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All good, let's remember, artists have been creating perfectly smooth gradations of colour with hairy sticks for centuries, and, if you look at recent photo-realist paintings, you'll see that they bear close inspection and have NO brush strokes! Hell, I've even seen it done with coloured pencils
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Having said this, blending paints to form a smooth gradation will be so much trickier with any acrylics, as the damn things dry so quickly, even with retarder! Not impossible, just a technique that will take some time to learn, and a long time to master. Personally, I'm not sure that modulation is what you need on an AFV, rather post shading or oil paint rendering, which is a really effective way of 'modulating' a surface for light, shade, wear etc.Comment
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Very true about artists creating those effects over centuries, except I'm no artist
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Yeah I think post shading is the way it will have to be. I've done a full base coat on the Stug IV and have slightly lightened the dark yellow basecoat with buff to give a lighter shade on top surfaces and panels. I know next will be the gloss coat but after I'm not sure where to start. I have AK Dark Yellow wash, which at the time when I bought it I swore it said filter but nevermind and I also have a black and sephia wash left over. Not sure wether to coat the tank in the dark yellow wash or not...Comment
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I have found if you apply a dark yellow wash over red brown and green it will give the paint a slightly natural washed out faded effect, it is also good for bringing all the colours together.Comment
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You can always thin it further, then it essentially is a filter. Apply one coat and see if you like the effect (I'd be amazed if you don't) these washes are so thin, you are unlikely to ruin it, and can always apply more. I've come around to the conclusion that every model is an experiment! If I like an effect, I usually make notes for future reference, as there are many stages in painting, and easy to miss one out!
Very true about artists creating those effects over centuries, except I'm no artist haha
Yeah I think post shading is the way it will have to be. I've done a full base coat on the Stug IV and have slightly lightened the dark yellow basecoat with buff to give a lighter shade on top surfaces and panels. I know next will be the gloss coat but after I'm not sure where to start. I have AK Dark Yellow wash, which at the time when I bought it I swore it said filter but nevermind and I also have a black and sephia wash left over. Not sure wether to coat the tank in the dark yellow wash or not...Comment
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