Il-2M3 Shturmovik (Tamiya, 1:72)

[KarlW]

Thank you Karl! It is an imposing bird for sure and was lucky enough to actually see it flying in 2019 at MAKS.

Don't often get jealous but.......

[InFlames]

The bottom was painted with AMT-7 Light Blue (Mr.Paint) and shaded with lighter tones, making a combination of blackbasing and postshading so to speak.

[papa 695]

Cracking work so far Seb, looking very good indeed.

[Geoffers]

Very nice Seb :thumb2:

Just catching up with your build, I really like the cockpit and the underside paint looks spot on.

Geoff.

[InFlames]

Thank you very much!

[InFlames]

As I always paint from lightest to darkest colour, the AMT-1 Light Brown was the obvious choice. Again mottling over the black base with added different brown and light sandy tones to achieve the faded used paint effect.

[adt70hk]

Cracking work Seb. Only just started using black-basing myself but love the effect it achieves.

Keep your great work.

Andrew

[Guest]

As I always paint from lightest to darkest colour

I find that statement slightly odd, given you started with a black base coat “Start with the lightest colour” is good advice over a light base (because then you probably won’t have issues with the paint not covering that underneath well enough), but when the model is black I kind of think doing it the other way would be better?

[InFlames]

I find that statement slightly odd, given you started with a black base coat :smiling3: “Start with the lightest colour” is good advice over a light base (because then you probably won’t have issues with the paint not covering that underneath well enough), but when the model is black I kind of think doing it the other way would be better?

actually the reason for it is the light feathered overspray. doing it light to dark, you get much better looking feathered edge than the other way around.

[rtfoe]

actually the reason for it is the light feathered overspray. doing it light to dark, you get much better looking feathered edge than the other way around.

Yup...that works for me even for my illustration days...less dustier effect.

Cheers,
Richard

[InFlames]

AMT-4 Green added - starting to look like a real deal now!

[Tim Marlow]

AMT-4 Green added - starting to look like a real deal now!

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Looking really good Seb

[InFlames]

By painting the AMT-12 Dark Grey, the basic camo painting is complete. I really like how the paint job turned out!

[Tim Marlow]

Looks really fine doesn’t it. Quite a bruiser of an aircraft.

[colin m]

This is looking quite nice. Good work Seb.