October 04 2009 | The ground's undercoat

this pictures shows all about under painting and trying to plan water effects with hastily cut piece of paper
the paint is various Vallejo roughly applied with a brush, a 20mn long job.

October 04 2009 | Undercoat of the inner part of the hull

I have been gluing directly the hull section on the base because it will be better for me to plan shadows when really painting the base.
I first airbrushed some black/ dark brown undercoat..

October 04 2009 |

And then I painted with my wet on wet technique: some water is getting brushed on the right place then alternative and blend brush strokes of either brownish red or black paint, and when the stuff begins to dry some black or dark brown pigments..

October 04 2009 | Wet on wet

And then I painted with my wet on wet technique: some water is getting brushed on the right place then alternative and blend brush strokes of either brownish red or black paint, and when the stuff begins to dry some black or dark brown pigments..

October 04 2009 | Fire traces

So well, here are some extra fire traces on the outside, those are painted in a much clearer tint than the interior of the fuselage. Plenty of pigments fixed with paint too.

October 04 2009 | Extra browning

The extra browning gets the same treatment

October 04 2009 | Oil painting with hobby colour paints

Ah, that's me trying to paint just like I would do with oils with those hobby colour paints, it's errr, very hard to obtain, but eventually settle down in a most satisfactory way once I rub it with a dry brush.

October 04 2009 |

let's start to paint the ground. NO drybrush, NEVER drybrush anything! that's some sort of wet on wet technique. I see here and there some guys that say you have to seal the plaster with white glue or paint or whatever, nope I say, if you do that you just wipe out plaster striong point : it *drinks* paint  More on that another day.