I bought a tube of burnt umber thinking I was going to give it an old-school weathering treatment but I soon discovered that my artists oil paint was in fact acrylic, and it was now too late to back off so it's been 6 hours of slow and painstaking weathering with acrylics - but I do think it worked out in the end?!
I did start with the lower hull to get some practise and if I failed it wouldn't show so much. Let's not forget that this project has been plagued from the beginning...
This scale model is too big to use
Tamiya panel liners, that's why I decided to use oil paint. The acrylic oil paint that is...
I'm going to use slightly less burned umber on the upper hull and I've now got the experience to make a better job.
This is the first time ever I'm using this method and I've still very much have got the learner plates on when it comes to paint and weathering department! I do believe in learn by doing and after having the confidence booster from the paint job, that I have to say that I'm rather proud of as my first ever masked splinter camo, I decided to put in the effort by doing a totally manual weathering job and not just rely on ready mixed panel liners etc.
I've only used burned umber - and a tiny bit of sponge chipping effect around the landing gear hatches, so there's a lot of weathering still to do. I might do some general washes or filters but I think I will use those products sparingly because you can ruin a paint job very quickly when doing too much weathering. I'm very junior in this department so better use too little than too much!
I might start the upper hull tonight but when using acrylic "artists paint" you have to finish everything in the same sitting, otherwise it'd dried and you can blend it with water any longer. As it is now I do a couple of lines then I dry brush them and finish with brushing them with water. If I'm please with the results I make a couple more lines, otherwise I paint over the lines again and do the same process until I'm happy.
I had problems with the
decals too and one simply "fell apart" and had to be discarded
I've made the surface on the model rather rough, or dull, since my experience with military vehicles is that they all have the same surface texture as an old black board we used to draw on in school. Very coarse texture. This I've pulled off well but it made it harder to move the
decals after placing them, even with decal medium under. Lesson learned I guess.
Anyhow, here's tonight's progress!
Cheers