The primer
acts as a base coat. Once we have checked that everything is ok, we
can start shading the lines onto the panels, in the following way:
- Mark
every one of the panel lines with the colour back XF-1 (painting
on top of the primer XF-23)
- Now
we are going to prime again using the base colour. You will notice
that the sky blue paint covers the dark lines, leaving some shadows
where the black lines were. We continue now with the camouflage.
We must
remember when it comes to painting the camouflage that we must paint
from light to dark, given that the darkest will look good against
the lightest, contrast is good and you will need to paint a few times
to succeed in such a variety of colours.
The camouflate
that the Stuka used (although it did depend on the type of operations
it was carrying out) was fundamentaly sky blue XF-23, dark green XF-61
and black green XF-27 (all of the references refer to Tamiya paints).
Given that there is not a great difference between dark green and
black green, what we will do is lighten the black green with white
XF-2.
Following
instructions we are going to draw the camouflage lines, using masking
tape to paint around. As I have already indicated the second colour
needs to be XF-61 (dark green lightened with a bit of white).
The dark
green has covered the lines on the panels. As you can see in the following
photo the areas that should be black green XF-27 need to be painted
black again. Subsequently the black green will give the result that
we had at the beginning: you will only see a few shadows on the lines
in the panels. Once we have painted the second colour, take another
look at the instructions, we are now going to mark out the spots for
the black green. (XF-27).
You need
to be careful not only when making the panel lines but also when doing
the camouflage. You have to be patient, it is a tough task.