nightshiftmodeller

Stowage (well, most of it)

Added 2021-06-10 08:25:52 +0000 UTC

My friends, painting tarps and stowage must be the most relaxing thing in the world! 😁 Interesting plot twist when we consider a year or so ago it was all stowage phobia.

The only downside is that it sometimes takes ridiculous amounts of time. As an example, the small red tarp on the fender took 40 minutes to paint... yeah, puts things into perspective!

But it's a very liberating process because you can mess around with any paint mixture you can imagine - adding grey into green, highlighting one tarp with Buff, the other with Deck Tan, etc.

Here's one interesting technique which was recommended to me by Mark, a member: using the darkest shadow color as a base coat for the whole thing. It's faster and easier because from that point you're just making the whole thing lighter and you don't need to lay down the middle "base" tone, then a few layers of shadows and finally some highlights. This way you lay down the darkest shadow and then just make everything "not shadowed" lighter. It sometimes requires you to have a clear idea about the result, but in others it's very easy - you can for example use Russian Uniform or German Field Grey as a base color because they're very dark.

I need to finish the remaining pieces such as the jerry can and cooler box on the rear fender and then blend the stowage with the tank using oils - with stains and other effects, especially the super clean mantlet dust shroud needs some weathering!