise and have a hard edged camo which has atleast got a smooth coat finish compared to the same effect with a brush.
Basically, I map out the desired camo pattern over the dunkelgelb with blue tac, works a treat, but I might add you need a lot! So in future I might just use this method for my 15mm tanks, as it is much more manageable at that size, with kits this big it takes a while to spread it all out.
Stage 1, both complete kits, dunkelgelb sprayed with Tamiya dark yellow (random note, the pot dark yellow seems to dry a slightly different shade to the spray version....barely noticable, but good to know all the same)
Stage 2...advanced BLUE camouflage over the Tiger ready for its green coat, you can see I've already done the brown.
Stage 3...The Jagdtiger, freshly coated in brown. Just using the standard Tamiya aerosol paints.
Stage 4....Peel away the blue tac to reveal, nice smooth edges and flat finish. Ofc I will have to go around touching up edges with a brush, but much quicker than solely using a brush.
Stage 5....Repeat with the green, and all the base colours are sorted!
One thing that I will say before I forget, throughout doing this I became increasingly aware that I didn't think it through, it would have made more sense to spray the vehicle either brown or green and then do the dunkelgelb last, as that is the larger surface area, would in a way save some tac heh. But quite pleased with how it turned out.
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