Thursday, June 19, 2025

Painting the driver

 

Sometimes, several of these posts are generated in a single modelling session. But not this one. 

Painting the driver took place over a series of evenings. Nice little, fun jobs that  I was able to keep working on, even after a busy day in front of a screen. 

His head is separate, and supplied in two halves. I used my usual trick of painting his skin with Humbrol flesh, and the dry-brushing with Revell's version.At this scale, picking out his eyes wasn't hard, he's even got pupils from a 0.3mm Rotaring pen. 

The helmet was painted white, masked, and then painted Signal red. I should have used narrower tape, as the masking wasn't perfect. Some narrow Trimline tape hid the worst niggles though, and a generous coat of matt varnish will hold it all in place.  

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