Airfix 1/35 M3 Stuart 'Honey'

[Si Benson]

Nowt wrong with that Steve and as long as your happy with it even better :smiling4:

Getting to grips with the airbrush can be tricky…practice makes perfect I reckon and I quite often practice on a sheet of scrap paper making lines or shapes and colouring them in.

[Guest]

I agree with Si on the air brush use. I still find I miss bits .
Think the pre shading is fine, certainly gives the right impression . Getting the right amount of paint on will improve each time you do this, were always learning as we go .:thumb2::thumb2::thumb2:

[Tim Marlow]

Looks good to me Steve. As Si says, practice, practice, practice, it’s the only thing that works. One way to practice your aim is to print off a couple of child’s colouring in sheets and colour them in, trying to stay inside the lines. You need to build up muscle memory in your technique and practice is the only way you can do this.

[Lee Drennen]

Nice results Steve. I’ve never pre-shade guess I’m going have to try it.

[Jim R]

Looks good to me. A technique that is not easy.

[Guest]

Okay I think I might have overstepped my skill here. I loved the pre-shading look and went a bit further, tried to add a 2nd colour . ..it didn't come out too well.
it wiped out the pre-shading so I was in a panic. I then tried to add some white to the green and spray in some shading. it kind of worked a little. but cock ups are the
best way of learning I guess. More work on it tomorrow if I have the time.

[Guest]

Looking pretty good to me.

Look on the bright side: now you’ve tried both methods of highlighting panels — pre-shading and spraying the highlights after I prefer the second, because I find it difficult to spray paint so it doesn’t cover well over a large area. So by spraying the model in a single colour first, and then adding highlights with a paler version, like you did for the second colour, I can spray covering layers and have models that don’t look too much like toys

What I’m trying to get at is: it’s good to try both ways, to see which one you prefer.

[Tworrs]

The result! Yes it's messy, yes it's not accurate, yes some bits should have been covered better and I have shading in the wrong places but you know what, I'm quite happy with the result of this for my first try at pre-shading!

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I'd be happy with that Steve.

[Tim Marlow]

Looking pretty good to me.

Look on the bright side: now you’ve tried both methods of highlighting panels — pre-shading and spraying the highlights after :smiling3: I prefer the second, because I find it difficult to spray paint so it doesn’t cover well over a large area. So by spraying the model in a single colour first, and then adding highlights with a paler version, like you did for the second colour, I can spray covering layers and have models that don’t look too much like toys

What I’m trying to get at is: it’s good to try both ways, to see which one you prefer.

Good points there from Jakko. Also bear in mind that some colours are very opaque and are not really suited to the preshade technique. It’s therefore useful to have both in your armoury. To be honest I use both in most of my builds because I like the surface variation it gives.

Yours looks really good so far, so keep going with it :thumb2:

[HAWKERHUNTER]

That is going to look fine when complete Steve. It looks like you still ahave the brown camo to apply around the turret sides but I think you have done a great job. Keep plodding on.

[Guest]

That is going to look fine when complete Steve. It looks like you still ahave the brown camo to apply around the turret sides but I think you have done a great job. Keep plodding on.

I'm not going to add that. why? because I don't like the look of it, yes a dumb emotional reason but still i'm being honest.

[Guest]

Bit of dirtying.. I'm still learning when it comes to this.

[Jim R]

Looks fine to me Steve. Jakko makes a very good point. Preshading only works if your airbrush skills are good, you are not spraying a very opaque colour, as Tim said, and you don't have a camo scheme with multiple colours. I have tried preshading quite a few times and obliterated it much more often than I've got it to work.
You have to try things out. We are all learning.

[Guest]

Okay I've gone a bit crazy but here she is..

[Mark1]

Nice job steve :thumb2: