Lesson 17º

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE CAMOUFLAGE (1)

 

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.

 

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