discussion Starting to paint the old Spitfire.

[Junkers12]

Good evening all I just finished pre shading my Spitfire, and I also painted the bottom of the plane. This is my first time to do pre shading. I was watching Brett Green pre shading a ME-109 and I thought I would give it a try. If anyone can give some advice that would be appreciated. Thanks

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[stona]

Aaaah - to preshade or not to preshade? that is the question. It is very much a personal choice. I rarely preshade now as I find I have more control post shading and,more importantly, depending on the angle of view and lighting the preshading would either be invisible or too stark. I have tried preshading using a darker tone of the colour and this gives a subtler effect. For example under a sand brown colour I preshaded dark earth. Under azure blue I applied a darker blue. It's each to their own but I think you can achieve the relevant shading post application. You need to be more carefull when post shading than when preshading and also subtler! The biggest advantage of preshading is that if you don't like the result you can cover it up. It has been a very fashionable technique in recent years along with the over emphasis of panel lines. I often see lovely models that look like a patchwork quilt. On real aircraft panel lines are usually barely visible and that look is not to my taste. Everyone should do their models to their taste,however,not mine!

Steve