A daily updated blog typed by someone with painty hands, oil under his fingernails and the smell of solder in his nostrils who likes making all sort of models and miniatures. And fixing things.
Saturday, April 18, 2015
An unexpectedly difficult livery
I've a 009 Society RNAD van on the workbench for review. Having built the kit, I thought it wold be nice to paint and weather it for final photos. The pictures in the instructions show a simple livery of grey woodwork with black ironwork.
Simple?
The grey is easy. Quick squirt of primer does the job. The metalwork though - it's so fine. My first efforts with a brush were horribly wobbly. The only hope of getting a reasonable result was to use a bow pen, bumping over the moulded bolt heads. Even then, as you can see, it's still far from perfect. Hopefully, a wash of dirt will improve matters.
And another handy hint. Use paint not primer for the grey. That way you can touch it up afterwards with a brush.
Here's a thought.. (NO idea if this would work!) .. When painting some WW2 war-games figures, someone suggested a base coat of the webbing colour, then filling in the uniform around it. It actually worked really well, and saved a lot of fiddly painting of tiny straps etc. I wonder if that could work here? i.e. Spray it black, then fill in the woodwork grey afterwards?
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